Ray's Thought for the Day - The Daffodil
It was my turn to use Rayetta’s camera. Hard pressed to find a subject, I chose a daffodil because the CB has daffodils, and had no electropictoids of those daffodils. On daffodils, the distance from the front of the corolla tube to the sepals or tepals or whatever you want to call them is two centimeters or a little better. So depth of field, getting the front of the corolla tube and the whatevers in focus simultaneously, but still getting yourself a closeup might be hard for a person like me.
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Purely by chance I got to use Rayetta’s 70-300mm because that was the lens on the camera and Rayetta will not allow me to change lenses by myself. So desiring a closeup with the entire inflorescence in focus, I backed off a ways. Seizing a 3- gallon bucket I set the camera on that. Then, utilizing Live Mode A, I focused on a likely daffodil, this daffodil. This daffodil is surprisingly, pretty much all in focus.
But now I want a bean bag. If I had a simple bean bag I could sit it on the 3-gallon. Then I could set the camera on the bean bag. That combination, 3-gallon plus bean bag, would surely provide a rock solid platform.
Now I am fretting over what variety of bean to use in the bean bag. I can not bring myself to waste a delicious bean, like the pinto, on a beanbag. No sir. I need a bean variety that I would be unlikely to empty out of my bean bag and consume in a pinch. There are a couple of bean varieties that I would be unlikely to consume even if I was starving, limas for sure and those nasty little white ones. Those nasty little white ones may be called navy beans. Uhg! I bet navy beans are the ideal bean bag bean, nearly inedible, and with a low surface to volume ratio.
OK. I have decided on my bean bag bean variety. Now I need to fret over the bag. But no more fretting for the nonce. It is time for my delicious cinnamon bun. Two weeks to the day have elapsed since I had my last delicious cinnamon bun. Once I eat up my delicious cinnamon bun, I shall resume fretting over the bag.
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Purely by chance I got to use Rayetta’s 70-300mm because that was the lens on the camera and Rayetta will not allow me to change lenses by myself. So desiring a closeup with the entire inflorescence in focus, I backed off a ways. Seizing a 3- gallon bucket I set the camera on that. Then, utilizing Live Mode A, I focused on a likely daffodil, this daffodil. This daffodil is surprisingly, pretty much all in focus. But now I want a bean bag. If I had a simple bean bag I could sit it on the 3-gallon. Then I could set the camera on the bean bag. That combination, 3-gallon plus bean bag, would surely provide a rock solid platform.
Now I am fretting over what variety of bean to use in the bean bag. I can not bring myself to waste a delicious bean, like the pinto, on a beanbag. No sir. I need a bean variety that I would be unlikely to empty out of my bean bag and consume in a pinch. There are a couple of bean varieties that I would be unlikely to consume even if I was starving, limas for sure and those nasty little white ones. Those nasty little white ones may be called navy beans. Uhg! I bet navy beans are the ideal bean bag bean, nearly inedible, and with a low surface to volume ratio.
OK. I have decided on my bean bag bean variety. Now I need to fret over the bag. But no more fretting for the nonce. It is time for my delicious cinnamon bun. Two weeks to the day have elapsed since I had my last delicious cinnamon bun. Once I eat up my delicious cinnamon bun, I shall resume fretting over the bag.
posted by ray pistrum at Saturday, February 23, 2008
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