Squash, Mushroom, Carrot

Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – HDR at f/3.5 ISO 100 – Green leaves, falling sun. Autumn is upon us on this late Sunday evening. Probably a bit of a depressing shot …

We spend a few hours with the 70-200mm in Kew last week-end, a particularly mild and sunny day for October in London. There was a fake mushroom exposition, real squashes and fake carrots – not enough real stuff for a soup, but definitely fine for the kids to enjoy and run around.

All conditions were present for some nice portraits – and obviously our favourite lens did the rest of the magic.

Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – 1/640s at f/3.2 ISO 100 – Zoe, Maxime and Chiara. Sitting on the biggest specimen we found. I wish I could find one of those to carve for Halloween …

Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – 1/320s at f/3.2 ISO 200 – Olivier carrying the veggies for the soup. The pumpkin looks bigger than it was in reality and weighted much less than you could guess from Olivier’s face.

Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – Left, Chiara posing with her trophy. Right a natural cheeky smile from Olivier, sitting on a fake carrot.

Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – HDR at f/4 ISO 100 – Falling leaves, Kew Gardens typical benches.

Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – 1/160s at f/2.8 ISO 100 – Impromptu cuddle, it’s good to have a bigger sister …