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.
Posted in abstract, macro.
Tagged with dew, droplets, flower, macro, moisture, red, rose, water.
This was my favourite bit of the stained glass windows I was snapping away at on Saturday. At this point, I was balancing my tripod on three pews, and standing on the backs of them in my socked feet (it felt too wrong to stand on a pew in my shoes - it’s weird for an Atheist to be mucking around unsupervised in a church - you have no idea when you’re committing some sort of sacrelige).
Worth it, though, I think. I love the colours in these shots.
An addendum… when I was taking shots of the altar, I had my new tripod raised up to its highest setting (about 7 foot), and I turned around to look at something, and the whole tripod with new 450d and my favourite sigma 10-20 toppled over and smashed on the flagstones. I was certain at first that both camera and lens were dead - but tried the camera and it seemed OK. The lens was clearly completely broken, so I came home and started to make insurance investigations. I was told to ring back on monday, so I started playing with the lens thinking a photo of its broken body might be an idea - and I tried levering the filter off - and was absolutely astonished to find the rest of the lens was intact. It looked with the filter on like all the lens glass had smashed (and when I shook it, there was loads of rattling) - it turned out that only the filter was broken, and the rattling was just some tiny pieces of filter glass - so thank God, I am saved from spending £320 on a new sigma! W00t!
Technical info: f/11, iso 200, tripod, 3-shot HDR processed in photomatix pro.
Posted in architecture, details, hdr.
Tagged with coloured glass, crossed swords, glass, photomatix, red, stained glass window, swords.
I’ve been down to the park a couple of times recently in the hope of getting some nice photographs - I’ve failed miserably each time - until I managed this one today, which is the first I really like.
The autumn colours have been looking so good that I really wanted to capture them, but all my compositions have ended up being distinctly uninspiring. I was ambling around after bothering the birds in the aviary when I spotted this, and had a go.
Technical info: ISO 200, f/11, hand held 3 shot HDR processed in photomatix pro
Posted in hdr, landscape.
Tagged with autumn, leaves, loughborough, queens park, red, trees.
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