{"id":6405,"date":"2014-05-02T22:45:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2014-06-09T22:39:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:39:50","slug":"gardens-and-forests-with-the-olympus-75mm-f1-8-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6405","title":{"rendered":"Gardens and forests with the Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy going for walks in the forests and gardens in the nearby hills, and taking the light and compact Micro Four Thirds camera kit avoids making these walks a burden as often happens carrying the larger, heavier dSLRs.<\/p>\n<p>Even though these were shot on a very overcast day in low light, I still prefer to use a polarising filter for when I am shooting leaves so I was thankful I had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusomdem5\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus OM-D E-M5<\/a> with its 5-axis image stabiliser to help out with these hand held shots without flash in low light using the lovely, light and very sharp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusmzd75mm\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus mZD 75mm f\/1.8 lens<\/a> (NB. no PS other than toning adjustments &#8211; a lot with the psychedelic garden!):<\/p>\n<h2>Girl leap frogging her brother in front of a pond:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/ByLens\/OlympusEM5\/OlympusmZD75mm\/GA015241-71.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"girl leap frogging her brother\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/ByLens\/OlympusEM5\/OlympusmZD75mm\/GA015241-71.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Dreaming of what life could be:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/ByLens\/OlympusEM5\/OlympusmZD75mm\/GA015198-30.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"girl dreaming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/ByLens\/OlympusEM5\/OlympusmZD75mm\/GA015198-30.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Too much mountain fresh air &#8211; a psychedelic garden:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/ByLens\/OlympusEM5\/OlympusmZD75mm\/GA204821-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"psychedelic garden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/ByLens\/OlympusEM5\/OlympusmZD75mm\/GA204821-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Abstract forest:<\/h2>\n<p>And by putting the E-M5&#8217;s image stabilisation into panning mode, we can shoot the forests in an abstract manner by sweeping the camera at 1\/30th sec.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/ByLens\/OlympusEM5\/OlympusmZD75mm\/GA153996-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"abstract forest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/ByLens\/OlympusEM5\/OlympusmZD75mm\/GA153996-1.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy going for walks in the forests and gardens in the nearby hills, and taking the light and compact Micro Four Thirds camera kit avoids making these walks a burden as often happens carrying the larger, heavier dSLRs. Even though these were shot on a very overcast day in low light, I still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[255,312,18,311,241,294,14],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses","category-photography","tag-75mm","tag-forests","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-gardens","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-mt-macedon","tag-olympus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405","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=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}