beautiful things: Wow!!!!

May 2010

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Wow!!!!

Ok, more eye candy...

Yup, it's Seasons FSM (which arrived a few weeks ago), taken with my new DSLR on my new desk at home, in it's new location by a window! It's a pretty grey day today but the sun was peeking in for a short while earlier this afternoon and I figured I'd take advantage of it.

The set up is not completely ideal as it's more back lit than side lit - I took a few side lit shots but there's not much space to get in at that angle, and my zoom lens requires me to be 3 feet away.

But wow, yeah. Gorgeous yarn, gorgeous camera, and a better set up than before. What more could a girl ask for?! (Maybe actually knitting with some of this yarn?!.... shhhh....!)

First the basics, here are the four seasons:

From left to right: flaming flamingo (summer), sugar plum (spring), life aquatic (winter) and carmel apple (autumn). I ordered an extra skein of spring, hoping that would be my favorite, and it is! I'm thinking of a lovely spring tempest (ravelry, pattern) without the stripes. Carmel apple seems to be the least popular on the ravelry boards and I can see why. It's a beautiful color but I think you need a certain skin tone for it to look good. Not sure yet what I'm going to do with it or the others but I've been abstaining from the flurry of trading that followed the recent Sundara shipments. If I do trade, I want to be looking for something specific, for a specific project, which I'm not right now, otherwise it's just too hard to figure out I think.

The straight stash shots (ie for ravelry) are definitely an improvement but not particularly exciting. One of the things I've really wanted a DSLR for is to get those lovely depth of field shots I'm always so envious of where only things at a particular distance are in focus and everything else is blurry. Today I broke out the manual (which I have been carefully reading through) and broke out of auto mode to play with depth of field settings. For example, here on the left we have f5.6 and on the right, f36.0. (I don't know if you can really tell the difference at a small size but when they are large, it's a lot more obvious.)

That last photo on the right had a shutter speed of 8 seconds!

Those last two were also shot using the extra lens my husband got me (have I mentioned again how impressed I am with the research he did?!) I had to step way back to get 3' away so that it would even focus but to me, this is where the fun really is!