| Sat, 23 Jun 2007 | Comment on this article via email or flickr |
Succulent #2
The second of two of the succulent, but I still have no idea what the plant is called. This shows the foliage. Anyone know?
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Camera model : Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL Flash used : No Focal length : 50.0mm (35mm equivalent: 81mm) Exposure time: 0.013 s (1/80) Aperture : f/1.8 ISO equiv. : 100 Whitebalance : Auto Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : aperture priority (semi-auto) |
Post processing was a crop, curves adjustment, and a vignette.
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| Thu, 21 Jun 2007 | Comment on this article via email or flickr |
Succulent
I've no idea what this plant is called, so would welcome any suggestions. I plan to post another photo tomorrow of its foliage which might help identify it.
This is the first of I hope many photos taken with my news lens bought for my birthday. It's the Canon 50mm f/1.8 and I think it should be a pretty good match for the sorts of photographs I take. Given that my birthday was 6 weeks ago I was hoping to have something to show for it a bit sooner, but I bought the lens on ebay and the first one sent was broken, so had to be returned. This one has a slight blemish on one of the internal glass surfaces, but doesn't seem to affect the photos, so I decided to cut my losses and keep it.
Anyway, how could I resist a bit of close-up narrow depth of field photography now I've got f/1.8 at my disposal? I'm sure things will become more sensible now I've got that out of my system, but the background blurring with this new lens does have a lovely quality to it.
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Post processing was just a crop to 16:9 ratio and a curves adjustment to get a bit more pop.
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| Thu, 07 Jun 2007 | Comment on this article via email or flickr |
Mullein Moth Caterpillars
I let some Verbascum Olympicum grow in our garden partly because it's a reasonably nice plant and very low maintenance, but also because it attracts these fantastic caterpillars.
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The first has clearly been selectively colourised. I'm not a big fan of the selective colourisation - it's often used when not really appropriate - so I wasn't convinced this was the right approach here. However, the background was crying out for B&W as it was a really insipid green colour, with some noise due to ISO800, but the caterpillar in B&W would have lost most of its attraction. Any suggestions for a better alternative?
The second had almost no post-processing, just a very minor crop and slight curves adjustment.
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