After coming across several beautiful pictures by Gheorghe Chesler—shot with various Nikons and featuring his Sigma 150mm f/2.8 Macro—over on Google Plus yesterday evening, I found myself lusting after a proper macro lens… But I reminded myself: no new gear until I finish the 365. So I looked over the gear I do have, and pulled …
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Feeling better today. Didn’t make the time, or put in the thought, to get the picture I wanted, since the only idea I had didn’t work very well, but I did manage to learn some things about the general method I used, so a proof of concept is great. One thing… Why is only the …
As part of the renovations following the broken pipe and large hole in my bedroom floor, the apartment owners installed a new chandelier in the dining area. The new chandelier is much fancier than the old chandelier, which was not really a chandelier at all, to be honest, but more of a table lamp, inverted, …
So… I’m very happy with this one. It’s just so soft and friendly and cuddly-looking, like a big fluffy comforter, perhaps, or a large pit full of large balls of yarn. At the same time, there’s something menacing about it too, that I only just noticed when looking at it at 1/10th size in the …
Is there something wrong with listening to Shattered so many times that I can now understand most all of the lyrics? Or does it matter? D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron), in Macro mode at about 1:5ish, and handheld (that thing is heavy). ISO400, 1/20th (AP Mode… lazy), f/3.5. Minimal levels adjustment, and a boost to the …
I’d like to have a better title for this—something about the dark and scary forest in which live all manner of unicorns and rainbows and fluffy bunnies and whatnot, perhaps—but I couldn’t really come up with anything, and I have very little to say about it at all, other than ‘here it is!’ D7000. LensBaby …
Back to the macro… but I tried something interesting this time: I took two shots (one at 1/3 second, the other at 1/13th, both ISO800 and f/11) and then tried to use the ‘Merge to HDR Pro” function in Photoshop. Alas, something shifted, and Ps was unable to align them properly. So I opened them …
