Through The Window

This morning, I wanted to post a shot before hitting the road for Thanksgiving travel. Since it's cold and snowy out, I decided to shoot through the screened window, a good task for a manual focus, longer lens. I chose my Nikkor 135mm f/3.5 MF prime lens, a $75 Ebay acquisition. It's tack sharp and reaches over 200mm perspective on my D300.

The shot was processed minimally in Adobe Camera Raw; altered the exposure (Exposure slider) by +0.6, a little more than half a stop. I still adjusted the Levels in PSE6, the dark and light ends, nothing on midtones. No sharpening was done.

"Saving for Web" in PSE6 deletes the EXIF data, I guess by design.

Data, however, is: ISO-1600 to get shutter speed 1/160 sec, hand-held, at f/3.5, thus wide open on this 135mm MF lens. If you look closely, you'll see an out-of-focus branch obscuring the view. The black window in the background is distracting. "Haste makes waste."