Continuing with my summer blooms shots 😉
Shot this at a park close home. As I was experimenting with my POV, I noticed the lighting on this particular plant was interesting. There were tall grasses behind these bushes and with the evening sunlight half of this particular bush was in shade and the other half was well-lit.
Really liked the way the lighting turned out in this shot. I think it gives a feel that this bloom was lit by a flash.
It’s been quite some time now, since the last time I did still life photography.
As I was looking for subject(s) for my shot, what got my attention was these little clementines. They are sweet and interesting photographic subject as well.
Shot this with window lighting using my 60mm macro lens.
It’s Sunday and had some spare time for a foodie shot.
I struggled a bit to come up with this composition. Originally tried these piled atop a rice and didn’t like that composition.
Then thought I should build a shrimp tower atop the rice bed..that didn’t work either. So went for this arrangement with the shrimp tower resting on a plate. Used some sliced English Cucumber in this composition to bring in colors and contrast the vertical shrimp tower.
I am quite pleased with this outcome and yes this was delicious 🙂
As I was looking for macro subject for today’s post what caught my attention was my daughter’s scarf.
Upon close observation I saw a pattern and a wonderful texture. Had this shot with 60mm macro @f/11 using window loighting.
That ‘s a red grape fruit…
As I was working on my shot this evening, I wan’t to try a different composition with this grapefruit – rather than the usual strait forward shot of a half cut grapefruit.
Then I thought may be I should capture different shapes – that’s how I ended up with this composition that shows a semicircle and a circular shape of grapefruit.
Had to add few bananas in the background just to pop out the reds on the grapefruit.
That’s a macro shot of exposed roots on our Arabian Jasmine plant. I like the cluttery feel in this shot.
I did find it interesting to see new shoots coming up from the exposed root system.
Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photograph featuring a diagonal line or series of diagonal lines. Pull our attention through the photograph.
For TDS assignment, I want to shoot a diagonal line formed by an every day subject – that made me think for a while this evening. Then I saw my daughter with her evening cup of warm water in a tea cup. That’s how I ended up with shooting tea cup.
Tried with a straw/tea-cup/water to form a diagonal line – but due to shallow depth, and being light in weight, the straw didn’t workout. So ended up using a tiny silver spoon to form a diagonal line with tea cup and water.
Used Nikkor 60mm macro @f/3.3 to shoot this.
Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photo of a tool today. Screwdriver. Pliers. Computer. What’s the tool you find most important on a daily basis?
When I saw this TDS: Tool assignment this AM, what came to mind was my 5+ year old amazon.com bought, $10.00 swiss army knife 😉
I find it useful in one way or the other (although not everyday) and is real versatile tool that goes with me everywhere.
The challenge was how do I shoot it to make it look interesting. So had it rest against a cut kiwi fruit to bring in more color to this composition.
Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photograph of something you eat today. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack. Make it look tasty.
Had a chance to try potato straws that we had bought from Costco last week. That was the snack for this evening and the subject for TDS assignment.
It was definitely tasty but not sure if I had shot this to look tasty 😉
As I was watering the plants in our yard this evening, I saw the spent flowers in our rose bush and one of them has shed all it’s petal and had this ‘star’ like pattern – I am guessing Japanese Beetles have devoured the flowers.
Had this shot with Nikkor 60mm macro – originally tried with Sigma 150mm and 50mm prime but I like the one shot with Nikkor 60mm macro better than the others.
That reminds me that I am behind on dead heading the spent flowers 😉