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Not only did the UPS man bring me a Macro lens today, he showed up about 5 hours early! So I'm outside trying to take a picture of the water drops. I backed away from the camera to throw Sheena's frisbee and when I put my eye back up to my camera...there was a fly. He landed so perfectly I didn't even have to refocus.
He must be the Macro fairy.
I'm kinda going through a weird time in my life right now so I thought I would try to refocus on my favorite things.
I love jeans that have been worn so much that they are frayed in the back...
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. on occasion, the Bees stay attached by way of velcro strip on the extended arms, here I was testing the range of the lens, symmetry, so one can say no two photo's are alike, although I did refocus so the view became more natural ! The larger view also shows the rope that is pulled under the extended arm , Enjoy
Saturdays are the of the week when I can refocus on what I enjoy - making things - whether that's food, knitting, sewing or something else. The recipe for this soup is on the blog - it is a lovely, warming satisfying soup for a winter night.
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Strobist; There is way to much to try to explain what is going on here. But, the effect achieved consists of several planes, intertwined, two for lighting and two for focusing, the latter being what makes this image (In-Camera Photoshop). A 100mm Macro lens was focused on the keys. At shutter release (note the shutter will be open for two seconds to achieve this effect) two speedlites go off and illuminate the keys and they are recorded, and that is it for the keys.
I then refocus the lens on the bottle. Which is done by noting beforehand the focusing scale, to see exactly where the bottle comes into focus (note by this time the keys are no longer receiving light inside the canopy) To be able to refocus I needed at least two seconds, plus I wanted to shoot it at f2.8 otherwise my whole kitchen would strart to come into focus. To work at that aperture I cut down the direct ambient light by putting a diffuser between the window to the left and the bottle otherwise the shutter speed would have been something like a 1/4sec. The diffuser stops the bombardment of light from the left, window light still bounces off the room walls. Then I closed the blinds on the far window, with just a hint of light coming in on the kitchen, after all it‘s 2 seconds at f2.8. I mean it got dark in here. Two seconds go by and done. And that says nothing about how to light the keys, black and a mirror like surface. Also note the near subject drops in placement within the frame as the lens shifts away from a macro setting.
I also ran it through Nik Filters (Glamour Flow) the original looked like the ones above.
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A cup of java offers a chance to refocus when work seems frustrating. The reflection reminds me of a time I overcame obstacles to finish. Any challenge becomes more manageable when I keep moving forward. However, coffee gets cold when I linger too long.
This shot was inspired by StarbuckGuy.
•Aim and refocus the searchlight, which features two movable lenses for different light dispersions
•Fire Rothut’s magic into the sky with the spring-loaded Spell Launcher hidden on the searchlight, and store extra bolts behind the lighthouse tower
Long Exposure Fireworks - refocus during exposure. Taken during Philippines' performance at the Grands Feux du Lac Leamy, Gatineau. August 17, 2013.
Long Exposure Fireworks - refocus during exposure. Taken during Philippines' performance at the Grands Feux du Lac Leamy, Gatineau. August 17, 2013.
shot with Nokia Lumia 1520 @ with Nokia Refocus
the Refocus photo can be viewed here:
Move the mouse all around to check blur change into focus and vice versa ...
Camera Nokia Lumia 1520
Exposure 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture f/2.4
ISO Speed 800
The place I felt the most safe and peaceful was in my garden. Sitting in the shade under the giant heads of the sunflowers brought me the respite I needed to refocus and calm my head and heart during some difficult transitions.
The flowers wouldn’t shade me completely however. My feet were always sticking out into the sunshine, like two glowing beacons of light. I would eventually be found, often too soon. A curious neighbor child would peer over the fence and ask me what I was doing. Joe, our playful black lab, would find me and tenaciously want me to through his ball. It seemed like just as I would settle into the warm earth, I would hear my daughters calling me from the kitchen window, they needed their mommy.
