Archive for May, 2010
We met in the park…
{click image to view large} This capture, toward the end of April, was inspiration for the idea of context I mentioned in “One Morning in Spring”. It was photographed using a Canon 500D Close-Up Adapter on a Nikkor 18-200mm f3.5/f.6 lens. That combination allows me to get close and shoot wide with a shallow depth [...]
In: Experimental · Tagged with: crabapples, flower, spring, toning
“S” is for Spring
{click image to view large} This image was photographed May 1st. I’m having too much fun shooting, and am behind on processing! Actually, I feel the need to process as much as shoot because each informs the other. Processing shows up weaknesses (or strengths) in a composition that I didn’t necessarily see in the field, [...]
In: Nature · Tagged with: crabapples, flower, spring
Frieze
{click images to view full panoramas} The image above is detail from a 7-frame panorama photographed in a very old cemetery. (See also a large view on black .) Tripods are not allowed, so it was shot hand-held in portrait mode with a lot of overlap and wriggle room around the subject. To help reduce [...]
In: Nature · Tagged with: Architecture, ivy, panorama, spring
One Morning in Spring
{click image to view large} After so many hours photographing subjects in isolation this winter, I’m excited about what is (for me) a new approach: to show a subject in context. That probably sounds obvious to other photographers! It’s difficult to define the shift in my thinking, and I hesitate to nail it down before [...]
In: Nature · Tagged with: crabapples, flare, flower, spring