Mangos and Peaches

Easter is a great time for photos. Everything is very colorful and bright. Yesterday was a beautiful day. The combination of all that equals the images you see below. I decided to go back to basics and use only my trusty 50mm lens and shoot everything with the widest aperture. Focus was tricky and made me realize how much I take auto focus for granted. Especially at a 1.4 setting where the depth of field is so shallow that even the slightest movement can push your subject out of focus. I also decided to not edit the photos ahead of time and shot in jpeg mode. The bright day helped me make this decision even though I found myself second guessing my camera settings in most situations (I was worried about overexposure more than anything). It was a nice change of pace trying to get the best image inside the camera rather than fixing everything afterwards in software. All of the images are straight out of camera.