December 5, 2013 - Nutcracker - a photo on Flickriver

December 5, 2013 - Nutcracker

            We put the tree up the other day.  Its one of those gloriously fake white plastic things, but it looks nice once it has all the ornaments on it.  I've managed to collect a  pretty decent collection of wooden nutcracker ornaments (kid friendly!) over the years, and they make a nice contrast against the white.

I believe I stopped the lens down into the 'Macro Zone' (seriously, that's what its called on the lens) for this shot a notch or two, so I'm surprised it came out as sharp as it did.  Usually this lens devolves into 'early 1980's soft focus portrait glow mode' if you stray too far into the realm of macro shooting with the thing.  Its a very interesting effect, but it's not always exactly something that's desired.  I'm sure before the Single In for this month is up I'll have a few shots taken that way simply because its part of what the lens does, and I'll have to stray into that crazy area at least once for propriety's sake.

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Taken on: December 5, 2013

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Auto Sears 135mm f/2.8 Macro

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