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Macro Moments Week 17: Berries
Posted on November 2, 2016
Early morning raindrops add interest to this bunch of bright red berries.
D800 with 24-70mm f2.8 lens at 70mm. 1/90 at f4, ISO 140. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments: Week 16
Posted on October 26, 2016
Earlier this year, a grasshopper strayed through our open door and before we released it back into the wild I took the opportunity to reel off a few pictures as it explored its temporary accomodation in an upturned glass.
Macro Moments: Week 16
Macro Moments Week 15: Thistle
Posted on October 19, 2016
‘Fall’ (which is to say ‘autumn’) is the theme for Musin’ with Susan’s Macro Moments Challenge this week.
It’s certainly getting to that time of year when the seedheads have done their work, as on this thistle in our garden (where it obviously has no right to be…)
Macro Moments – Week 14: Raindrops on Roses
Posted on October 12, 2016
This week, for Musin’ with Susan’s maco challenge, here are some raindrops on roses. Don’t expect whiskers on kittens any time soon.
Nikon D300 with Nikkor 105mm f2.8.Macro lens. 10 sec at f4.5 ISO 200. Edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments: Week 13
Posted on October 5, 2016
This week, Sue at Musin’ With Susan wants us to ‘get real close’. Well here is a real macro shot of the top of the stamen of a lily, I think it’s the closest close-up I have in my collection.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm f2.8 Macro lens. 1/5 at f22
Macro Moments: Week 12
Posted on September 28, 2016
Last Sunday, we visited the house of George Sand, the prominent 19th century French author(ess). The house itself was very grand (she was a very succesful writer) and the gardens, while past their best, nonetheless still had some interesting flowers in the beds, including this. I have no idea what it is, but it’s very pretty:
Nikon D800 with 24-70mm f2.8 lens at 70mm. 1/90 at f2.8. ISO 100. Cropped and edited in Lightroom. I desaturated the green channel to minimise background distraction.
Macro Moments: Week 10
Posted on August 24, 2016
For this week’s open macro challenge, I’ve chosen a photograph I took last Monday evening at a spéctacle of birds of prey, which took place in the ruins of the medieval castle at Saint-Germain-de-Confolens, a very pretty village about twenty minutes drive from here.. The very strong sunlight helped to produce strong contrast and some interesting backlit effects, as in the case of this owl.
NikonD800 with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens at 200mm. 1/500sec. ISO100. Cropped and edited in Lightroom. Image resized in Photoshop
Macro Moments: Week 10
Macro Moments: Week 9
Posted on August 18, 2016
This week, Sue at Musin’ with Susan, as her latest Macro Moments Challenge, asked for an image of an inanimate object. Here are the heads of three safety matches. This was taken as part of an assignment on a weekend Macro photography course I took just after I became the proud owner of my Macro lens.
As you can probably tell by looking at the metadata below the image, I was still struggling to get to grips with it. Plus ça change.
NikonD300. Nikkor 105mm f2.8 Macro lens. 2 secs at f36; ISO200. Edited in Lightroom
And yes, I did use a tripod.
Macro Moments: Week 8
Posted on August 10, 2016
Before I traded up to my D800, my first ‘proper’ DSLR was a Nikon D300, which I bought while living in Abu Dhabi. This was the second ever photograph I took with it.
NikonD300 with Nikon 18-55mm kit lens at 40mm. 1/80 at f5.3, ISO200. Edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments: Week 7
Posted on August 3, 2016
Another open topic this week for the macro challenge hosted by Musin’ with Susan. This is my third contribution and so far I’ve posted a flower and a dragonfly, so perhaps it’s time for something inanimate.
This is the very end of an extremely long soap bubble that my grandson blew last year.
It reminds me of a very early Pink Floyd lightshow (note to younger viewers: trust me on this one – you had to be there).
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