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I got inspired to do this as a self portrait. Initially, my friend and photographer Adam Ghahate told me my outfit resembles Laura Croft from Tomb Raider. So, I decided to play on it and convey a young girl lurking in the shadows, raiding cars and apartments. In the back of my apartment complex, I wanted to produce an image showing myself "getting caught" as this backyard raider. I portrayed this character by wearing a grungier outfit and my leather jacket. I wanted something different composition wise; I decided to shoot from the ground and foreshorten my foot to my body.
Image Specs: Shot with the Canon 6d and the 24-105mmL lens. Lighting was achieved with recycled film flashes. A soft box was feathered at an angle to my face and a shoot through umbrella for fill light. I dragged the shutter to get my ambient light in the background.
Post Processing: Editing achieved with Lightroom 5.2, Exposure 5, and Photoshop CS6 .
This evening my neighbor called me to come over to look in his backyard. This big guy was munching on mushrooms and generally lounging around. Other neighbors reported seeing this guy several times on various early mornings. This buck is about twice as large as any lawn ornament deer replica that I have seen!
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DDC-Ritual
We do a daily walk in the backyard to check things over and Shizandra always leads the way and keeps an eye on Mom too.
I haven't had much time lately to take pics and the few I took are not the best quality. But here is a little collage of some visitors in my new backyard.
Hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas! I wish everybody all the best and tones of wonderful pictures for the New Year!
I stepped out into the backyard and I saw a brown animal laying stretched out. His head was facing away from me and since a woodchuck lives underneath my shed, I initially thought it was him. A second later I froze realizing this was way bigger than my woodchuck friend!
Went back to get my camera and took pics from the door leading out to the backyard, never leaving the garage. He never took his eyes off of me!!
I thought he may have been waiting for the woodchuck to come out or maybe was checking out the birds at the feeders. But from his relaxed behavior and the fact he wasn't trying to hide, I think he was just lounging!!
Definitely a once in a lifetime encounter!
Shelton, Connecticut
Small things matter, particularly when viewing large
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A tough choice to just pick one from a 300-some series of snapshots I took in my backyard a couple of weeks ago on one of the hottest days so far. Gosh, butterflies are just so photogenic...
These are the four aspects of close-up / macro photography I really like and constantly learn from:
1. Surprise factor. This alone is just wonderful! You only see the real candy - and painful faults - when displaying the high-res shots on one of your computer monitors - yes, I have two attached.
2. Compositions. You can play around and learn from all kinds of compositions as much as you wish for. The absence of a clear horizon usually means more flexibility. Yet the size of a thumbnail is often enough to determine if an image is interesting or not - this applies to most images of course.
3. Focus. It's a fair challenge to focus properly with moving subjects and surroundings - especially with a slow non-macro lens such as my poor quality Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6 optic. One small mistake usually means a one-way ticket to the recycle bin. With tiny subjects it's very easy to miss the parts that really matter, such as the eyes.
4. Colours. Nature inspires! More often than not pure colours of nature are deep and vivid enough by themselves. Any colour-specific enhancement can be mesmerizing.
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Post-production notes: A slight warmer global colour-temperature has been applied, except to the butterfly itself which was masked-out again.
Location: Backyard
P.s. still slowly catch-up with you folks, don't worry :))
Explore #141 on 2009-08-13
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Juvenile red-tailed hawk,
Berwyn IL USA
From last February. Red-tailed hawk with squirrel prey (I think). Tool it to the neighbor's backyard and then to their garage roof.
This little Chipmunk was partially hidden under the gardenia bush, or so he thought, getting ready to make his move toward the next Goodie Bowl with an opening.
Between the birds and squirrels there were not a lot of openings to be had, so sometimes Chippy just had to resort to sneak attack tactics.
Herrenchiemsee is a complex of royal buildings on Herreninsel, an island in the Chiemsee, Bavaria's largest lake, 60 km south east of Munich.
After being purchased by King Ludwig II of Bavaria the former Herrenchiemsee monastery was converted into a royal residence known as the Old Palace (Altes Schloss), while the king built Herrenchiemsee Palace also known as the New Palace (Neues Schloss), the largest of his palaces.
The formal gardens are filled with fountains, a copy of the Versailles Bassin de Latone, and statues in both the classical style typical of Versailles and the fantastic romanticism favored by King Ludwig. Statues reminiscent of antiquity are found throughout the gardens, overwrought in the grand style of Richard Wagner's romantic operas.
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These are just a few of our past Christmas trees planted in the backyard, enjoying last Saturday's snow. - HTMT!