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Autumn Panorama
November 14, 2020 -
Seasonal change.
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Into the woods
September 06, 2020 -
It's difficult to capture the sense of immersion in the open southern woodland. It's almost a religious experience for m...
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More Butterflies, using extension tubes with a 600mm lens
August 29, 2020 -
Not the most exciting of pictures, but it's difficult to get up close and personal with bigger bugs. They sort of resent...
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Wasps and Flowers
July 04, 2020 -
Playing some more with the extension tubes in this summer of the virus. Even the wasps posed for a head shot. (These ar...
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Extension Tubes
June 05, 2020 -
Extension tubes fit between the lens and the camera body and allow for extreme closeups. They're not perfect, but are an...
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Ghost Leaves
March 01, 2020 -
This Spring's floods have finally receded, leaving debris behind. The lake lowered slowly so that leaves were left on th...
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Frisbee Dance
February 21, 2020 -
Finn loves his Frisbee. I like using rapid sequencing and using the Gimp. To put it on redbubble I'll remove the backgro...
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Getting Close
January 04, 2020 -
A follow on from my earlier post about the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. One of the things that makes for a striki...
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Space and Time
January 02, 2020 -
One of my friends who is a real artist, MFA and all, Art Vandenberg, showed me a work where he made a still life from si...
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Sony 200-600 telephoto lens - a review
December 25, 2019 -
You may have noticed that I like to take photographs of wildlife, even fairly tame creatures like this grey squirrel. Th...
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Trilobite
December 04, 2019 -
The Ordovician mudstone in northeastern Alabama is laced with marine fossils. Glaciers and sea have removed most of the...
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Tamron 28-75 F2.8 zoom lens
October 22, 2019 -
I haven't been happy with the kit lens on my Sony A7III. It's OK, but the sharpness needs to be improved. At high F-stop...
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Niagara Falls
September 09, 2019 -
I visited one of the most photographed places in the world. The challenge is then how to take a stunning and at least pa...
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Morning flight
September 06, 2019 -
This is one of those that belongs in Delta's glossy brochure. I exposed for the sun and sky and expected enough details...
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White Balance
August 18, 2019 -
One of the more frustrating things when you fly on "automatic" is color balance. Most of the time the camera does a good...
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Cassie
August 07, 2019 -
Our dog's cousin Cassie, asleep on her cushion. I made this image when trying to clean up an image I took. While...
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rapid shots
July 25, 2019 -
We took a walk to a series of waterfalls in Pontneddfechan (easier written than said). More on that later, other than it...
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Sam Yang 85mm f1.4, a review.
April 11, 2019 -
One of the few problems with the A7III is the cost of lenses. I can easily spend twice as much on a lens (albeit a very...
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Using the speedlight
January 30, 2019 -
I've been learning to use studio lighting at a course in the Atlanta Photographers Studio. So I've started to bother the...
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Aberrations
January 12, 2019 -
I've been taking a class in portrait photography and one of the questions that came up in discussion was the difference...
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A7III vs D7200
January 01, 2019 -
Not a lot of pictures in this post. I've been using a Sony A7III for the last month or so and 300 images in, I can write...
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Holiday Lights
December 23, 2018 -
One of the characteristic things in the good ol' USA around Christmas is the presence of Christmas light displays. It ca...
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Trying the Sony A7iii
December 07, 2018 -
My Nikon DSLR is not bad, but its low-light performance and speed of focus could be better. A lot better, to be honest....
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Getting a good image
November 30, 2018 -
My long suffering model stayed still long enough for me to make a couple of images that show how to get a dramatic pictu...
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Perspective.
November 25, 2018 -
Not the greatest, techncially (it's from an Iphone), but this shows how to manipulate perspcitve. The two dogs dominate...
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A Christmas Card?
November 17, 2018 -
I played with colour-specific masking in the cartoon. It brings out the Post box (In the UK the Royal Mail collects and...
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Cartooning
November 11, 2018 -
One of the effects I've been playing with is the cartoon filter in the Gimp. It draws black lines where the gradient in...
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color theory on the cheap.
November 03, 2018 -
I attended a prospective student meeting at SCAD last night. They gave us a quick example class in color theory. While i...
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All those settings.
October 26, 2018 -
One of the things I learned at the Master's class was that at least some photographers don't know what these settings ar...
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Street Photography
October 20, 2018 -
I just finished a master's class with Richard Renaldi as part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2018 program. I lear...
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Star Shots
October 14, 2018 -
Experimenting with star shots using my fish-eye lens. Actually, any lens that has reliable focus will do, but at F 3.5 t...
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Remediating Grain
October 04, 2018 -
I made this image a couple of months ago, at dawn, using a 600mm lens and a film speed of 3200. The apparent grain is la...
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Getting over the new puppy
September 25, 2018 -
One of our cats, at least, is finally getting over that uncouth young invader (our unplanned puppy). Which gave me a cha...
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Orb Weaver
September 23, 2018 -
The onset of Fall brings out the Orb Weavers. Argiope Aurantia, The golden garden spider or golden orb weaver is one tha...
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More experiments.
September 20, 2018 -
Experiments, experiments, experiments. Did I mention I was a scientist? This shows playing with the oil effects. I'm doi...
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how the puppy's doing
September 19, 2018 -
About 5 months old, healthy and (in this case) tired. Finn (and his brother's) fur reflects light. The blue cast is from...
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Artistic effects
August 23, 2018 -
The artistic filters in the GIMP are worth exploring. The oil effect doesn't work equally well for all images, and qu...
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Experiments with a Fish-eye lens
August 22, 2018 -
I've been experimenting with an inexpensive fish-eye lens. The super-wide angle and distortion are intriguing. This i...
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A new lens
July 27, 2018 -
I'm in the process of upgrading my photographic equipment. Zoom lenses don't quite cut it for professional work. They do...
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97% Totality.
August 21, 2017 -
The top of G-deck turned out to be a good decision. There were a few other people there, but nothing like the crowds in...
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Ready for the eclipse.
August 20, 2017 -
I ordered a solar filter for my long lense. It looks something like a very fragile and expensive piece of tinfoil, but w...
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