When I loaded this into the computer, my first thought was “That looks like a Jeff Koons painting!”
I’m somewhat less sure about that now, but it does look painted, does it not?
Well, it wasn’t.
D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron, maybe), in Macro mode. ISO100, 1/10th, f/3.5. Pop-up set in Commander mode, and the SB-700, SU-4’d, at 1/64th. Less than 20 seconds of slider play in Aperture.
I haven’t posted a picture of one or another of the cats of late, so I thought today’s I’mreallynotquitefeelingit picture could remedy that.
It’s not quite in focus, but I doubt Olive minds much, and sof-focus techniques tend to work rather well for such beautiful subjects.
D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron, maybe), in Macro mode. ISO800, 1/5th, f/3.5, -1EV. About 30 seconds of slider play in Aperture.
I really expected to be frantically trying to find something to shoot for the 365 about now, but (and thankfully) I decided to check and see if any of the run-grab-the-camera-before-the-nice-neighbor-lady-freed-the-trapped-butterfly grab shots grabbed my attention…
Exactly one was in focus.
Exactly one had a reasonable composition.
Given this was shot by prefocusing on the handle of the door (about 3 feet above this), then crouching and pointing the camera in the general direction of where I thought I might get a decent shot, and given that I only made 3 pictures (one, before this, had no butterfly at all; one after this had the butterfly mostly in the black frame section), and given that I shot this at f/1.4 with the Sigma 30mm, I think I did a pretty flipping good job.
Go me.
D7000. Sigma 30mm f/1.4. ISO100, 1/2000th (AP mode), f/1.4, -1EV. A very slight crop, and about 2 minutes of slider play (a slight dodge of the butterfly body, and some levels adjustments) in Aperture.
And anyone have any idea why Aperture didn’t record the EXIF on this one? I reuploaded the original file, and got the EXIF data just fine. I hope this isn’t an indication of some strange Aperture bug, especially after finding that iTunes is still randomly deleting music from my external storage with absolutely no indication (other than the ! when I go to play the missing tracks, and the CCC archives I have set up).
This was shot for the Nature in Monochrome event on Google+, sort of at the last minute, and only after I found out that the pictures I made earlier in the day were mis-focused.
I guess this works, in a sort of noir kinda way, but I’m not very pleased with it. Oh well.
D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Zomb-E Series. ISO100, 1/125th (AP mode), f/3.5, -1EV. Black & White conversion and maybe 5 minutes of slider play in Aperture.
Well, I intended to make another ghostwalker attempt this morning, but I got a late start (by ~2 minutes or less), so I decided to try this again.
I don’t know about you, but I think yesterday’s attempt was better. It’s not that I don’t like this one, and it’s closer to my vision, but it’s just not doing it for me.
Oh well. It’s already past my dinner time, and since I’m wiped out from a day of frustration at work and signing a lease on a new apartment and creeping through late afternoon neighborhood traffic, I’m not going to keep trying.
D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron, maybe). ISO100, 1/8th (AP mode), f/3.5. About 2 minutes of slider play in Aperture.
I think I got it… I may still try again, but this one’s close.
There could be a bit more separation between the stream and the arm behind it, and I could probably stand to minimize the bokeh balls that sort of distract from the stream at the bottom, but this is pretty close to what I was looking for, so GoGo Me.
D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron, maybe), in Macro Mode. ISO100, 1/200th (AP mode), f/3.5. About 5 minutes of slider play in Aperture (plus a strange hang on the computer from an unknown cause that I’ll investigate shortly) to get something really pretty and artistic going.
Apologies for not putting more effort into today’s pic. After working 9.5 hours, I went and viewed an apartment I’m thinking of moving to (probably will move to), then went to the grocery store, and by the time I got home, it was time to make dinner. I spotted this nice light on the entryway, and snapped a phone shot rather than fetching the big boy camera.
I like the colors, but that’s about it.
iPhone4. Built-In Camera, in hdr mode. Two shots combined in TrueHDR; emailed to the desktop; perspective corrected (poorly), and contrast/levels adjusted in PhotoShop; then a bit of slider play in Aperture.
