Soft Evening Blues

How nice an evening under open skies in perhaps above zero temperatures feel sometimes...

I had not taken many such opportunities recently. This time, I went to the open-air court in a school yard nearby. Clear view from there. The flocks of crows were huge but by the time I was reunited with a camera, the non-cooperating birds had withdrawn and were not even showing up from a distance but en masse, as before.

Moments missed, moments enjoyed, some balls thrown at a basket. Weeks of absence from the court did not make me forget how to score from a distance, not entirely. A good thing, that. Since I cannot be quite regular, anyway.

The irregular time spent out feels great, though.

Cheers!

A view from the schoolyard where I was playing a bit with a basketball and a camera hours earlier.

Camera Settings:

Aperture F 5.6; Shutter Speed 1/6 of a second; Light Sensitivity ISO 1600; Focal Length 50 mm

Camera Model:

Sony Alpha 6000 mirrorless with a 16-50 kit lens.

To get the unfocused bokeh effect I focused on the tips of the fingers of my outstretched hand (somewhere relatively much closer than the background with light soft sources in it) and then I removed it while holding the semi-pressed trigger so that I don't lose the focus lock. Sometimes it works and sometimes the auto focus kind of slips to the distant plan again.

And here be the critters that actually made me take the camera in the first place.