Pretzel Salt. D7000. Vivitar 50mm f/1.8 (Cosina), reversed on ~100mm extension. About 12 seconds of processing in Lightroom (slight boost to contrast, saturation, clarity).
Author Archives: James Cockroft
7/52-09 reflections
It started when I noticed some leaves reflected in the window of the open door. Out came the LX7, which captured the scene nicely-enough, but I wanted to shoot the D7000 and some manual lenses, so back went the LX7, and out came the D7000 and Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5. The interaction between the eye/brain and …
Phoneography Friday #3
I had an idea to create a process post, with examples from every stage of a few minutes of app play, but then I ended up liking the original image far more than anything that came after… Maybe next week. Cortex Camera takes a dozen or so images and smashes them down into a single …
Midweek Macro #3
So. I left the macro shot for pretty much the last minute, and guess what? I’m not happy with it. I would go into my archives and pull one, but I’m in a really foul mood just now, so I won’t. I took this with the LX7, AP mode, f/1.4, 1/60th, ISO400, and gave it …
7/52-08 Macrobstractions
Well, I suppose I was a bit lazy this week, but I did want to shoot some Macro Abstractions again—it has been awhile, after all—and I am in the middle of building my own WordPress theme and doing some site optimization, so my shooting time was a bit limited. It was mostly laziness, though. At …
Phoneography Friday #2
From last Saturday’s MeetUp at White Rock Lake. I somehow went a whole week without shooting anything with the phone… Shame on me. I’ll try to keep my head in the game in the future. In other news, I finally figure out how to post from the phone! Go Me!
Midweek Macro #2
D7000. Nikkor 24mm f/2.8ai, reversed. ISO800, 1/40th (AP mode), f/2.8, -1EV, 30 seconds of slider play in Lightroom 4.
