Simple Sign of Spring….
I had to get outside today. It was still fairly cold but winds were lite and my property is a mess from the winter. Amongst all the clean-up I did see a few signs of spring. Several of the bushes and trees have started to sprout buds. I like how this shot seems to have a mirror effect to it. And that dark background…sweet.
Letters in Nature…
During last years challenge I believe Julie(?) posted a little tut on reversing a 50mm lens to produce an extreme macro shot of some flowers. At that time I said I needed to try it out. Well, months later, after approximately 40 attempts here is my best from the session. I’m pretty happy with it but I do have to say it was an exercise in patience. The hardest part was positioning and keeping the lens steady for the split second of pressing the shutter. The dof is so small, that any, and I mean any, movement will result in a blurry picture.
So, if you have such a lens and have the patience, all you do is take off the lens, flip it over and press it against the body of your camera. Compose the shot and fire away. In this scenario just keep clicking away and eventually you’ll end up with one keeper. Give it a try. I’d like to see your efforts!
Innocence…sadness…
So much can be sensed just looking at the eyes. What do you see? Innocence, sadness, a sense of isolation?
I was immediately drawn into this shot by the sharpness and expression of the eye but then I began to think that the side lighting was the real kicker. I guess it is a combination of all these. It also seemed to be fitting of a B+W conversion, I guess solely from the expression in the eye.
I don’t have a great ability to write about this kind of stuff, but I think you get the point. Maybe tomorrow I’ll post the color version and you’ll see what I mean. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
Weathered…
As I was walking around the neighborhood with my daughter and her friend for Halloween I noticed this lone leaf perched atop a sewer. I immediately noticed the contrast of color and shapes and knew it was a keeper as long as I could snap it before the wind blew it away.
As far as processing goes this was a quick one. 1. Exported to elements for some cloning and high pass sharpening (seems to be popular in many posts lately) 2. Back to lightroom for a graduated filter adjustment for brightness and 3. added a vignette to finish it off.
Shot settings: F6.7, 1/180 sec, iso 200 at 145mm
Further Isolation….
These sun worshippers were easy to isolate against the dark background…again not possible without a complimentary light source.
PS: sorry about the blotch must be from compression for the web.
Shot settings: f4.0, 1/3000sec and iso 200 at 200mm
More Isolation…
I’ve been quite busy with not much time to shoot but I did get out to shoot a few macro shots the other day. The next few posts will feature shots from that session. These posts will feature my Canon 70-200L lens. This glass is very impressive and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in purchasing it.
As a side note, I’m up to 11000 views to my blog from that post on wordpress.com….thanks again everybody.
Shot settings: f4.0, 1/750 sec, iso 400 at 113mm
Green…with a little
Green…with alittle, originally uploaded by boomer3297.
I’m having trouble finding the time to get out and shoot but forced myself out of bed this morning to capture this little gem. Basically little processing except for tone curve adjustments and a vignette. My next big shooting event will probably be Las V egas at the end of the month.
