A handful of the pics that have been accumulating over the past couple of weeks I decided to go with the creepy ones this time around.
First, if you recall when I tackled the jagged ambush bug some time back, I placed
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No living with me
For the last Tip Jar where I talked about making your own photographic accessories, I uploaded the design of the custom macro softbox to Thingiverse, a 3D design hosting site – I’d been meaning to do for a while but avoided it because, well, the softbox only works for one type of flash unit, long discontinued (though
Estate Find 66
Quite surprised to see this little spud hanging out on one of the rainbarrels this morning.
The temperatures have dropped significantly after the brutal heat of the summer, and we went to late fall quickly, especially overnight, meaning the treefrogs we’d been seeing for months vanished abruptly, and even the anoles only venture out in midday. I found this one just a little
Tip Jar 40: Do it yourself
Just about any photographer discovers, sooner or later, we simply don’t have some tool or device or accessory that would make our pursuits much easier. In far too many cases, this is equipment-related, as in, “I need a better camera/lens/flash unit/tripod/etc,” which may or may not be the case – in my experience, new purchases only solve the problem less
Stomping Grounds: The fartsy portraits
We’re back to the Jordan Lake session again, but this time we’re going for the high art angle, better than A through E art, and frame-worthy portraits to boot. Get out your checkbook! And do a websearch to find out what a ‘checkbook’ is…
It’s gonna be a little heron-heavy, since that’s what was most present that day, but hey – herons are majestic birds
Why it be like that?
Sunday evening, we could see the clouds lighting up with the approaching sunset, and hopped in the car to get down to the waterfront, since the sunset (or sunrise) views at Walkabout Estates are lacking – too many trees nearby. On the way, we could see the sun already hidden behind a bank of clouds but edging those with brilliant gold and a few crepuscular rays, but this view
Not for this
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
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.
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