Growing seedlings
January 30th, 2009 | 
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The cabbage and broccoli seedlings are up — high enough to really see this time. Perhaps you can read the tag; this is a cabbage seedling. It’ll be interesting to watch a head of cabbage emerge from this tiny plant. I have been turning the seedling tray each day to keep them growing relatively straight. They really like to lean toward the sun.
I took this using available (late afternoon) light with my Nikon D70 and the Tamron 90 mm lens. I didn’t use a tripod. (1/160 sec. at f/ 3.5) After capturing this shot of a single seedling, I decided to try to get a good one of a whole line of them.
I used my standard lens this time. (1/40 sec. at f/4.5)
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You might have used a tripod for the second shot and stopped the aperture down to f/11. That would have given you quite a bit more depth of field. It’s nice to be reminded how beautiful those first monocot leaves look before the true leaves take over later.
Dave
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