A candid shot from yesterday. Kids in our neighborhood has a biweekly community event and one of my friend has volunteered to dress up as Santa to bring cheer/excitement in kids. I had an opportunity to shoot some pictures and really liked this one.
Kids had no idea about Santa’s visit and I want to capture the excitement on their faces. So had to sneak behind Santa for this spontaneous shot.
It’s summer and Japanese Beetles are here 🙁
One good thing about these nasty beetles – they only live for 2 weeks. So this evening I was on a mission to shoot Japanese Beetles. In particular, I want to make use of my BR-2A reverse ring adapter.
It was quite sunny outside and decided to have this shot indoors. So I had to catch one that won’t move much and found one little beetle that wasn’t moving much – perhaps he fed too much on the leaves.
I already had my camera set on the tripod with Nikkor 28mm lens reverse mounted. So had this beetle rest on a bark mulch and had him move in front of the reverse mounted lens until he was on focus – it’s a bit of a challenge with the reverse mounted lens as things go out of focus within few centimeters.
Took about 30 shots and of those, I liked this one the best.
And the experimentation with the light continues…
As I was getting ready to bed last night, I noticed the speck of light creeping in through the closed door. So I thought I should try it out for today’s photo post.
Used 28mm manual Nikkor for this try out. Shot this at f/5.6 @13sec exposure.
I really like those perpendicular lines towards the bottom…have to say it again “Life is made of Math & Science“
This is a bonus picture for day 120.
Those are peonies in my front yard ready to bloom. We had an almost perfect weather early this evening and thought I should try out my craiglist bought Nikon 28mm manual lens. Later I found it was too windy. So when the wind had calmed down a bit, I took this shot of peonies about to bloom.
Had to take our daughter to her music class this evening. On our way back home, my wife took this picture as we were riding the Daniel Boone Bridge in Chesterfield. As I had set my camera mounted with manual Nikkor f/2.8 lens set to f/2.8, the frame at the closest end turned out rather soft – albeit it turned out pretty good 😉