Posts from the ‘Macro’ Category
Is Photography Art?
With an exhibition coming up I had been thinking about what I produced. Yes, some great macro flowers in the studio; yes, some pretty good land/water scapes; but what was my USP? I have been working with a film maker combining film and images, so thought I why not combine images? So with some experimenting here are the first four. Look carefully as at first sight most people miss some of the content; a clue is in the title! Also, the thumbnails cut off some of the image so click on the image and then again!!
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- Echinacea and the Tamar
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- Blue tree and the Christmas decs
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- Harbour and beach
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- Rose and the Horse
The Sun came out……………
Wow!! a few rays of sunshine got me out with the camera, no studio for a few days! The garden supplies much of my subjects including these. There are more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/reflexrover/sets/72157627493812074/
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- Sweet Pea
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- Japanese Anemoneas
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- Not Montbretia
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- Lillies
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- Japanese Anemoneas
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- Hollyhock
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- Bug
Outdoors and in
With mixed weather this week I have been picking single flowers from the garden, and photographing them in the studio. Also been on a couple of walks in and out of woods and along the river Tamar with the sun spotighting a field and a tower. A mix of straight mast and bendy tree with white daisies below was a nice challenge. Into the woods and the Anti vibration mechanism on the new lens worked well plus for a change I uped the ISO to 500 with hardly any degrdation! More at Flickr
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- cyclamen
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- Tamar-Valley
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- Tamar-Valley
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- Japanese Anemoneas
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- Fuschia
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- fence
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- Fuschia
Triple Wammy!
Todays post has three sections. I have been trying to use what facilities I have – lenses, weather and more – I live at the top of a hill with nothing higher than us to the North Atlantic – another way of saying that it is WINDY! I often say, ‘can’t photograph today as it is too windy’, so to counteract that and with the aid of a variable Neutral Density filter and flash gun or multiple exposure I have tried to counter the wind. Secondly whilst waiting for a new zoom I have been making myself use prime lenses for everything which has proved a good relearning curve! Finally the new Nikon 28 – 300 arrived; meant for travel use when I need to change from zoom to wide angle quickly it was fun to just go for a walk to see what it would do and it is wonderful – heavy as it is a FX lens and solid with crisp optics. More of the same at Flickr
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- New Lens Woods
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- Windy Japanese Anemoneas
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- Windy Japanese Anemoneas
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- Windy Lily
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- Garden Rubbish
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- Thistle
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- Teasel
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- New Lens old Tractor
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- New Lens Wood
A few more Flowers
I have bee uploading onto Flickr – Roses have got great acceptance from Princes Grace Rose Garden Group! Any way, I have been trying to work out what to do lens wize as my 18 – 200 is not doing what I want and so I have been only using prime (none variable) lenses – quite a challenge but FUN! I grew the Arum Lily, it was a very late planting and has done better than the first one I grew!
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- woods
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- woods
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- rose
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- woods
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- Arum
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- rose
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- Arum
Birthday Flowers
A dear friend gave me a bunch of flowers for my birthday so what else was I to do. And with sun out and a lens problem a shot testing a prime lens. More at Flickr.com
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- garden
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- iris
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- rose
The Sun has got his hat on ………….
Given the weather, most of my work recently has been in the studio, but, today the sun has come out and I went out into the garden! I did take a white geranium to the studio! Most were taken in early afternoon light and are a bit flat but the strength of the light was just so wonderful!!
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- Sweet Pea
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- Horse in the field
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- Garlic
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- White Geranium
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- Japanese Anemonea
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- geranium
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- Lavendar
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- Bottle Brush
Here we are again!
Well what has happened since the last post? Lots, including the shrinking of the day! Some new photos, we grew a yellow Arum Lily and I managed to get a fine evening on my partners allotment where as well as great vegetables there are flowers, wild and cultivated! As normall there are more at Flickr and there will be some for sale on my sales site
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- pinks
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- arum
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- foxglove
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- sweetpea
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- poppy
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- lobelia
Sitting Quietly and ………….
Hello!
Being forced not to be too energetic I have been in the studio which is fun! For this session it was one weed, two home grown and one bought – all flowers of course. More are available at www.tamarvalleyphotos.co.uk and also if you prefer www.flickr.com/photos/reflexrover in the Summer 2011 pt II set.
Here is one of each flower:
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- Sweet Pea
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- Sweet William
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- Orange Hawkweed
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- Brodiaea
First of the Summer
Gazania
