Abstracts
I like playing around with things to get nice abstract images - marbles, water, potatoes, flour, springs - anything really.
The results vary, of course, but those I like, I’ll put here:
I was in the mood to take lots of photos today, but the weather’s a bit bland, so I went and bought lots of colourful bits and bobs from tesco to mess about with.
This is my first success of the day. I might upload more later on if I pull anything good out of the bag 
Technical info: iso 100, f/4, 1/60s, tripod, external flash bounced off white wall.
This is at a weir near Pillings Lock, in between Barrow upon Soar and Loughborough. I’ve been playing around recently with two neutral density filters (basically expensive bits of dark plastic that fit into a holder over the lens) to darken everything so I can take long exposure shots during the day. This is a .9 stop filter and a .6 stop filter laid over each other to give me a 1.5 stop filter (or at least I think that’s how it should work).
The result… nice blurry water in the daytime. Huzzah!
Technical info: iso 100, f/23, tripod, 3 shot hdr processed in photomatix pro
The weather has been absolutely foul for the last few days, and I’ve been working hard, so not too many opportunities have presented themselves. I have just been tinkering around with some roses I bought Ali a couple of days ago, and I quite like this shot. It’s nothing earth shattering, but better than a punch in the face.
I reflected my flash off a big piece of white plastic I got from an art shop a couple of years ago, sprayed the rose with an atomiser from the shed, and tweaked the contrast a little. I found I had to go up to ISO 200 to get a decent level of brightness, because the macro focusses so close I couldn’t bounce quite enough light at the rose at 100. Still, 200’s OK.
Technical info: ISO 200, f/22, 1/60s, tripod.
I had some fun today playing around my macro lens and reflecting a flash off some big bits of coloured plastic - is it immediately obvious what this is?
Technical info - iso 100, f/22, 1/200s, outboard flash used (sigma EF-500 DG ST), tripod.
More silly marbles - as before, just marbles in a wine glass full of fizzy water, shot from various angles.
Technical info: iso 100, f/22, tripod, 3 shot HDR processed in photomatix pro
I had a fun couple of hours earlier this year playing around with a bag of marbles - this is one of my favourite shots (It’s still my desktop wallpaper, actually).
I filled a wine glass with fizzy water, plopped a load of marbles in it, lit it from behind with a lamp and proceeded to take hundreds of photos with my macro lens. It looks vaguely spacey, which pleases me!
Technical info: iso 100, f/22, tripod, 3 shot HDR processed in photomatix pro
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