Category: Macro
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Web deW.
It’s rare that I’m up early enough to take dew photos but this was another Ashton Court trip with the course. The class was playing with a zoom lens and I was just lying there, on the grass.
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Day 7: Green Hopper.
So I chased the sound of this little thing for around half hour until I got close enough (15cm) to take a photo. Grass in the way of the lens was a problem but I didn’t want to ‘use’ it this time (see previous post). Bonus ant top right.
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Day 6: The Twilight Zone.
Again with my foreground distortions. Here I used them as a vignette. Less subtle but less garish than a strong filter in LR.
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Day 5: Twilight Rose.
Photo taken at twilight. Focused on the front of the stigma. I’m not sure about the closed flower on the right but without it the photo looks a little bare.
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Day 4: Green with Envi.
Terrible anagram pun… A month after taking this photo I found out that the odd flower belongs to a vine. It’s really difficult to judge which part to focus on with these – similar with dandelions. I think focusing around 1/3 of the way into the flower looks best, the other alternatives being either the…
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Day 3: Bee Low.
Pardon the pun but this was a very low angle to shoot from. Similar to the beach photo, I was lying down, this time on wet grass. The drops of water are from very recent rainfall. No idea what the flower is, as always. Help much appreciated!
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Day 2: Phaenicia sericata
Fancy latin name for a common green bottle fly. Pro-tip for handheld insect photos: Use manual focus and spam the shutter button. Even if there’s no wind, breathing will put the focus off so with 20-40 shots you should have at least one in focus.
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Macro Week #7 – Day 1: Bournemouth.
I remember lying across pebbles, stretched out, people walking past and giving strange looks but what’s a shot without getting out of your comfort zone? The sea made some nice bokeh, as did wet pebbles though they also made the shot very uncomfortable to take. Probably my favourite from the Bournemouth trip anyway.
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Day 7: Sap.
What you see at the right bottom of the berry is not rain or dew. That’s solidified sap. I remember I used to eat cherry sap off the trees as a child… I wasn’t the most normal of children.
Maks Swiderek 