Pixley Falls State Park
Little Cascade
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 3.2s, 17mm, f/16, ISO 200
Little Cascade
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Picnic Time
Delta Lake State Park
Picnic Time
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/80s, 25mm, f/16, ISO 200
Roger E. Broggie
Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World
Roger E. Broggie
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/100s, 70mm, f/5.6, ISO 100
Low Flow
Buttermilk Falls State Park
Low Flow
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 5s, 15mm, f/16, ISO 200
Floral Macro
In The Yard – ITY15
I slept in a little on the 4th. Originally I thought I would go looking for a sunrise but I spent the night before finishing a book which kept me up till almost midnight. It was a good book.
I didn’t mind missing my sunrise. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. It would have been a little boring looking… 🙂 Instead, I grabbed the macro lens and went exploring around the yard in the morning light. I found quite a lot to photograph.
Tangled
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro, 1/200s, f/2.8, ISO 200
Yearning
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro, 1/1000s, f/5.6, ISO 200
At the Heart of it…
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro, 1/5000s, f/2.8, ISO 200
At the Center
Monochrome Monday
Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World
At the Center
Nikon D7100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/100s, 17mm, f/5.6, ISO 800
Highlights
Delta Lake State Park
Yesterday was a short work day. My company offers summer hours which allows us to work four, nine hour days and then only have to work four hours on Friday. With this being a long weekend, and it was a very long week for me in which I had unintentionally worked nine-plus hours all week, I allowed myself to take advantage of the summer hours offer. It isn’t something I regularly participate in but I needed it this week.
Of course, I never did mention to Mother Nature that this was my plan so she decided to hit us with a little rain in the afternoon. It was OK with me though, I did some reading and I am not afraid to say I took a cat nap too! By the time dinner rolled around I was ready to go again.
We actually had a tornado watch in affect most of the evening up until 9:30pm. As far as I know a tornado never did make an appearance. With me being the adventurous kind (not really) I decided to catch the sunset but chose to stay close to home for my exploration. I drove to Delta Lake State Park as the clouds started to roll in. The earlier rain had basically cleared the beach area and I found I had the sunset to myself. I was running back and forth along the beach capturing images for over an hour. It was a good way to end my work week!
I found an interesting composition which included a small, water filled depression in the sand. I aligned myself with this small water pool and the setting sun which created a very nice line of highlights. By including the sun I had to be careful about lens flare and as you can see in the first image I wasn’t able to remove it all with camera orientation. I ended up using my ‘finger blocking the sun’ trick to get a second image without the flare and used Photoshop to combine the two images.
After processing the image I felt there was empty space on the left which was not adding anything to the composition. I regretted not turning the camera into a portrait orientation while I was at the beach. It is a practice I typically follow but in my enthusiasm over the empty beach I forgot. I decided I still liked this image but needed to change the orientation through a drastic crop in Photoshop. I basically threw away over a third of the pixels I had captured but the end result is the image I wanted to have.
Highlights – Start
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/8s, 12mm, f/16, ISO 200
Highlights
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/8s, 12mm, f/16, ISO 200
Depth
In The Yard – ITY14
The other evening while I was in the yard playing with my macro lens I decided to try out a cool feature. I have written about exposure bracketing before, which is a technique for increasing the dynamic range in an image, well my Olympus camera has focus bracketing as well.
After I set my exposure and my focus point the camera will adjust the depth of the focus above and below that point capturing an image at each slice. It will then combine all the images into a single image with a larger depth of focus than possible with a single exposure. You can read a better explanation of the technique here at Digital Photography School.
Depth
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro, 1/125s, f/5.6, ISO 200
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