I stayed home most of today- so here is a still life featuring my grandmother’s school bell and some of my mother’s books (sitting on my father’s antique dental cabinet). I do love old things!
I worked on various focusing techniques today- my usual half-pressed shutter-focusing and recomposing, back-button focus, and toggling the focus points. The focus point toggling seems very awkward to me, perhaps because I don’t have enough points to always hit the spot in my composition that I want to be in focus. I did not find the back-button focusing any crisper than my regular method, but I did find that sometimes the toggling could produce a more focused image (but it takes me longer). I think that this particular shot was my usual focus and recompose technique.

Very nice. I love the reflection and the focus is excellent. I haven’t tried back focus. I’ve got so much studying to do!
I love the colors together….the retro look, and the books and bell. That bell is a real treasure. I hope you have a photo of your grandma and even that old schoolhouse to display by the bell. That would be awesome!
Very nice…
I can still see a nun ringing the bell at the end of recess…scary!