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Deer Hollow Farm, Rancho San Antonio County Park. February 2017. Shot with Fujifilm XPro2 and 18-55mm f2.8-4 lens in Classic Chrome.
ALBUM: RANCHO
Excerpt from the plaque:
Concert for a Fly
In a small square room is a closed circle of 12 music stands. There is a chair behind each one. Everything is ready for a chamber concert. On the music stands, there are gray pages of cardboard containing pictures on the top part and text on the lower. To the side of the page at the bottom of the stand lies a page with notes and an English translation of the text.
A fly (drawn on paper) hangs immobile above the very center of the circle formed by the music stands, at a height of approximately 3.5 meters. It is very easy to find it in the air, despite its small size – the music stands are arranged in a perfect circle and especially their slants direct our attention to it.
The viewer walks around the entire installation. Everything looks rather serious, respectable: this is some kind of profound text, notes, complex musical phrases on them, and particularly the chairs anticipating musicians who will appear any minute now and begin to play. Everything seems to indicate that the concert is about to begin.
What is the fly doing, suspended immobile above the very center? Is it getting ready to conduct the musicians once they take their seats? Or has the concert been in progress for a long time already, and it is hanging immobile in the air, absorbed by the beautiful music, and in complete oblivion assuming that the concert is taking place on account of it, and perhaps even in its honor?
Prelude to our Cuba adventure. First, a very brief stopover in the Bahamas.
Nassau, Bahamas.
Explored.
Dominating peak protecting Lazarevskoye from the northern an eastern sides. Its altitude is 500-600 m above the sea level
This is an English Tudor style house and it’s probably at least 200 years old (or maybe 300 years old) and it has probably been passed down through the same family for many generations. It also probably started out with very straight and level lines that were all even and squared up. But, hundreds of years of seasoning of the wooden frame have changed the shape of the house. Shakespeare lived in a house similar to this.
This water droplet photo was taken during a quick technique demonstration at a water droplet refraction workshop I recently held in Ajax, Ontario. The point was to illustrate how many images are taken when I shoot these images, in this case nearly 200 images were taken and 35 of them were used to focus-stack the finished piece.
I put these puzzle pieces together to show workshop participants how to create images like this: third hand tool, Eucalyptus and a spray bottle filled with plain old water. If you put these items together in the right way, you can create a refracted image inside each droplet of the flower placed behind.
It’s a fun exercise, and it took me less than 5 minutes to set up this image. I’ve taken things up a notch in my own studio work where I use the surface of water as an additional element, or different objects providing the refraction (like a map of Earth), and I’ve got a ton of ideas in my head with techniques for how to make it more challenging and more rewarding.
In the workshops I teach on the subject ( www.donkom.ca/product/macro-photography-workshops/ ) everyone gets the tools and knowledge they need to create these kinds of photographs. It’s not difficult when you get right down to it, but there are many challenges along the way.
One of these challenges is alignment – you need the flower, droplet, and camera to all fall within the same linear path. In any one piece is not in alignment, you won’t see the refraction in the droplets.
Another challenge is light. I typically use flash, but a strong LED flashlight can do the trick if you’re not familiar with flash photography in a comfortable way. The flash should be hitting the flower (or any background object) more prominently than the foreground, allowing the droplets to shine as the brightest part of the image.
Magnification is always tricky, and I’ve got special equipment to get very close. If you don’t have special gear, even flipping around your DSLR’s kit lens and using it backwards can achieve remarkable definition for shots like this.
At the very least, making water droplet refraction images helps you see things differently – the most valuable skill a photographer can have.
Abstract coastline image taken at dawn in the Alicante region of Spain. Taken with a Canon 5D4 and the 135mm Sigma Art lens.
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European pasqueflower / Gemeine Kuhschelle (Pulsatilla vulgaris)
Swabian Jura, Germany / Schwäbische Alb
End of March 2019.
What would be landscape photography without the "magic" that happens every day when the sun is low on the horizon?
The light becomes more beautiful, rich in colors, while geometries take shape and volume and a thousand shades of levels and depths appear... so, what would be photography without these priceless moments? Even more, what would be the very essence of visiting the mountains without these moments of grace?...
Shot taken pointing my camera approximately in direction of the valleys of Saint-Jean-d'Arves, Col de la Croix de Fer, with the Aiguilles d'Arves behind me.
Savoie, France.
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