G3 - Other subjects

There was not much else apart from clouds/sunsets and close-ups of invertebrates and flowers/buds/seed pods. Hardly anything by way of water droplets. These are about the sum total of what else I found during the trawl.

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In the garden

At a local nature reserve

Just outside our garden. Captured from the back door.

In our garden

In our garden

Probably in our garden

The Red Arrows performing over the estuary.
Not a good camera for this sort of subject - focusing was much too slow.

G3 - Clouds and water

I think my enthusiasm had waned for cloudscapes and sunsets. I came across far fewer than in the earlier periods. Here are some of the few that I did find. The wide ones are multi-image panoramas.

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At a local cove.

From the bedroom window

G3 - Botanical

I enjoyed using the G3 and the 45-200/45-175 telezooms for botanical subjects, with and without the Canon 500D, in our garden and at the local nature reserves. At the time I was pleased with some of the results (and still am) and felt I was getting images that pleased me more, more often, than with the bridge cameras. However, there are lots of factors playing into this and I didn't do any like for like comparisons so I can't be sure how much the camera had to do with it. 

Only the first of these used flash.

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G3 - Invertebrate series

If a subject is around long enough I often move in and out taking photos at different magnifications, and choose two or three at different magnifications to display. If the subject is moving around, or doing something interesting, like blowing a bubble or grooming itself, I keep photographing it and can sometimes create series of images. Here are three mini-series I spotted while going through the G3 images, all of the same subject. They are presented here as animated gifs to illustrate the series but were presented at the time as individual images. (I think I might make a bit more use of animated gifs for presentation purposes.)

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G3 - Invertebrates in context

A lot of people like close-up/macros to be really close in, showing fine detail on the subject. My preference leans in the opposite direction. I generally go no closer than filling the frame with the subject, and I don't do that very often. On the other hand I do like moving back a bit and give some idea of the subject in its context. Some of these were deliberately "artistic", using larger apertures than available with the S3is and SX10. The second, third, fifth and last but one of these are examples of that. Often though I used minimum aperture even for environmental shots like these, which was the case for the other six of these. 

Only the two spiders were captured in our garden.  The others were captured at local nature reserves. All but two of these used available light.

G3 - Aperture variations

I could get the same maximum depth of field with the G3 as with the SX10 and S3is by using minimum apertures, but I could get shallower depth of field with the G3 because of the larger apertures it made available, even with a f/4 to f/5.6 telezoom. I enjoyed exploring the effect of different apertures, including, for invertebrates, having the subject small in the frame so I could alter the look of the background while still having the subject in focus. The following three examples are presented here as animated gifs to make the differences stand out, but at the time they were presented as separate images of my then normal size.

The last of these really could do with some localised shadow lifting on the subject, but as with the other examples in these posts the images are presented as they were processed at the time.

All three used available light.

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I certainly did similar aperture variations with with botanical subjects in later periods, and I imagine I did in this period, but I did not notice any examples as I was looking through the images from this period.

G3 - Invertebrates

During this period I mainly produced images that were 900 pixels high. All the G3 examples in this and the following posts have been upsized to 1000 pixels high using AI Gigapixel.

Three of these were captured in our garden, the others at local nature reserves. They all used available light.

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This is one of my all time favourites. Captured in our garden