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No more POTD for at least a week, as we're going off to Samsø. I hope to bring back beautiful shots, but I don't know how much time I'll have to myself to shoot.
Showing posts with label macro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label macro. Show all posts
Sunday 16 May 2010
POTD 16/5 2010
No more POTD for at least a week, as we're going off to Samsø. I hope to bring back beautiful shots, but I don't know how much time I'll have to myself to shoot.
Wednesday 12 May 2010
POTD 11/5 2010
After a long absence, mostly due to me not shooting anything that I could put here (for reasons of quality and permissions), POTD is back with a sample from todays tulip shoot:
This is the result of the contorted setup shown in the previous post. Of course, I could have snipped the whole thing off and taken it inside for a studio shot, but I don't like to do that. Never the easy way for me... Besides, it would probably have caused a goodly amount of the dust to fall off.
What the picture of the setup doesn't show is how I light it: I bounce the flash right into my little fold-out bounce, using the white side. This gives a large enough lit area compared to the tiny subject that the light is appropriately rounded without being flat, and makes the details stand out clearly. Again, not the easiest way, particularly because the flash has a limited rotation ability. I look forward to having my own studio some day.
Moving the light a little bit around to illuminate the front of the left stem might have made it nicer, or it might have cut the drama down. I really like the yellow-on-deep-purple effect it has right now, it's one of my favorite color combinations.
This is the result of the contorted setup shown in the previous post. Of course, I could have snipped the whole thing off and taken it inside for a studio shot, but I don't like to do that. Never the easy way for me... Besides, it would probably have caused a goodly amount of the dust to fall off.
What the picture of the setup doesn't show is how I light it: I bounce the flash right into my little fold-out bounce, using the white side. This gives a large enough lit area compared to the tiny subject that the light is appropriately rounded without being flat, and makes the details stand out clearly. Again, not the easiest way, particularly because the flash has a limited rotation ability. I look forward to having my own studio some day.
Moving the light a little bit around to illuminate the front of the left stem might have made it nicer, or it might have cut the drama down. I really like the yellow-on-deep-purple effect it has right now, it's one of my favorite color combinations.
Tuesday 1 April 2008
FooPhoMo is ended!
At the beginning of March, quaryn_dk suggested that I try my new macro lens by taking exactly one picture a day of food. Having done so (outside of travelling and stuff), here are the results - in black & white for reasons of learning about that. Comments and favorites are welcome.
Saturday 26 May 2007
NFD phototrip
Went with NaturFotografer i Danmark to Uldum Kær, a wetland area near Horsens, this morning. Got up at three, was there just after four, when the sky was still reddening. Unfortunately, cloud cover was almost total, and we got no direct sunlight. There were many little lakes with iris, waterlilies, swans etc. While the landscape parts were limited due to lack of light (or fog), there was very little wind and macro was possible. Stayed there for 5 hours. Starting to think of a series about the dandelion.
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