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the cauldron for Canada2017; geometry and light by night ... and a maple leaf ..... could be lit to hold a flame ...
in my Street Art Series ...
Taken Jul 10, 2017
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A fun twist on my “Maple Leaf Flag” image that I thought I’d share today as well! This image consists of a spider web that is sprayed with water, and a print of the image placed in behind, upside-down. When light refracts through a lens it flips, so the upside-down image returns to the camera in the correct orientation. Each water droplet acts like a little lens, showing us the image in behind!
Thinking the number of droplets might be close to 150, I counted them – almost exactly 200. A little room to grow is never a bad thing! Like the past 150 years, some droplets have had more impact and are more noticeable than others but all of them make up the web of our history.
To create an image like this, the flash is placed off camera at a fairly perpendicular angle to the lens – this keeps the catch-light from the flash off of the fronts of the droplets. The red background is actually the out-of-focus center leaf from the image. Usually when I create refraction images with flowers, the center of the flower – and any colour it possesses, becomes the background.
I tried to get the web to be parallel to the focal plane of the camera, but it’s hard to get everything perfectly aligned. A few frames were “focus stacked” to get most of the web nice and sharp, but a little fall-off in the bottom left corner helps give the image a little bit of visual direction. This was one of my first attempts at focus stacking and my first experiment using something other than a flower from a refraction; so much was learned when creating this image!
If you’re going to use an image as a background and refraction object, a size of around 6” x 6” tends to work nicely. Square formats work best so that you get the refraction filled as completely as possible but without losing anything off the edges that you might have wanted inside the droplets. If you see the edges of the print, just move it closer to the droplets.
These are incredible fun images to make and I teach workshops that give you the tools and skills required to make them: www.donkom.ca/product/macro-photography-workshops/
Wishing everyone a continued Happy Canada Day!
Some dead leaves still have a little bit of green in them and turn to vampirism, sucking the remaining life from the veins of other leaves to preserve their own. They can only be destroyed by strong light or driving a rake through them.
This photo is backlit by a computer monitor, with no zoom, getting right up in the creature's face. The leaf is lying flat on my desk, but the angle of the lighting makes it look like it's standing up.
I did nothing to the leaf to create the demonic face, bat wing profile, and expression of dreading the light behind it. I found it like that.
I got a new light table for Christmas and had a brief play with it today. I photographed these maple leaves on it, inverted the shot and applied "Glow In The Dark" setting within Topaz Adjust 5 to it to get this effect.
The maple trees in the area were extremely full of seeds this year. They can be quite the mess. If you don't get them picked up fairly quick, you've got trees growing in the yard.
This particular pile was left behind as the waters around the lake receded. There are literally thousands of little maples growing in the fields nearby! Seems they enjoy the wet slimy mud left by the river.
A little early, but I will probably be busy. :)
there is a bare YN flash zoomed in... sitting on a table to camera right. RF 602s
Sunny days create interesting shadows along the riverfront. I like the crisp edges of a maple leaf. This leaf was caught in a crack in the pier and the sun was just in the right position to produce this pattern,
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From my archives.
As summer winds down, we can feel that autumn is upon us.
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O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Canada's National Anthem
Explore, Sept 28
With the chill in the air these days, I've been resurrecting some older shots. We are still a ways away from snow here, but the falling temperatures remind me that it's not far away.
Luminar2018 used to highlight the details and tweak the tones.