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A fun twist on my “Maple Leaf Flag” image that I thought I’d share today as well! This image consists of a spider web that is sprayed with water, and a print of the image placed in behind, upside-down. When light refracts through a lens it flips, so the upside-down image returns to the camera in the correct orientation. Each water droplet acts like a little lens, showing us the image in behind!
Thinking the number of droplets might be close to 150, I counted them – almost exactly 200. A little room to grow is never a bad thing! Like the past 150 years, some droplets have had more impact and are more noticeable than others but all of them make up the web of our history.
To create an image like this, the flash is placed off camera at a fairly perpendicular angle to the lens – this keeps the catch-light from the flash off of the fronts of the droplets. The red background is actually the out-of-focus center leaf from the image. Usually when I create refraction images with flowers, the center of the flower – and any colour it possesses, becomes the background.
I tried to get the web to be parallel to the focal plane of the camera, but it’s hard to get everything perfectly aligned. A few frames were “focus stacked” to get most of the web nice and sharp, but a little fall-off in the bottom left corner helps give the image a little bit of visual direction. This was one of my first attempts at focus stacking and my first experiment using something other than a flower from a refraction; so much was learned when creating this image!
If you’re going to use an image as a background and refraction object, a size of around 6” x 6” tends to work nicely. Square formats work best so that you get the refraction filled as completely as possible but without losing anything off the edges that you might have wanted inside the droplets. If you see the edges of the print, just move it closer to the droplets.
These are incredible fun images to make and I teach workshops that give you the tools and skills required to make them: www.donkom.ca/product/macro-photography-workshops/
Wishing everyone a continued Happy Canada Day!
Fall, Maple, tree, leaves, trunk, fall colors. I particularly like that the rich colors actually glow on the tree trunks.
#AbFav_FULL_AUTUMN. 🍂
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
Childhood memories!
The innocent fun you could have with those twirly thingies, throwing them up, running after them (kept us fit!), guarding and treasuring your 'best' ones!
I created a propeller with the ‘maple-copters’.
More fun from Studio Indigo, lol.
INFO: Found under a tree in bonnie Scotland.
Maple trees (Acer) produce winged seeds called double samaras, which twirl to the ground in late summer or early fall.
They resemble helicopters in motion, earning them the common name of helicopters or whirligigs.
The seeds vary slightly in size and colouring among species, but all produce winged seeds affectionately called helicopters.
Have a fun day and thank you, M, (*_*)
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seedpods, propeller, wings, whirligigs, acer, helicopters, samaras, maple, Autumn, "mountain ash", design, "conceptual art", studio, black-background, square, "Magda indigo"
Nachdem ich lange Zeit nur unterschiedliche Sonnenuntergangsbilder hochgeladen habe, kommen jetzt wieder einige, die auf eine andere Weise schön sind... :)
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I am getting weary of searching for the perfect fall foliage setting. Soon the leaves will be gone and then it's over. The naked state of mother nature will not be so inviting for photographs.
It's funny how we are always looking for the next photo opportunity. As I was cutting the grass yesterday, I looked up and was inspired. The colors remind me of fall, but the Japanese Maple tree Is green on the underside and turns burgundy toward the top where the sun hits. Leeds, Alabama
Not exactly sure what it is about these small trees that I find so intriguing, but every time I visit my local garden center with my camera, I find myself drawn to them. Perhaps it's the rich color of the leaves, or even how delicate they seem in a slight breeze. I wish I had one in my yard, but they are expensive and my yard is not that big. In any case, this shot provided me with a very interesting bokeh.
This was one of the smaller maples at Kubota Garden. But it made up for it's small size with an amazing display of brilliant leaves.
From a walk at VanDusen Gardens last Fall.
I had missed much of the Autumn colour, it had already fallen.
Just a few red Japanese maple leaves hanging on.
Backlit emerging spring maple leaves and keys are nicely framed by the soft DoF background of shadow and light on the lake at Pine Grove Park near Liverpool. I placed the leaves and keys in the composition according to the vertical rule of thirds which contributes to the impression of a harmonious aesthetic in the image.