Archive for the ‘Experimental’ Category
Happy New Year!
{click image to view large} The other night, while walking home, I had fun with holiday lights. This image is the result of panning 1/4 sec. hand held @ f5.6, ISO 3200—and makes me think of fireworks. May you enjoy many wondrous opportunities to photograph throughout the coming year! — Colors of the day: Red [...]
In: Experimental · Tagged with: Christmas, holiday, night
Winter Willow
[¹] {click images to view large} Inspired by Marti Jeffer’s work, these images were created panning handheld at 1/4 sec with just a touch of motion. Starting at 1/2 sec with broad camera movement vertically, the results intrigued me with color and line—but didn’t have much detail. A faster shutter speed with much less movement [...]
In: Experimental · Tagged with: Landscape, tree, winter
Shoebox Series №6—Bird’s Nest
[¹] {click image to view large} Today was “severely clear,” as Craig Tanner would say, but too nice to stay indoors. I opted for the shoebox camera, which needs a lot of light, loaded with a different kind of paper that doesn’t show a grain. Those sheets of paper are now treasured, because I like [...]
In: Experimental · Tagged with: nest, shoebox, tree
Cattails
[¹] One reason I bought a Nikon DSLR is because it offers in-camera multiple exposures—a feature I’ve not yet spent much time exploring. Experiments this morning resulted in today’s image, which is a 6-shot multiple: one panning and two still (for definition), in each of two positions on the tripod. I shot a lot of [...]
In: Experimental · Tagged with: cattails, multiple exposure, Still Life
Shoebox Series №5—Under the Viaduct
[¹] Today being Sunday, and the halfway point of this November challenge, I decided to give myself a treat: sleep in and wait for sunrise (now 6:40AM) before going out to play. This scene was photographed with the box on a tripod about 10 minutes after sunrise. Distortion of the lights is caused by the [...]
In: Experimental · Tagged with: Architecture, shoebox, viaduct
Shoebox Series №4—Panorama
[¹] Today’s image is a shoebox panorama. Photoshop wasn’t able to stitch the individual frames, so post-processing involved some heavy lifting. Though perhaps not worth that effort for this particular image, from both capture and processing I’ve learned things to take forward. The frames for this pano were captured on a tripod! Before heading out, [...]
In: Experimental · Tagged with: Architecture, Landscape, panorama, shoebox
Shoebox Photography—Textures
[¹] Andreas commented: It would mean to open/close the box and probably disturb the whole arrangement with every shot, but of course there is a great potential of crinkles and other irregularities that one could apply to the screen. Oh, yes! Today’s image is of three textures using tracing paper as the projection screen: grain, [...]
In: Experimental · Tagged with: shoebox, texture