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Cacti Filling Frames<\/h5>\n

Okay, so this is maybe cheating a little bit because this is not a pic<\/em> of the day, it is three pics of the day<\/em> rolled into one. Sort of. I took these images seconds apart, without moving more than a step and a half turn. There is is a display of native cacti just below the Terrace Restaurant at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. The sun had gone behind a momentary cloud\u2026just enough, and just long enough, to provide some filtration for these shots\u2026a softening of the light that brought out the patterns. The first two were shot at about 180mm equivalent for framing. The third was taken from the same spot, but I zoomed up to almost 300mm equivalent to frame a slightly more distant clump. They form a kind of triptych study of the way light interacts with these spiny shapes.<\/p>\n

Sony DSC H50 at 180mm and 300mm equivalents. F4, F3.5, F4 @ 1\/125th, 1\/60th, 1\/40th @ ISO 100. Programmed auto.<\/p>\n

Punch and Sharpen Landscape presets in Lightroom. >> Clarity and > Vibrance. <\/p>\n

And here they are, actually arranged as a classical triptych panel. <\/p>\n

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