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.
I had a hospital appointment this morning. It was at the Doncaster Royal Infirmary. They have problems with parking space and a few years ago opened a large 500 capacity park & ride at the Racecourse. You park for free and then catch a bus to the hospital.
I took advice from the leaflet that said if you feel like some exercise you can walk to the hospital. It’s just 1.2m. The trouble is I hadn’t planned for my new shoes being so uncomfortable. Those that dig in at the heel and quickly create blisters!
On the walk back from the hospital they were really beginning to sting…and then some random woman stopped me and gave me a leaflet with the title – Suffering Soon to End. How did she know? Was there going to be some miraculous shoe exchange and foot massage?
Alas, the suffering continued…the leaflet was from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Instead of foot recovery I was going to “possess the earth and reside forever upon it”.
I stopped at the road side to ponder my good fortune and took this photo on the iPhone. I included the stars of the show – my torturing shoes.
I took the iphone out on my walk tonight and loaded it with the Hipstamatic app.
I walked round the back of town and found this site in a small portion of land squeezed between two properties. It’s amazing how anyone can dump stuff in such public places and not feel any sense of shame.
As someone who could not drop a sweet wrapper on the floor, this disgusts me.
This morning was one of those days when you reach for the milk and realise the last drop has gone, and then while looking for the butter spot that the empty tub is in the bin. So breakfast is void of a couple of slices of toast with butter or cereal. Fortunately we had some eggs, so I switched into boiling mode and get a pan on the hob. Several minutes later I had one of my childhood favourites boiled egg and soldiers.
I’ve always been able to perfect the running yoke / solid white consistency and was soon dunking bread. But before I went too far I thought it’s time to take my photo365 photo. – boiled egg and soldiers.
