Creative Photography

[briantrumpet]

I'm not entirely sure why, or even if, this works. But I like it for the accumulation of details.
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Those courgettes are very well behaved, waiting for you to put the leads on before you take them for a walk.

 

[Way-Out-West]

Since there was virtually no wind, I managed to do a focus stack on these seed heads. The compression uploading to here has destroyed the detail

 

[briantrumpet]

Deeply uncreative, and the colours are nothing like it actually was at 5.30am this morning (I couldn't sleep), but it's still not bad for handheld on a £200 camera (the Sony HX-60). It's not as approximate around the edges as it sometimes is.

 

[briantrumpet]

Since there was virtually no wind, I managed to do a focus stack on these seed heads. The compression uploading to here has destroyed the detail
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Did you use a tripod? I still haven't tried the focus stacking on the OM.

 

[Way-Out-West]

Did you use a tripod? I still haven't tried the focus stacking on the OM.

Yeah I used a tripod, but I was using old gear and manually focusing. I took 5 shots, but only needed 4 of them. My shutter speed was only a 1/15 sec so I needed a tripod anyway.
I think it is possible to do focus stacking handheld on a modern setup especially when the shutter speed is fast, but one rogue shot could spoil the stack. With a true 1:1 macro or more I imagine a tripod would make things a lot easier.

 

[briantrumpet]

Yeah I used a tripod, but I was using old gear and manually focusing. I took 5 shots, but only needed 4 of them. My shutter speed was only a 1/15 sec so I needed a tripod anyway.
I think it is possible to do focus stacking handheld on a modern setup especially when the shutter speed is fast, but one rogue shot could spoil the stack. With a true 1:1 macro or more I imagine a tripod would make things a lot easier.

I will have to have a go with the OM at some stage when I'm bored and not feeling really lazy.

 

[Way-Out-West]

I’d have preferred to find some mushrooms growing out of some decaying wood, rather than dealing with the pesky ground dwelling ones.
I ordered one of those RGB LED lights which hasn’t arrived yet. Hope it works better than my smartphone torch which left a rather unflattering look to the shots I used it on.

 

[Way-Out-West]

H E A T W A V E. Well, It was a pleasant 29C which is a scorchio for these parts.

 

[Way-Out-West]

Mushroom focus stack, a leaf 'skeleton' and possibly my last bee shot of the summer. I think I'll leave it at that for a while.

 

[briantrumpet]

Fantastic shots, WoW, thanks 👍

 

[Pross]

Weekend away and a trip to Dolgoch falls. Tricky conditions for photographing them with so much contrast and having no tripod or filters. The old debate from BR days was whether waterfalls look better as a fast shutter speed to capture the image of what you see or the ethereal look of a longer exposure. First is taken at 1/320 second, F7.1 and ISO 4000 and the second is 1/3 second, F25 and ISO 640.

 

[Pross]

Impressed with how my phone dealt with this tunnel.

 

[briantrumpet]

Cheers!

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm starting to get the hang of what the OM macro will do, and how to use its very narrow depth-of-field artistically.

 

[briantrumpet]

Slightly unreal - just photographed in situ, totally natural lighting (high window in a tall room) in a virtually unused side-room in a church in Crest.