View allAll Photos Tagged Affinity
My take on the 1933 painting by Rene Magritte titled 'Elective Affinities'. The title was taken from the Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe book 'Elective Affinities'.
Plywood burning bright.
Processed in Affinity Photo
The Tyger by William Blake
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies,
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Have not seen any for a few weeks and today, there was a bunch of them frolicking about. For whatever reason, they just seemed to be enjoying themselves. According to the Merlin app, they gather to in large flocks to roost and eat berries in the fall and winter... which is exactly what they were doing
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
- Tyler Arboretum
Tried something a little different with my setup on this shoot. Decided to put the camera in One Shot instead of AI Servo mode. Burst rate increased (kept in high-speed shooting) over Servo, and focus seemed to better. Hit rate also appears to be increased as well.
I know Servo mode is a little less reliable than One Shot is. Knowing that I am primarily looking mainly for perched birds, seemed a good decision. I think I'll keep it set that way for any decent winter days I can get outside.
Also maintained shooting with the camera in Crop Mode (1.6) which does allow for it to be zoomed-in in the viewfinder, giving me a larger target to focus on. I’m actually a fan of this feature because it allows me to focus better on composition since it crops the photo at the time of shooting versus doing it in post... which has to be cropped anyway. Subject size is the exact same size if I were to have done it in full frame, but again, benefits of this mode are above.
Effective focal length here is 1280mm if you factor in the 1.6 crop mode and the 800mm. Only a slight finishing crop to a 4:3 ratio and overall reduction in pixels for post.
We had to walk back through past Affinity so here's a couple of last ones from #highlightcarnival. Thanks for all your encouraging comments, it was a fun evening that's for sure :)
“In questo lasciare e prendere, fuggire e ricercarsi, sembra davvero di vedere una determinazione superiore: si dà atto a tali esseri di una sorta di volontà e capacità di scelta, e si trova del tutto legittimo un termine tecnico come affinità elettive.”
da Goethe, "Le affinità elettive", 1809.
© Zoë Murdoch - All Rights Reserved. use without permission is illegal!
Requiem For Fiction
~ Image No: 10.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Explore ~ 139
Fomapan 200
Olympus OM-2
G.Zuiko Auto-W 28mm f/3.5
Scanned using Nokia 5.3
Processed using Affinity Photo
Local church processed in Affinity photo, NIK Color Efex and Nik Analog Efex from Leica DNG (raw) file
Canon R7 + Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 18mm + Hoya CIR-PL
ISO-100, 13" @ F/22
Affinity Photo 2