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Chandratal Lake - one of the most frequented places among photographers visiting Himachal, has been shot a million times in its full glamour
"Wide angle at f8" is what a photographer would obviously think of as he gets the first visuals of the lake after 15 mins of easy trek
But, "telephoto at f8" is what I think when I look at majestic landscapes. I love shooting landscapes with Nikkor 70-200. Creating images that go beyond the usual is the challenge for any photographer and 70-200 can help you see and capture such gems. And here is an example
About Chandratal : literal meaning being moon shaped lake (Chandra means moon & tal means lake ) is situated at an altitude of 14000 ft and 8 KMs away from the Kunzum Pass in Spiti & Lahaul district of Himachal Pradesh, India and lies between a low himalyan ridge and the main Kunzum range. Boasting of a circumference of about 3 KMs, the crystal clear water of Chandra Tal Lake is one of the source of the violent Chandra river
Nikon D5 | Nikkor 70-200
A slice of Kiwi fruit shot on a lightbox.
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I thought I’d take a moment today to show what a “slice” of one of my snowflakes looks like, with just a few basic adjustments done in Lightroom to bring this to you. View Large!
Snowflakes are complex little crystals, and the best way to showcase this complexity is to get light to reflect off the surface of the snowflake. If the crystal was parallel to the focal plane in the camera to get most of it in focus, such lighting would be impossible as the light would need to originate from inside the camera lens itself to bounce back in the right direction for “surface glare”. Instead, the snowflake needs to be photographed on an angle.
There is about a five degree window where the surface reflection really shines and makes the snowflake sparkle, and I rotate the camera around the snowflake in order to get this angle exactly as needed. A few test shots and I usually find it, and then I continuously shoot hundreds of images of the same snowflake at all different “slices” of focus.
If the snowflake is on an angle like this, it reveals how truly shallow the depth of field is – fractions of a millimeter most of the time. An average of 40 frames are required to get focus from tip to tip, though the most I’ve done for a snowflake is 70. Photoshop does a decent job of aligning the images, but the geometry will never be perfectly connected due to shifts in perspective from one image to the next. The process of combining the images together automatically takes minutes, but applying all of the corrections takes hours.
For a larger snowflake like this one, I would probably spend 5-6 hours working on it; I may never edit this one in its entirety, however. One of the left branches is significantly broken just outside of the frame, so this one is lower on my priority list. I have well over 700 unedited snowflakes and I know I’ll never get to them all – so here’s a glimpse at some of the magic that remains locked away. Every new snowfall I shoot far more snowflakes than I can edit, and choose the best ones to work on for this series. For other projects if I need a special type of snowflake or to showcase a unique feature, I dig through my archives and bump a matching crystal higher in the list of ones to edit.
If you’re curious about the process that I go through with my snowflakes, in the field all the way through the post-processing workflow, I’ve got just the thing: www.skycrystals.ca/book/ - roughly a third of the 304pg hardcover book is dedicated to the photographic process that results in images like this. You’ll also find equal time spent discussing the science of snow and how these gems are created – it’s a book perfect for any naturalist or photographer!
This started out as a late afternoon time lapse movie, with individual shots taken every minute, until it got dark. But instead of a movie, I created this composite by taking one slice from each image. Here the time slices begin at the lower left (around 5:30pm) and go on toward the upper right, until it gets dark, a little after 9pm, a total of 215 pictures. The occasional dark strips correspond to times when the sun went behind a cloud. The hook shaped clouds arise from the clouds moving down toward the horizon as time moves to the right.
I used the Viennese Swirl Pan that Wilton used to make, and instead of cherries put blueberries in the center. Made for a co-worker who likes sunflowers!
Week 7: Intentional Colour Palette
I wanted to get a bright punch of colour in my submission this week. Anybody need a lime for their mojito?
UP's Denver Post Frontier Days Special slices through Wyoming hill country near Speer, Wyo. on July 19, 2014.
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 18/06/2022 -
Contre-Jour or Backlit .
Well this was taken in a darkened room with a light box for craftwork as the only light source . Placed on the lit surface are a selection of agate slices .
Agate is a variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. Translucency, patterns of color, or moss-like inclusions may distinguish this stone from other forms of chalcedony. Agates can show a wide variety of vivid, multiple colors. These are principally the result of traces of oxides of iron, manganese, titanium, chromium, nickel, and other elements. All agates take a wonderful polish and are tough enough for most jewelry uses. Designers often take advantage of the intriguing patterns these stones have to offer to create unique and fascinating pieces.
And now to hear the " Light Flux " ------------
Tynemouth railway station, UK. A feast of metalwork, light and shadows.
Design (1877): William Bell.
This is an iconic image for my family. My Dad liked to help wherever he could. He sliced beans so fast I had a lot of blur on the knife to manage! The beans were home grown, and very tasty.
The sky is blood-red as the sun has been cut into slices.
Where is the top of the sun?
Normally, the sun ball hides its bottom first when going down behind the horizon. This day the top disappeared before the bottom.
LOT2 heavy (bound for Warsaw) cuts through the humidity while climbing off of 28C in Chicago
LOT - Polish Airlines / Polskie Linie Lotnicze
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (SP-LRD) (cn 35941/87)
For the February 22, 2021 Macro Monday theme.
Kona abalone: part of a salad, which was very yummy.
The whole shell is approx. 3" x 2" - this is just part of it.
Macro Monday's and the theme of "Dried".
This week I found some dried Mango in our supermarket and spent some time pondering how I was going to present it.
I thought I may try using some of my son's figures to hold the mango but in the end I decided to use five slices and stack them against each other along with a high key background.