Warning! Poor craftsmanship ahead. After seeing this video about using household lighting in cinematic work, I decided it was time to build a soft box (or something like it). So I went down to the local hardware shop, and picked up two things. a 3″ long 1/4 threaded carriage bolt ($0.29) two 1/4 nuts ($0.10 …
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365.4 The Jewel of Safety
Happy New Year! I couldn’t decide which of these should be today’s pic for the 365, so I give you two instead. As with previous entries, these were made with the 75-150mm f/3.5 E Series, reversed, with 49mm worth of extension tubes, ISO 100 for 0.6 seconds. Unlike earlier entries, I know these were shot …
365.3 Macro Bullet Bill
I found this spent .25 bullet in the courtyard a couple of weeks or a month ago. I looked down, and it was just laying there, perhaps left over from July 4th celebrations in the neighborhood, though how it escaped leaf blowers, vacuum cleaners, and my keen vision I’ll never know… Anyways, I thought it …
365.2 Macro Effervescence
I was feeling a bit off after work today, so I decided to plop some Airborne and shoot the bubbles right quick. I’m still playing with the extension tubes and macro reverse ring on the 75-150. Good times. I need to stop down the aperture quite a bit: this was shot at 3.5, and the …
365.1 Macro Mini Coconut Cream Pie
And so begins the 365 Project. I received a set of extension tubes and a macro reverse ring in the mail today, so what better time to start the 365? For this image, I used the 75-150mm f/3.5 E Series, reversed, and attached to 49mm worth of extension tubes. The subject is a set of …
The 5 Elements of Photography – the Lens and the Camera
Ok. The Light is perfect, there’s a Photographer, and a Subject worthy of capture. All of these things are, I believe, necessary to the creation of a photograph, but there are two other things that we need to have at hand to make the photograph a reality: a lens and a camera. The lens and the …
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The 5 Elements of Photography – the Subject
Ok. First, there is Light, and, second, a human to capture that light (by accident or with purpose). But light, in a void, is meaningless, and, indeed, it takes Two to Tango. So we need something to take a picture of, a fleeting moment or static to capture, to fix in a more permanent form than …
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