Just a small gratuitous piece of color on a Sunday evening, before I get back to work after a long weekend. This was another macro from crawling around on my belly during November’s Indy Flickr walk at Eagle Creek Reservoir.
I don’t have any thanksgiving images to show today. No images of turkey, or feasts spread out across the table. Just a simple, serene scene that clears out the ever-present clutter and noise in our lives that distracts us from remembering how many things we have to be thankful for.
I spent a fair bit of Saturday’s Indy Flickr walk at Eagle Creek crawling around on my stomach, looking for interesting things to take macros of. I got a very nice Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro lens in trade last year around this time, and really haven’t used it all that much. Saturday I [...]
One reason I dropped updating this blog for a while earlier this year was that I’m running this blog as a do-it-yourself endeavor, running Wordpress on the backend, with a design that I modified and tweaked to give it the look that I like, with Laughing Squid hosting it. It’s the control freak in me.
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This is another example of how I think occasionally breaking the rules creates a more powerful image. In this case (like the one I wrote about earlier) I was shooting into the sun. This time though I was using an infrared filter, and getting a lot of lens flare which is usually the fastest way [...]
For the most part at this point, I prefer this type of rich black and white image from shooting infrared. Too many of the false color infrared images that I see look quite striking when I first see them, but they don’t seem to hold up over time. Black and white has a minimalist quality [...]
I still experiment occasionally with infrared photography, using a Hoya R72 filter on my Canon 300D (the original Digital Rebel). I haven’t spent a lot of time shooting IR, mainly because I’ve gotten tired of needing to plan out the long exposures necessary when using an unmodified camera. Too often, the results aren’t what I [...]
… or beachcombing.
Wow, it’s been quite a while since I paid any attention to my little blog. Really just a confluence of a lot of little things that piled up and conspired to keep me from posting. Things are settling out a bit though, and I’m getting back into the creative groove that I feel [...]
