Two Random Shots Taken Today

Flowering Blaeberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) (Samsung SM-A320FL, 3.6mm, ISO 40, 1/300 sec at f/1.9)

I took this shot of flowering blaeberry at the Open Air Church in Plockton this afternoon.  It was a very small patch of blaebrries which has established on one of the old terraces where folk used to sit during communion services.  These flowers are tiny, probably only about 1-2mm across so despite not having a proper cmaera with me I have to say I am impressed at how well this came out on the phone.

However, the following shot was taken on my full frame digital SLR, I guess that is the other end of the camera spectrum (albeit a slightly old model).  The light was good and I was a bit early for the fortnightly camera club meeting so decided to stop at Eilean Iarmain to see if there was anything worth shooting.  The lighthouse was well lit by a patch of sunlight and the clouds behind looked fairly dramatic.  I thought the shot might look good but in colour it was a bit flat and lacking in contrast so I tried it in black & white and it worked much better.  The clouds were darkened a bit using an graduated ND4 filter which also helped.

Eilean Iarmain Lighthouse (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 24-105mm f/4 IS USM lens at 105mm, ISO 100, 1/50 sec at f/22, Zomei ND4 Graduated Filer, Tripod)