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From a test shoot at my Studio Portraiture class. This is our tutor, Grahame Fleming, who's a good teacher, great photographer, very frendly bloke, and all-round diamond geezer. He doesn't normally hang around to pose for us, but on this occasion, he was demonstrating a couple of poses, so a couple of us fired off a couple of test shots, and this one I think kind of sums him up really well.
The lighting are all Bowen flashheads, two behind with honeycombs at 45 degree angles for rim lighting on the hair- you can see one here- and one softbox in front. The softbox is set for f8, and the other two are about 1 and half stops below.
In Photoshop I've slightly tightened the contrast, turned it monochrome, and used colour balance to simulate a dutotone effect.
this zoom lens I got does just that, so easily and smoothly! Now I can actually catch some of those birds. hurrah!
oh, my daughter just called today and told me a great story about being at the Grand Canyon on a training event..and critters got into their coolers and she was the one on the crew to discover it. So, while cleaning up the mess, first she got shots with her new camera of the ravens and chipmunks tearing into the fruit... then she turns around and a cow elk is only 10 feet away trying hard to swallow an entire 5 or 10 pound plastic bag full of apples... She video taped as she tried to talk the elk into spitting out the bag so she wouldn't suffocate on the plastic... the elk came within 5 feet of her before finally dropping the bag and taking off after another girl rolled an apple toward her to distract her from the plastic bag. how fun! I laughed so hard as my daughter told me of her adventures!
She (Leannan Sidhe is her user name) is at the Imperial National WIldlife Refuge near Yuma, Arizona.. on an internship for the Student Conversation Association.
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you would have loved it, and so would I.
I've seen several pretty crocheted flowers recently and decided to have a go!
I sent for a begnner's guide and a book of 100 flowers, but couldn't wait .... long ago I made four granny squares at a craft class - but can't remember how I did them.
So I found a hook and as all I can do is chain and slip stitch "free form" is for me.
It's fun so I'll be doing more!
one of my hybrids that I made.. its so tiny it will likely die but for today its alive... and super small. the seed pod www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbytheseatofmypants/9786384582...
I've always been an advocate of natural lighting. I still am. But I've also been interested in other ways of lighting a shot. And there are so many ways of doing so.
One way I've tended to shy away from is flash. In the past I only had a fixed head flash, or built in flashes and got lousy results. Until discovering the freedom of digital, and before seeing the inspiring work of so many people on Flickr, I didn't know what to do with a flash and so just didn't use it. But recently the idea of getting a decent flashgun popped into my head. I still don't really know quite what to do with a flashgun but I'm sure it will open up all sorts of possibilities.
Short Walk To The Edge Of The World. Toronto, Canada.
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The first nuthatch I've seen in ages... knew they had nested in the woods but hadn't spied any since. These are from my first trip out with the 70D, focus not quite perfect - think that is me, not the camera! (managed other sharp shots later in the morning of other subjects) but these seem to have a sort of 'watercolour' feel to them that I rather like.
Please see Local Birds and wildlife set 2013 www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632400771125/
ODC STEEP - I'm a bit lacking in inspiration and time today (waiting for an appointment just now). Moving every few years means getting to grips with a new culture and/or language which can be a steep learning curve. Five months after arriving in Germany I still think in Italian when resorting to a 2nd language, even though I have more German knowledge to start with than I did on arriving in Italy. I regularly find myself figuring out the German vocabulary in my head only to speak a gobbledygook of Italian, German and English, which results in bafflement all around LOL. However, I do know how to say "lawn-mower" in 6 languages, although I'd prefer to be able to explain precisely how I like my coffee or to discuss the things I'm actually interested in.
Been having a lot of problems using the MP-E65 so far , so haven't posted anything.
Decided that I had better upload something to look back upon and laugh at when I get used to it , so here is a fumbled attempt at an aphid , top image 1:1 @ f8, Iso 200 and way too slow a shutter speed at 1/25 should have been more like 1/200.
Lower image 5x probably still at f8..... diffraction heaven!!!
Using this purely as a bench mark.
Upon reflection , too slower shutter speed , flash not diffused enough , as for the lower pic ... all the same & Effective f-number = f-number x (Magnification +1) rule straight out the window.
TOP IMAGE BEST VIEWED ON BLACK. not that's its really worth viewing :-)