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So hard to keep up with him. A very fast shutter speed is a must and a camera that can focus in an instant. Oh, and having a lot of pixels to spare would be nice too. :P
A slow (frame rate) camera has taught me something... To capture at the right moment. Faster frame rate supposedly will give you more chance of capturing at the right time but some people rely on it too much and depend on pure luck to do the job instead. Sometimes they just end up with a ton of images with no good ones.
I went to one of my favorite spot this morning and guess what I saw... 3 nature photographers! I met them, great guys who belongs to a small photography club based in Smithtown (Sweetbriar Nature Center?). They invited me to join the club and visit an exhibit one of them is holding in the following Monday.
After the yellow is dried and sealed with a coat of thin shellac, the highlights are painted with red casien.
The red and yellow combination is traditional under "yellow" gold. It is meant to mimic the two traditional colors of "bole" used on a water-gilded "real" gold frame.
The red is then sealed with shallac as well.
Is this a bumblebee?
Nikon D50, Nikon 70-200mm VR f/2.8, 36mm Kenko extension tube, Manfrotto tripod and head. Aperture priority, bracket exposure, manual focus, RAW
Thank you Nikographer [Jon] for giving me some tips on macro. :)
Kids are so lucky these days, don't you think? They have records of their childhood through images and videos! All I have when I was a baby are just a handful of black and white photos.
Lightroom used for BW conversion. I manipulated the colors to make sure the boy's luminance is lighter than everything else for emphasis. (i.e. green turned darker, orange (skin) turned lighter, etc.) Then manipulated the curves to improve tones.
Best viewed here. <-- cliché but it's true. lol!
This is the frame freshly gilded. It's awfully bright and garish by contemporary standards, and needs some toning down.
In adition to showing the wealth and status of the owner, in earlier times gold frames helped to correct for poor lighting conditions. The color of light reflected from real gold is the same wavelength as sunlight. A deep, convex frame can reflect a surprising amount of light onto the image it houses. They were initially displayed with very little toning. The way they look to us now, is the result of centuries of use, abuse and neglect. Most of the toning and finishing I do is intended to mimic the look of age.
I went there to shoot some sunrise but instead, I saw a foggy landscape. I'm going back tomorrow morning to see what mother nature has in store for me.
Remember the old Batman TV show ... I would appreciate how he could drive it in and then place it on a disk that would rotate the car around so that he could drive it straight out. How many of us have backed up into a car in the driveway?
Here is a close up of three corner samples I made at the same time as the frame itself.
I'll keep one for my own reference (more accurate than a photo) the other two are for the two retail frameshops who currently sell my frames.
This is a completely different frame. I realized too late that I hadn't taken a picture of the actual frame after joining, but this is a similar frame from a few years ago. Let's pretend it's the same one.
In most cases, I start with raw basswood, which I buy already milled to shape. I sometimes do my own milling, but it's not cost/time effective. The folks I buy from have almost any profile I could need, all ready to go. I cut the frame into four mitered legs on my saw, and join the four corners. Sometimes I join my corners with woodglue and nails, sometimes with a specialty high-strength hot melt adhesive.
