Continue reading “Too Close, part 2: Hair Studies (2, contd…)”
Too Close, part 1: Hair Studies (2)
The mamiya/sekor 50mm is a wonderful lens, and it’s great for just about any macro situation, what with its excellent sharpness, luscious bokeh, and general ease of use. But I wanted to try something different for a bit…
Enter the Nikkor 24mm f/2.8, a wonderful lens in its own right, quite a nice angle of view (36mm on the crop sensor), and a great length for a walk-around lens. But how would it do for a walk-around macro lens?
The title of this series says it all…
First up: Hair. I got a few hairs in focus, and the softness is there, but there is a bit of harshness to the bokeh that is far removed from the mamiya/sekor (see this post).
It’s fine for this (and wait till you see Wednesday’s shot…), but still a bit of a bother.
That’s not to say that I’m disappointed with these: I quite like the subtlety of a couple of them, but it was way harder to get from the original RAW file to something worth sharing than it usually is with the mamiya/sekor (or the Zomb-E, or the Vivitar 70-210).
D7000. Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 ai, reversed. ISO400, 1/250th, f/2.8, pop-up flash, popped up at 1/80th, loads of post work (probably 6 or 7 minutes per shot).
Blast from the Past, part 3
Continuing on with the Blast from the Past series…
I found an outtake from the series from which I shared a PictureShow-edited shot back in July, 2011 and ran it through Lightroom 5.
Which one do you like better, and why?
iPhone 4. Shot in July 2011, edited in Lightroom 5, March 2014.
InshaAllah I’ll make more time to shoot this coming week: it’s much easier to edit/share current work than to find shots worth editing from the archives.
Blast from the Past, part 2
(This is the second of two images culled from the archives due to lack of shooting discipline. tsk tsk.)
D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 E-Series (back before it became the Zomb-E Series). Originally shot March 10, 2012; processed in Lightroom 5, March 23, 2014. Continue reading “Blast from the Past, part 2”
Blast from the Past, part 1
I ran short on shooting time this week due to a schedule change at work and duties around the new house (and general laziness), and so went back into the Aperture library to see what I could see…
In a project titled 75-150 Reversed – Random,” I found two pics—this one, and another that will appear on Wednesday, neither of them shared before—that struck my fancy, exported the originals, and processed them in Lightroom 5. Fun times.
D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 E-Series (back before it became the Zomb-E Series). Originally shot March 10, 2012; processed in Lightroom 5, March 23, 2014.
DeChirico & Klee
I grabbed these two pictures from a video:
Something about the color, or arrangement of lines, or something in the background at those moments when Imam Wahaj walked out of the frame reminded me of Paul Klee, and then of Georgio de Chirico. Do you see it too?
I then ran them through a bit of processing in Filterstorm, the built-in photo editing tools in iOS7, and Lightroom, and voila:
Jagger’s Snarl (there will always be a space in my parking lot)
D7000. mamiya/sekor 50mm f/2. ISO100, 1/250th, f/4, -2EV (not sure if that matters or not…), pop-up flash in manual mode at 1/80th.
