Posted on December 24, 2021
Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is animals, either wild or farmed. We are encouraged to be creative, however, so here is an image of an elaborate wall hanging that’s on display in the Japanese galleries of the Victoria & Albert Museum (the V&A) in London.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Farm or wild animals
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Black And White Photography, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, elephants, Japanese, V&A
Posted on April 7, 2021
Cee’s theme for the Fun Foto Challenge this week is the size comparison of objects.
From Madame’s extensive collection of elephants:
Inevitably, this challenge reminded me of some classic Father Ted (for the uninitiated, one of the finest UK sitcoms of the past forty years)
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Size Comparison
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, elephants, size comparison
Posted on March 3, 2021
A hungry (when are they not?) young elephant at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Ate or Eight
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Eating, elephants, Syd, Taronga Zoo
Posted on February 20, 2019
Cee’s Fun ‘Foto’ Challenge for this week has the theme of ‘texture’.
This is a detail from an embroidered bag that I saw on display at the ‘Pour L’amour du Fil’ expo in Nantes a couple oof years ago.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Texture
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, elephants, embroidery, Quilting, Texture
Posted on August 18, 2017
Cee’s topic this week is ‘small subjects’. So here are a pair of elephants.
I should explain that this carving – part of Madame’s extensive elephant collection – is in fact only about an inch long.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Small Subjects
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Carving, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, elephants, ornaments, Small
Posted on February 22, 2017
Madame just loves elephants, and she loves sewing (quilting in particular) too. So when we saw this thimble decorated with a baby elephant, well it just had to join the collection.
Nikon D800 with Nikkor 105mm ƒ2.8 lens at ƒ3.3. 1/125 with built-in flash. ISO 1000. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments Week 32
Category: Macro Tagged: elephants, Macro, Macro Lens, Macro Moments, Quilting, thimble
Posted on November 16, 2016
This week, Susan at Musin’ With Susan has come up with what I think is an inspired idea for her weekly Macro Moments challenge. Under the heading ‘Broaden Your Scope’ she invites us to use our Macro lens for anything other than macro.
It’s a great idea because I suspect that I’m not the only one who feels that they don’t get enough use out of their macro lens, or at the very least ought to resort to it more often. I read somewhere that a macro lens can be very effective for portraits. However, the resolution means that it can also be quite – shall we say unforgiving – for this purpose.
Perhaps it’s not too surprising to discover that even non-macro images can indeed be noticeably sharper when taken through a macro lens (specialised and innately more expensive than a standard kit lens, decent enough though they can be). When I tried it out this afternoon, the quality difference and superior sharpness was quite obvious: analogous to the difference between just brushing your teeth and brushing, then rinsing with Listerine.
Anyway, here is a very small selection of Madame’s collection of model elephants:
Nikon D800 with Nikkor 105mm f2.8 Macro lens. 1/125 (flash) at f19, ISO 4000 (!)
And just to prove that this really wasn’t a close-up, here’s the uncropped, unedited original image:
Category: Macro Tagged: elephants, Flash photography, Macro, Macro Lens, Macro Moments, Nikkor 105mm macro, ornaments