First, I must apologize. I made no attempt to make a good picture for the 365 today, nor did I attempt to learn anything new about making pictures. Second, I must apologize again, because this post will be rather lengthy. Given that few of you read my posts anyway, the uninspiring picture is unlikely to …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
365.258 bloom
Bloom? Yes. 1) To me, this looks like a divot in a piece of bulletproof glass, or that glass with the wire all through, and ‘bloom’ is a (informal) synonym for blemish, which is a synonym of divot and pock, which this also sorta looks like to me. 2) This also has some semblance of …
365.257 Grand Opening
Well, I had an idea to write up a long thing about finding some stills from a newsreel in some boxes and discovering some footage of the grand opening celebrations for the Chrysler building or something, but I decided that would be sorta lame. So I’ll be straight with you instead. This is a guitar …
365.256 (wish I could) turn this sometimes
After coming across several beautiful pictures by Gheorghe Chesler—shot with various Nikons and featuring his Sigma 150mm f/2.8 Macro—over on Google Plus yesterday evening, I found myself lusting after a proper macro lens… But I reminded myself: no new gear until I finish the 365. So I looked over the gear I do have, and pulled …
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365.255 there ain’t no flare like some iPhone flare
The title pretty much says it all. After pretty much surfing the interwebs all day, I shot this in Momma’s backyard while waiting to take her for a cheap dinner. I wanted to play with the tiny focal length and try to get some weird blurring, but ended up being focused on (and exposing for) …
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365.254 Abstraktes Bild
Well, I spent 2.5 hours playing with the zoomy flashy thingy, but didn’t get anything worth sharing, and didn’t find anything new, so I whipped out the old standby: the Abstract Picture. Woo. D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Zomb-E Series. ISO100, 1 second (APmode), f/3.5. About 2 minutes of slider play in Aperture to bring out …
365.253 keep playing
So today I tried to combine the zoomy-flashy thing with multiple exposures… It didn’t work. Or, rather, it only worked once as far as I can tell. The process is something like playing a very complex, mallet-based instrument, or performing as a percussionist with several shakers/rattley things/tinkley bells/etc. to shake, rattle, or tinkle all in …
