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Make no mistake this mocking bird look alike is a fearless badass. Here he is hovering after something that eluded him. I've seen them kill mice that weigh more than they do and since they don't have real talons like hawks they kill by biting or stabbing their prey in the neck piercing the spinal cord thus paralyzing their prey. They have a tomial tooth like a falcon. Then lots of times they will impale the prey on something thorny or possibly a barb wire fence to devour. Truly a badboy.
This snowflake is a number of firsts, it’s quite imperfect compared to others but it’s the earliest I’ve ever photographed a snowflake in the season, and it was done using a micro four thirds camera. Mistakes were made, and definitely learned from, when shooting this snowflake. Read on for the advantages of using a small sensor and the pitfalls to avoid!
This photo was made with a Lumix GX9 and a Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 1x-5x macro lens with a Metabones 0.64x adapter. This combination can yield wonderfully sharp results, but there’s a key ingredient here that I didn’t originally account for: diffraction.
One of the subtle benefits of a full-frame camera for macro work is that at extreme magnifications, you can avoid issues with light bending off course too far. From shooting with 20 megapixels on a full-frame camera (from the years spent with a 1DX mark II), I found the sweet spot for certain sizes of snowflakes to maximize detail. Using smaller apertures causes light to bend farther than desirable when passing though the aperture, effectively colouring outside the lines. While this image was taken at a 5x magnification at F/5, that’s the equivalent of just shy of F/45. The simple equation is to add one stop for every magnification factor you have.
20MP on the GX9 normally perfect, and I’ve used this camera for the past year of my professional shooting so the proof is there – but physics can be a bee with an itch sometimes. Tread carefully or you’ll get stung. Had I widened my aperture to F/2.8 as I normally would for even higher magnifications, I’d have even more detail in every focus slice. I’m walking you though this because it’s important to see my learning process – this image isn’t a failure, it’s a very important stepping stone towards better images during the next snowfall.
A pleasant surprise, however, was the number of frames required to make this image. Only 12. Twelve! Normally this would be a 30+ shot snowflake, and even with lightening my aperture up by a stop or two I’d have MUCH fewer frames required to get the snowflake completely in focus. SO long as diffraction can be kept at bay, I’m looking forward to using these cameras to make more magic.
Another point of failure here was the Canon MR-14EX II flash. Canon engineers decided to put a thermal limiter in the flash to prevent it from overheating, but they cut corners: they assume the temperature is relative to the aggregate flash output over time. They used a counter, not a thermal sensor. I’m outside in freezing temps and getting overheating warnings from my flash. Ugh. I also have the original MR-14EX that does NOT have this problem, and neither does the Yongnuo YN-14EX (Canon) or K&F Concept KF-150 (Nikon). Use these instead, and save some money in the process. I’ll be selling my MR-14EX II if there are any buyers interested!
Welcome to my world. Problem solving, experimenting, and stepping stones towards what will be even better images. It’s all part of the process, and I like to be transparent about how it all comes together. I hope that makes your own photographic journey with the subject even more fruitful! Yes, this isn’t the most beautiful snowflake, but it was perfect for the practice needed to learn. Never stop learning. :)
Canon AE-1
FD 50mm f/1.8
Kodak Ektar
Hong Kong // Lantau Peak
The right side of this image is a result of an imperfect double exposure; I accidentally moved the rewind crank slightly. I kind of like it however, I think it adds some spice to an otherwise boring shot. I recently bought a bright yellow Holga 135! The little thing is so fun to shoot. I have no idea how anything will turn out, so I'm free to shoot carelessly which is quite a relief from my normal, methodical pattern. To keep the lomo trend going, I just loaded my AE-1 with some lomochrome purple, after saving it for around a month. Intensely excited to see how everything turns out
The group was leaving on the next train and I thought my shot was done exposing - I grabbed my tripod and ran for the train. It obviously wasn't done!
nikon S2
nikkor SC 5cm 1.4
delta 100
xtol 1:1 17m (pushed to 800)
honolulu hawaii
about 25 frames late I found out I was shooting at f/4-5.6, so I had to push the film
Model- Jackie Clay
I took this girl out in the woods before it got deathly cold to just do some experimental work and shoot just for me. I really enjoyed what we got and I'm happy to have done some work besides client lately.
Just a bunch of Japanese schoolgirls at the airport.
I sawone with a blue hat and had to ask why she was allowed to be different? They saud "winter wear"...lol
A frame that I was really hesitating to post or not.
This angle is more or less the same as the earlier blue hour version. However, I tilted the angle slightly higher to frame a bigger portion of the sky as I wanted to focus more on the moving cloud. Nevertheless, I did not notice the seriously distorted buildings on the right side.
As a result, I have to correct it during post processing by doing some free transform and cloning to fill the frame. So this is the result ~
This is also the last image to round up my Singapore trip ~
I ordered a canvas art piece of my B&W landscape photograph of a lake in my neighborhood. I asked Hadley to unwrap it. He cut it open and said ”what is this?” in a surprised tone. I thought that a ridiculous question, until I saw what actually was shipped to us…. Check out what I wanted versus what I got.
ODC: predictable versus unpredictable
"We have never really been friends. You have always been trying to conquer us. But no longer. We thought that the days where we were enemies were over when you went in to help Morocco. But we were wrong."
"We were very disappointed when we found 7 burning crates and 5 dead soldiers in that house. But we forgave you for doing that. Of course you couldn´t know that we had just upgraded our army. But then the last straw came."
"You sended in this guy to get what you want. You have no authority whatsoever to do that. And it doesn´t matter that you are a rich "important" country. White man doesn´t rule anymore. That time has come to an end."
"Though your price is minor it still has to be paid"
*BANG
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Spanish agent Alfredo Hernandez´ execution video was posted all across the internet today. It is the second time this week where an execution video became official earlier being corporal Etienne Larue of the French national army. Both videos are highly violent so please view at your own descretion. Now over to Diego with the weather.
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I am pretty satisfied with this one. I like how the lighting came out. Oh and the lamps even though they don´t light up.
For Chris: This shows a Spanish agent who were sent in undercover to find out what the Algerians had to do with the weapons they found and if they were supplying the OWGU. But unfortunately the agent got caught and he got executed on camera.
Mistake! My trusty Brownie 127 was not moved on after taking one photo so a second was superimposed by accident over the top. Not a good photo but then not a bad one either!
Qantas Boeing 707s and BOAC VC-10s at London Heathrow Terminal 3 in 1971 in the days when you could look down on the aircraft. Ah! Bliss!
On a Drive around the Summit road on the Port Hills with my Flickr freind on a hot summers day in February. Christchurch New Zealand 2024.
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When you do commissions you always hope for the best but plan for the worst and this was the outcome of one of the bad times. We’d found the perfect colour to use but we later found out this was the last colour we should have used. After we had finished and dropped the piece off to the client we got a message back saying some of the spray paint was coming off the wood. We thought they must be mad as spray paint magically seems to go on anything or so we thought. Little did we know that the neon colours we used were made using some different type of alchemy to be produced and resulted in the paint flaking off the wood we were painting. After we got the piece back and started the remedial work needed to get the piece back to looking its best I happened to take these shots. Pretty but i must not forget it came out of disaster
Cheers
id-iom