{"id":3275,"date":"2010-04-07T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T01:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2010-04-07T13:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T03:11:08","slug":"panasonic-gh-1-with-leica-d-25mm-f1-4-on-a-quick-forest-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic GH-1 with Leica-D 25mm f\/1.4 on a quick forest walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Easter Monday, I thought i would check out a local forest which was hand planted some 100 years ago in central Victorian highlands which makes it rather unique in Australia as it is mainly trees from northern hemisphere origin.<\/p>\n

I had never been to this forest before and as it was a beautiful sunny early Autumn day, it would be great for a walk, but probably too sunny for great photographic forest landscape shots.<\/p>\n

I only had an hour or so, so I took my beloved Panasonic GH-1 and Leica-D 25mm f\/1.4 lens with the primary aim just to document ideas for shots in better lighting and when I had more time.<\/p>\n

In stark contrast to native Australian Eucalypt forests, this man made forest of diversified trees including conifers, and oaks, had a very different ecology – most noticeable were the multitude of introduced mushroom species including the poisonous, hallucinogenic, Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)<\/strong> and the very weird absence of the usually omnipresent Australian native bull ant<\/strong> – which I must say made the walking a lot more relaxed, as no-one enjoys being stung by those ants!<\/p>\n

Maybe the bull ants are killed by the Amanita, or they need Eucalypt habitat?<\/p>\n

The flip out swivel LCD screen of the GH-1 was fantastic<\/strong> as usual for ground level work of hand held shots of mushrooms – the following two are at the closest focus of this lens and show the difference between f\/1.4 (the first one) and f\/2.8, – oh, and I do love native 16:9 image aspect ratio which is available on the GH-1!<\/p>\n

at f\/1.4:<\/p>\n

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and at f\/2.8:<\/p>\n

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and here is a more mature Amanita muscara:<\/p>\n

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and of course, I better show a sample of this lovely forest:<\/p>\n

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more photos from the walk here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Easter Monday, I thought i would check out a local forest which was hand planted some 100 years ago in central Victorian highlands which makes it rather unique in Australia as it is mainly trees from northern hemisphere origin. I had never been to this forest before and as it was a beautiful sunny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[177,18,178,123],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographic-subjects-and-places","tag-forest","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-mushrooms","tag-panasonic-gh1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}