Experimenting with light, texture and bokeh

**Wicked Dark** · 08-01-2011, 12:16 PM

So a friend of mine and I went to a new location for us on Great Bay in NH, a Nature Conservancy preserve called Lubberland Creek (I know, what were they thinking?). I wasn't after a sunrise since the sun is really in the wrong position, but I knew it was a tidal marsh and wanted sun in grass and boy did we get it. Also got a new location that should give us good sunsets when the earth moves a bit.

before the sun crested -

after -

and some close ups in the direct sun -

If you have your Sherlock Holmes hat on, you'll notice the difference in the bokeh in those last two shots. The first was done with my 80s vintage OM 65-200 zoom on its close-focus setting, the second was done with my normal digital Olympus 12-60mm. The differences are kind of interesting and that was partly what I was playing with that morning. I'll see if one of the shots depicting the area is ok and post it. I really didn't take many, I was too entranced with the dewy grass.