{"id":6159,"date":"2026-08-24T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=6159"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:08:07","slug":"late-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/late-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Late summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took A7CR with the new lens to the beach today just to see what I can get, and initially I wasn’t very pleased since the pictures looked like summery postcards. But then I thought: well it’s summer in Dalmatia, what else are they supposed to look like?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Also, it’s quite obvious why we had so many fires.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Everything is dried up like gunpowder from the prolonged heat wave and no rain whatsoever. In fact it’s a miracle we had so few fires. Hopefully we get a rainy period soon because the vegetation is on its last legs. The dried-up ikebana stuff does lend itself well to photography, though. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Edit: BTW this is a good example of what I was saying about needing small but high quality 50mm lens for shots that don’t require extreme depth of field, or night vision. If I’m going to shoot a detail that needs to be sharp, or separation of the planes needs to be slight and subtle, the small lens will do fine. But what’s the big lens for, then?<\/p>\n

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FE 50mm f\/1.2 GM<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s for making magic out of chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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