While preparing to stage some of the shots for this past Tip Jar, I was rearranging things in Deep 13 and needed to prop something up for a few minutes, so I went out into the yard to get a brick. I’m smart enough (and have past experiences that remind me) to check such things first before bringing them indoors, and so turned it over to ensure there were no spiders or fun things clinging to
Category: Photography
Stomping Grounds: The behavior
Considering that I made this trip a week ago, I think I’ve stalled long enough on getting the pics up, but there are enough to split into two posts, so here’s the first. We’ll see how many weeks it takes me to get to the second…
Finding myself back in the area on errands, I arranged to meet up with the Inimitable Mr Bugg again and do a trip down to Jordan
Tip Jar 39: Studio macro
If you’re into macro photography, sooner or later you’ll run into a subject that will benefit from a little more control in the setting, angles, and lighting than you can accomplish ‘in the field,’ and you’ll want to do some studio work. The good news is, setting up a macro studio can often be done in minutes with simple materials. The bad news is,
Just around
Some of the photos in the backlog, all local, all from a period of… I was going to say, “Several days,” or list the actual dates, but it seems they’re all from the 28th and 29th. We’ll start with the very post-modernistic moth, or maybe it’s the concept model that will look nothing at all like the subsequent production version.
I’ve said
Could be better or worse, so…
I can talk the, um, mouth sounds, but can I stroll the amble? Well, kinda…
I did indeed get out early this morning in pursuit of Jupiter and the moon and all that, but I never had time to get the telescope up to speed, between two days of rain/overcast and being gone all day yesterday, too exhausted after that to start driving my frustration up with the ‘scope. So I simply went out at
Tip Jar 38: High-speed photography
So you wanna capture something fast, huh? It can be trickier than you think, so here are a few things to know and how to cope with them.
The very first thing is, the shutter curtains (the things that actually expose and re-conceal the sensor/film) are mechanical on most cameras and can only move so fast. It varies depending on the camera type and age, but for most modern DSLRs, they can uncover the
Resting beach face
Finally getting back to the beach pics – would have been nice to have them up within the last month to drive the numbers up a little, but I was lazy. And really, you’re going to see a little too much of the same thing here, because it wasn’t the most productive of days photographically and the conditions were fairly narrow, but still better than the featureless
Set that alarm
Coming up on October 6th at roughly 08:15 UTC (which translates to 4:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,) the crescent moon will occult Jupiter – for once, a nice target for an occultation, since it’s a planet and, at decent magnification, has both a shape and detail. Note that this is for North America and may not occur (or be hidden below the horizon) for many
September sidles out
Waiting until everyone’s attention was on the couple fighting over by the guacamole, September slips quietly out the door, but not before leaving a couple of abstracts on the gift table. Hey, why is it that on birthdays you open all the gifts in front of everyone, but for weddings you do it in the privacy of your own home? It’s completely ruined the fun of gag gifts…
Anyway, it’s
Tip Jar 37: Macro options
While macro photography can be fun and fascinating, it does require at least a little specialized equipment. Dedicated macro lenses tend to be quite expensive, and while they remain the best way to tackle the genre, there are other options. But first, let’s see why they’re usually the best option.
Full range of focus. Macro lenses can usually focus from 15cm, give or