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Day 1: Wicked Fruit.
Unannounced, comes the 4th Macro Week. Friday is the new Monday so here’s the first of 7 street-macro shots I took. I say ‘street-macro’ because all of these are taken of front garden plants or in one instance a tree. Just want to show that to take macro photos you don’t need to have plants…
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Where.
Third tool-box photo. The strange pillars are soft sanding tips for the drill. The silhouette is my miniature model (see my Gravatar). This photo is intentionally not monochrome, you can see some leaks of yellow on the left and red at the bottom.
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Kelmarsh Reenactment. (#30010)
I was invited to photograph the famous reenactment site in the UK – Kelmarsh. Unfortunately, because it is the UK, their plans of fighting in very heavy chain armour, with very heavy swords, and my plans of taking photos of their hard work from a comfortable-ish seat, were ruined by rain. I still managed some…
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Dynamic Portrait. (#29658)
Last photo from the 20,000’s. Playing pool in this pub, decided to take a photo of my friend shaking his head to see what comes of it. Decided to keep it and post it here because although the quality and the lighting is so-so, the way his static shoulders clash with the movement of hair…
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Disc.
My housemate was fitting his guitar with a piezo pick-up and a preamp (whatever those are) so he needed a drill. I took this as a wonderful opportunity to take some abstract macro shots. Here’s the first of the three.
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Lightroom Experiments: Sneak.
In this one I tried to make my own bokeh. The four spots on the red blood patch are actually adjustment brush points set to reduce saturation to 20% and increase exposure, with a very tiny amount of feathering. I tried to keep the size similar to the actual bokeh but they look a…
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Lightroom Experiments: Fire & Smoke.
Tried to use what the shot offered here. The column of bokeh in the background looked like a column of smoke to me so I worked around that. To me it looks like a huge ash pile on top of which is a bonfire that the guy in the background is huddling close to, but is…
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Lightroom Experiments: Down.
Quite similar to the previous post, tried to make the ricochets a bit more subtle and the gun flare a bit more realistic. The difficult part was getting a slight glow from the gun behind the rock. As for the non-edited bits, the flashgun was pointing down from the top of the brick at…
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Lightroom Experiments: Hit and Miss.
Not quite as elaborate as the first image in the series but here I tried to create relatively believable gunshot flares. The ricochet mark on the top left looks a little cartoony but I think that fits in quite well. A more subtle touch is the blood by the fallen soldier as well as reflections…
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Maks Swiderek 