This morning found me in the Fort Worth Stockyards, taking part in a photowalk and scavenger hunt MeetUp with the North Texas Photography Explorers Meetup Group. The weather was beautiful, and I ended up being more interested in the walking than the shooting, though I did manage to take 320 pictures… Here is the Scavenger …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
The street photographer’s guide to shooting domestic poultry
I don’t often post links to other people’s work… perhaps I should. This article suggests that I should, but I wonder if it isn’t geared toward the pro-am, wannabe, semi-pro, and pro photographers out there. In any case, I don’t often post links to other people’s work, but when I do, you should clicky immediately. …
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365.296 almost
Focusing a reversed 50mm by rocking back and forth is especially tough when your subject darts around like a mosquito. Don’t look too closely at this one… The [whateverthisis] portion of this picture was tortured beyond all reasonable requirements to make it appear, at first glance, to be in focus. Trust me, it’s not, and …
365.295 closer
Focusing a reversed 50mm by rocking back and forth benefits greatly from stopping down even if it’s a mere 1 and 1/3 stops. The head, eye, and front segment are all about as sharp as this lens gets (I think… it might sharpen up a bit at f/5.6 and f/8, but I haven’t really tested …
365.294 the elusive eludes
Focusing a reversed 50mm by rocking back and forth is difficult. Good exercise, but difficult. And it eluded me today, but I got closer than yesterday, so that counts for something. At two separate points, I was busily shooting bees, stopped, looked up, found a couple pushing a baby stroller stopped inches from me, and …
365.293 just pretty, that’s all
It is really hard to use a reversed 50mm on 50mm worth of extensions as a walkaround lens when the wind is gusting. I think I’ll try just the 50 tomorrow, sans extension tubes, and see if I can get the bee and bug shots I missed today. And I’m finding that music helps me …
365.292 Abstraktes Bild
This is the broken mirror featured in the 365 back on days 165-171 inclusive. I didn’t even know the theme for Macro Monday over on G+ was ‘Broken’ today… Cosmic, I suppose. And speaking of cosmic, I think this looks like a panel from a graphic novel, maybe, or some science fiction manga maybe. Other …
