Technique
« Previous EntriesDipping a Toe in the HDR Pond
Friday, July 2nd, 2010After much thought and some time being convinced, I have finally decided to add HDR to my box of tools. The following shot was taken a few weeks ago while on vacation in Yosemite National Park. While it looks like a river flowing through a forest, it’s not an easy shot to take. The difficulty [...]
Trying out a New Magazine
Thursday, June 24th, 2010When I’ve been on business travel the past year, I’ve been buying up different photography magazines at bookstores. My last trip to California for work, I stopped in at Borders one evening and bought another load of them. One in particular has been very enjoyable- it’s called Practical Photography, and it hails from the UK. [...]
Travel Photography- Yosemite
Sunday, June 20th, 2010I just got back from a trip to Yosemite National Park. It’s a wonderland, and I tried some new tricks there (for me- future articles coming on that). Just a sneak peek at one of my better shots- this shot below was taken our first night in the park- we were driving back from watching [...]
Depth Stacking in Macro Photography, Part 2
Friday, May 7th, 2010Macro Photography is a big subject area, and Depth Stacking is complicated at first. I wanted to elaborate more on the process of how I got a great shot of a stink bug with my simple, 50mm Sigma macro lens. To illustrate my method, here is a picture of the bug from the side, so [...]
Depth Stacking in Macro Photography
Saturday, May 1st, 2010I’ve been meaning to write a more proper article on Depth Stacking in Macro Phography- having referenced it in the past. Macro Photography is not for the beginner, though you can get some tantalizing results even so. When taking macro photos, you are pushing the limits of the system. Macro photography can be exacting if [...]
What’s Your Specialty or Passion?
Friday, March 12th, 2010I imagine most photographers and budding photographers have a preferred subject matter when it comes to taking pictures. There are lots of genres, and each can take a while to become comfortable with, and a long time to become an expert at them. Of the genres I can think of off the top of my [...]
DSLR’s and Macro- Sensor Reflection Problem
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Since I’ve been doing extreme macro lately, I’ve run into a perplexing problem. In some cases, I see a magenta-tinted dot in the center of my images. I knew it was related to the lenses, but did not know specifically what was causing it- thinking it was an internal issue to the lenses. I also [...]
Super Macro #2
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Continuing on my macro journey to push the limits as far as I can, I went to eBay to see if I could find a better 28mm lens (the old FD mount)- one by Canon, instead of the cheap Albinar lens I bought 20 years ago when I was poorer and cheap. Albinar lenses were [...]
Super Macro 3D Setup
Thursday, January 14th, 2010In the Super Macro bit I wrote last week, I mentioned a bit about the setup I used to get that super-close-up of table salt, at 280x. Here is a photo of that setup. From right to left above: 28mm wide angle lens, in my case- an old Canon FD mount lens (by Albinar) Adapter [...]
Super Macro
Friday, January 8th, 2010I’ve been playing around recently with macro, trying to push further and further into the realm of the invisible, without making expensive investments in equipment. I will be detailing how to do this in a series of articles, but for a teaser, here is a shot I took last evening of something simple lying around [...]