Sometimes I just wanted to become so small I could fit inside a sunflower and pull the pedals around me like warm satiny blankets of happy yellow sunshine. To this day I will take myself there in meditation. I cuddle into a bed of warm moist pollen and carefully wrap myself up in the soft pedals. I hear the calming buzz of nearby bees and I feel gentle puffs of air on my skin from the wings of butterflies. The air is warm and fragrant. I rest, slumber, and dream.
Long Exposure Fireworks - refocus during exposure. Taken during Philippines' performance at the Grands Feux du Lac Leamy, Gatineau. August 17, 2013.
You can click on any part of this Lytro photo to refocus on that part, from the eyelashes to the reflected image.
This plenoptic technology spun out of Stanford. They put an array of microlenses over the sensor, so in a single shot they grab a spectrum of focal planes. The effect is dramatic with an oblique macro shot like this. So you can choose the focal point after the fact. The sacrifice is that you get 1.5MP images from a 16MP sensor.
These two girls had their birthdays a while ago but unfortunately life has been quite busy lately so this one's a little late. :D Nicole has been here for a year now and Sakura for two years. I love both girls so much ♥
Two weeks ago I was in Tracon, after that I got sick and my confirmation was held last weekend. I was in a kindergarten as an intern this week. It was quite fun but also pretty exhausting :D I had to film a "my day at work" type of video. It was hard because I'm not used to filming and having to refocus every second. Maybe I'll learn someday! XD
Una femella d'ànec collverd (anas platyrhynchos) s'ofereix sexualment a un mascle. La cosa anirà a majors en pocs segons, just prou rapid perque jo trigués a resituar-me i enfocar... i ja havia acabat!!
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80nec_collverd
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A female mallard (anas platyrhynchos) ofering to mate. Obviously the male was eager to fulfill the offering. The mating was so swift that I did not had time to refocus and reposition myself before they ended.
My daughter taking in the surroundings whilst cycling. My autofocus was finding the trees, and because she was on the move, I didn't have time to refocus on the building. Close enough though, right?
Book cover of 'ReFocus The Films of Paul Leni', Edited by Erica Tortolani, Martin F. Norden. Published by Edinburgh University Press. The cover photo is a still for The Cat and the Canary (1927).
At the moment I'm reading 'The Films of Paul Leni', promoted as the first comprehensive English-language book on the life and career of German designer and director Paul Leni. And indeed, the book covers many dimensions of Leni's professional creativity, including his early visual and theatrical work in Germany during the 1910s, collaborations with contemporary filmmakers, a career in and experiments with set and stage design, and his transition from German to Hollywood filmmaking.
Silent-era film scholarship has all too often focused on a handful of German directors, including Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch, but little attention has been paid to Paul Leni. The book gives fresh insights into Leni’s most influential films, including Hintertreppe/Backstairs (1921), Das Wachsfigurenkabinett/Waxworks (1924), The Cat and the Canary (1927) and The Man Who Laughs (1928), and also explores such lesser-known productions as Leni's debut Das Tagebuch der Dr. Hart/ The Diary of Dr. Hart (1918) and the Rebus film series (1925–1927). We recommend this groundbreaking exploration of a cinematic pioneer.
For more info: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-pa...
Tiny. Found by Peter Šima in the village of Imeľ in Slovakia. Here now, you can go there: 47°54'35.36"N , 18°8'19.57"E and catch Nomioides minutissmus yourself (as an aside, when reading "minutissmus" I had a flash, a brief vision, of some sort of arcane musical notion: re: "play this section very smallily", perhaps this notation does exist, wouldn't that be jazzy?). Refocus....This bee is a scant few millimetres and would appear (from my Western Hemisphere perspective) to be the Perdita analog of the Old World. (Different families though, Nomioides is Halictidae). Here is a question. World- wide do all non-colonial tiny tiny dust sized bees tend to be brightly colored? I think so, but haven't made a study of it. Photo by Cole Cheng.
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Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Firework flower in Linnanmäki amusement park. Refocus during exposure. Inspired by David Johnson www.flickr.com/photos/daveyjphoto/sets/72157632164084857/