The third in my rainbow colour series following on from red and orange is yellow. An abstract shot of a patio umbrella taken through a patterned glass pane in a kitchen door.
I’ve always been fascinated with how patterned glass distorts shapes, in this case the focus is on the glass itself and the umbrella behind just provides the colour needed for the theme. It’s an abstract with detail in the imperfections in the glass.
I was taking some photos of the yellow lines on a rotary washing drier for my rainbow colour theme for the Photo365 project and this female blackbird came and sat on the edge. Unprepared and interrupted I got a few snaps. I was using a mirror lens so you can see the doughnut style catchlights in the out of focus background. It turns out I’d interrupted her as she was waiting for me to go so she could continue picking flying ants from the patio to feed to her young.
I went to a car boot sale this morning looking for old items for steam punk props. When I’d finished i took a few sneaky hipstamatic Up close candids. Four or five of my candids where actually looking right into the lens of the camera. I think they knew what I was doing, even though I though I was being discreet. 
A shot of the Victorian Bracebridge Pump House, with a shoot from a bramble and a blue sky. Taken today with the Olympus EP2 and Holga lens.
In my rainbow series my second shot is orange…and there’s nothing more orange than an orange! And to show that you don’t need expensive props the background is a bog standard Sainsbury’s plastic shopping bag.
No expenses spared on this one. I hope it inspires you to shoot simple pics.
It’s taken with the Pentax K5 and 16-45mm zoom.
Here is the sixth of 12 sets of pictures from my photo365 project. This one covers the month of June 2011.
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A busy old day means I’ve not had much time for my photo365 project and while I’m at home ideas are starting to become a little trickier, I really lacked inspiration this evening and then I thought of another theme. The Rainbow. So I will run a series of the colours starting with red. This is a still life taken of a red vase on a red plate on a red background. It’s also the first very red thing I’ve shot on the Pentax K-5 so I’m pleased it handles a difficult colour better than its predecessors. This is straight out of camera with just a small adjustment to levels.
A view from above a bed of poppies taken with the Olympus E-P2 and a Holga lens I’m reviewing. The vignette is natural result of the Holga lens design.
Another shot with a hand wave…taken for my photo365 project while out testing a new Holga effect lens for the Olympus Pen. You will be able to see a full review on ePHOTOzine in a few days.
I had a couple of red poppies appear in the garden today, and later in the day noticed Josh (ePHOTozine’s technical editor) had uploaded a camera review with pictures taken in a poppy field. I hadn’t realised we had any in the vicinity but this one was just up the road in Anston. So off I pooped this evening with the Pentax K-5 and a bag of lenses. My aim was to takes shots different to my normal one in focus blurred background poppy shots. I had the lens baby (failed), the ultra wide (failed), the macro (failed) and the Tamron 500mm mirror (result)
I’d hope to use the Tamron with the 2x flat field converter to get super compression but it just wasn’t giving me what I wanted, so I reverted back to the 500mm alone (gives 750mm equivalent on the K-5).
So here’s one of the shots. The mirror lens gives unusual Marmite (love or hate) out of focus highlights. In fact it puts a halo around any bright object too. So the stalks took on a new look. I love the scrambled effect it gives.
