{"id":1039,"date":"2013-06-15T21:45:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2013-06-15T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T21:45:09","slug":"speedwell-in-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/speedwell-in-the-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedwell in the grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seemed a shame to cut the grass the other day. The grass (?? moss bed) at the front of the house had some of these tiny Speedwell flowers in it. I just had to get my extension tubes out to get a nice close-up of it before cutting the grass.<\/p>\n

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I don’t do a lot of macro work but of the lenses I have used the Canon EF-S 55-250mm f\/4-5.6 IS II Lens<\/a> seems to be the most versatile. The zoom control lets me focus over quite a range and then the focus ring lets me tweak the last little bit. Once the focus is very close the auto-focus works too, but in this case I had it turned off. It doesn’t do any damage but I don’t think it is a good idea to rotate the focus ring on this lens when auto focus is turned on. The range of how close I can get is controlled by the combination of the extension tube set<\/a> I use between the lens and the camera, 13mm, 21mm or 31mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seemed a shame to cut the grass the other day. The grass (?? moss bed) at the front of the house had some of these tiny Speedwell flowers in it. I just had to get my extension tubes out to get a nice close-up of it before cutting the grass. I don’t do a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-gL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}