Night walk

Flooded brook, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

The rain ceased in the evening, so it was nice to for a late evening (night?) walk. Water was present everywhere, flooding lakes and brooks, such this one here.

I had a mini-tripod for the LX3, so this time I tried doing long but sharp exposures. I used max ISO 200, in some cases dropping the ISO to 100 to limit noisiness. But then it started to rain again, and I lost the mood for photography. But as long as it lasted, it was nice to use the LX3 once again.

When you are using manual focusing on the LX3, it not only shows the focus distance on the scale, but also the depth of field (DOF) region (in yellow color). In this photo is tried to get the max DOF with f/2.0, and it was something like 2 meters--infinity.

I very much like how the LX3 implements the manual focusing and displays the DOF. This is handy not only with hyperfocal (as here), but also when you do street shooting type photography - for example, setting aperture and focusing distance for DOF at 1-3 meters. Also, you can use manual focusing to restrict the DOF - by focusing in front of the subject so that the background is maximally out of focus.