Most days my camera and I get along fine.
Some days — and today was one — we don’t. This usually happens when I’m in macro mode.
After the storm ended I went out to shoot raindrops. It did not go well.
No matter what I did, the camera refused to focus. Sigh. Thoughts of trading up to a DSLR flash through my mind.
Okay, I said, we’ll do it your way. I let the camera decide. If it wouldn’t focus I’d take the shot anyway. (Two can play this game.)
The outcome? None of the photos were in focus.
But to my utter surprise, I love them. Instead of predicable sun-shining-on-raindrops, the photos spoke another language of shape and subtle colour. Other worldly. Always there, seldom seen.
Sometimes the best way out of a predicament is to re-focus your expectations.
The Lens and I 
But still looks interesting
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I thought so too! Sometimes surprising things happen when you last expect them.
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Pretty. Macro is a fav of mine and too.
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I too had such shots. I deleted them 😀
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One of the beauties of digital!
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🙂 🙂
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These are very interesting, especially the one with the worm! Like them. I have an Olympus E-PM1 Mini which sometimes refuses to focus, too. So annoying.
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Hi SnowSomewhere … I found a solution to the focussing problem that seems to work 90-95% of the time. I put my finger alongside the object I want to focus on, at the same distance from the lens, and focus on that. Bingo! The camera focuses, I remove my finger and take the shot. My camera and I are happy together again. 🙂
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Hahaha 😊 I’ll try that, thanks!
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🙂 🙂
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These are great! I love their unfocused edges and splashes of colour. Great advice about refocusing your expectations…that is one for me to remember.
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Thanks, Chez … focus frustration drove me think outside the camera 🙂
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