A moment in the pub as the person was checking facebook or something similar that interrupts human interaction.
This is part of my photo365 project which can be followed daily throughout the year and taken with a mobile phone.
Peter Bargh
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My cat never likes having his photo taken. He always seems to turn away when the lens is pointed at him. There’s no way I could get him to sit and pose. Yesterday I’d planned to take a portrait. I followed him around the garden. He sat down I pointed the camera…he got up and walked to another spot. He laid down, I pointed the camera – he turned his head. I moved position he turned back. He is Simon’s cat!
Anyway today I was out taking some shots with and of a tripod I was testing and I saw him watching. So I pointed the camera around and took a crafty grab shot. He didn’t have time to work out I’d turned my attention on him. Gotcha!
As it’s a rarity I’ve made it my photo of the day for my photo365 project. His name’s Diesel.
was trying different lens combinations on a Nikon D700. I was using an unusual adaptor that used to be made by BPM that allows a male and female mount to be attached back to back. With the adaptor and suitable mounts you can attach any lens to any body. I tried enlarging lenses using a Leica 39mm adaptor, then screw thread lenses using an M42 adaptor, then an old Pentax 135mm f/3.5 lens using a K mount. It was at this point that I took the photo that will be today’s photo365 picture.
It’s a really simple shot but I like the way the light hits the surfaces creating a really striking abstract. It’s a door frame with the light on the edge( the vertical line), and in the background is an out of focus open curtain. and window. This was the first shot I took and lead me to do a series of abstracts all featuring simple designs of interiors, all abstract and all bold like this.
It’s out of the camera with no editing, full frame, no exposure adjustments, no colour change.
Just a bit of fun today, a macro shot of the surface of a lemon taken with an old 75mm enlarging lens on a 200mm extension tube. I thought it looked like the surface of a planet so shot at the edge and then merged a shot of the moon I took recently (blurred to make it look more realistic.
And all converted to black & white
My second Photo365 picture of a daffodil. The last one was as the sun set, this one was late afternoon. The garden was full of colour the sun was brilliant, the sky deep blue. All the daffs were glowing. I took a variety of shots from low angles using the Olympus E-P2 and 17mm lens and deliberately shot into the sun to get flare. I liked this one because of the multitude of vapour trials. I guessed the composition on all the shots as it I couldn’t see the LCD because the camera was low to the ground and pointing upwards.
Exposure was 1/500sec at f/11 and ISO400.
I was doing a few tests with the Fujifilm X100 today and decided to shoot my favourite oldie – the Leica IIIf
The shot was converted to black & white in Lightroom and subtly toned.
I remember seeing this type of shot for the first time in the late 90s when I was editing Digital PhotoFX magazine and have been to have a go myself, so I positioned some shoes on a cloth background. photographed them and then took a second shot switching the boots for my feet so they’d be in the same position when I come to merge in Photoshop.
I then used two layers and masks to blend the two, then added a texture layer and blended that.
Had to take advantage of the supermoon tonight. Every 18 years or so the moon is closet to the earth known as its perigree. At this time it appear about 14% larger and 30 percent brighter.
I took this shot using a Pentax K10D with a Tamron 500mm mirror lens and 2x flat field converter. The combination gives an effective magnified crop equivalent to 1500mm.
The shutter speed was 1/320sec at ISO200. The Tamron mirror has a fixed aperture of f/8 and the 2x adds two stops making an equivalent of f/16.
The light this evening was beautiful so I extended my daily walk to Bracebridge Pumping Station. I’d planned to get a shot from outside the fenced area, but some vandals had cut a hole in it so I was able to go closer. This is some scrap metal in one of the water reserves to its side with the reflection of the Victorian building as the background.
I took several shots with the Olympus EP2 and 17mm pancake lens and a different viewpoint is in my ePHOTOzine profile : Bracebridge Pumping Station
Later nights, daffodils and sunsets, all signs spring is here! And all captured in this shot taken 30min ago. I also tried out a new filter technique I’ve been meaning to do using wedding veil material over the lens to give a soft mesh diffuser. It’s made an interesting muting of colours but also added a very fine pattern to the highlights.
The low angle ensured the setting sun is present in the background adding a golden glow to the shot.
This is part of my Photo365 project – a project I started on January first where I take and upload a photo each day.