For today’s photo post(s) I used a soft focus filter to create a dream-like effect on these cherries. As it was too bright and I didn’t have a neutral density filter to bring down the light, used a polarizer filer – as I know it brings down the light by 2 f:stops. Had to use a white reflector board to lighten up the shadows.
There is one more photo post for day 152 –> here.
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I got the idea for this post from a cover image on Cooks Illustrated magazine. Used a soft focus filter combined with polarizer filter to create this shot.
Day 151: 1/3
I was cleaning up my closet this noon and found bunch of computer hardware stuff that I don’t need anymore. As I was snapping pictures for selling them, I found some interesting patterns on these.
That’s a snapshot of a printed circuit board on a hard-drive. I found the colors and the imprints to be interesting.
Today I decided to shoot a moonbeam flower about to bloom with 2 different point of view(s) aka POV.
Here is one that looks almost flat – looking from the top call this as aerial view. Not much interesting, isn’t it?
Does that look better? – not as “flat” as the earlier one. Just by changing the angle, you can make things/subjects look interesting 😉
No it’s not a green serpent 😉
It’s a harmless garlic scape in my back yard. I was planting some annuals and cleaning up my yard this morning and found these garlic scape(s). Will have to try these garlic scape in stir fry tomorrow 🙂
It’s Friday and I had sometime to burn this evening. So spent my free time on this little experiment with mirror and $1 coin.
I had this one dollar coin and had this stand atop a hand mirror in such a way I could see the reflection of the coin. Now since the mirror was looking up the ceiling, it was boring plain white – so I had the camera (on a timer) set on a tripod and was holding a blue cardboard right above the mirror/coin setup. With this setup when the camera shutter clicked I was able to capture the mirror image of the coin with the blue background – it kind of gives the feel that the coin sits atop a blue mirror, doesn’t it?
Used spot metering and shot this @f/45.0 and 6sec exposure to bring in the details.
I was pleasantly surprised this evening when I saw all the blooms in my yard – it’s been just 2 days since I was out of town and it just feels like a long time.
All the peonies were in full bloom and I couldn’t resist myself with shooting Sarah Bernhart Peony for today’s post. Just followed the same procedure as detailed in my earlier Peony posts to shoot this.
I am blogging from Chicago today/tomorrow.
I had a chance to go on a photo walk this morning in Michigan Ave. It has been quite some time now since my last photo walk in St. Charles, MO. Photo walks are fun – I feel like I’m a tourist during photo walks 😉
I took this picture in the park located next to the Art Institute of Chicago. I really liked the atmosphere there – it was calm & relaxing. I ended up going there again this evening with my daughter.
We have this old sewing machine that’s about 7+ years old. We were cleaning up the closet and the sewing machine mechanism caught my eyes. The moment I saw it, I knew I want to do a macro shot of the needle plate, foot and transporter of our sewing machine.
Used natural window lighting to shoot this at f/16 for 1/2s exposure.