365.59 Abstraktes Bild

Sorry to keep dumping mere abstractions out, and for not bothering to come up with fun and witty titles…

I keep most of my lenses on the desk between the keyboard and monitor. Most of them get reasonably regular use. I’ve used all of them in the 365 at least twice, except for one lonely little darling…

The Holga 60mm f/8.

I keep waiting for just the right moment to take the lady out, but so far nothing has struck my fancy much…

So I decided to pull her out and play around a bit with close-focusing (by unscrewing the lens from the mount and holding it some distance away), and then—with a stroke of genius—by adding 49mm worth of extension tubes!

This was shot in Aperture priority. The D7000 chose a 4 second exposure at ISO 100 and f/8. The exif will report 58mm (the closest it has to 60), mostly because I couldn’t be bothered to go in and modify the settings.

And kudos to anyone who can identify the subject… (Hint: I’ve shot it—and shot with it—before, and will again).

365.58: the Outtakes

Outtakes from yesterday’s 365 shoot…

Many are multiple-exposures, some are accidents, and most show strong evidence of the 75-150mm E Series and its notorious zoom creep. I’m not sure what I expected from having the camera in such a strange orientation, but the 75-150 will be forever (if lovingly) known as ‘The Creeper.’

I fired off about 80 shots, trying to hold the zoom ring in place, but not shake it in any way (fail) before I realized that I could just move everything around and shoot horizontally. :facepalm:

Check out my early brilliance:

365.58: the Outtakes
Anyway.

I used a couple of LED light saber lamp things to focus at higher apertures, and for the majority of the light in one or two of the shots.

All in all, this was good times. I hope to have similar amounts of fun during today’s shooting session.

All of these were shot yesterday, and are not part of today’s 365 project (which will be #59). Nikon D7000, 75-150mm f/3.5 E Series, ISO100. Many were shot with the lens on 49mm of extension tubes and/or reversed. Most had some involvement from the SB700. One was shot with the iPhone 4. One had a 30 second exposure (chosen by the camera, as I was doing a test shot in Aperture Priority-don’t ask me why). And I think many are sortof interesting.

Enjoy.

365.58 Abstraktes Bild

Well, I could write a novel about today’s shoot, or I could just post the shot and its general setup notes…

There are about 15 interesting shots from today, some purposeful (like this one), some entirely accidental, and I started with a rather insane setup, so I may make an outtakes post later tonight or tomorrow (probably the latter…). If I go into more detail, I’ll just go on and on and on, so:

D7000, Nikon 75-150mm E Series, reversed, on 49mm of extension tubes, ISO100, two exposures, both 1/250th, both at f/3.5, with the SB700 at 1/2 power, with it’s diffusion panel down, hard camera left (maybe 80 degrees off axis (or is that 270?)).

Oh, and btw, this is straight out of the camera (with whatever RAW – jpeg conversion trickery Aperture performed, and with a conversion from Adobe RBG to sRGB). Good times.

365.57 Ohne Titel (and a friend…)

I made 150-odd photos today, trying (in vain) to capture a macro version of yesterday’s optical illusion with the crayons.

I got some interesting-enough shots, so groovy.

All were shot with the D7000, Nikon 75-150mm E Series, Reversed, on 49mm of extension tubes, and at ISO100.

The runner up (see below) was taken from about a foot away, 1/10th, f/3.5 with the SB700 at 1/2 power near camera right.

The 365 was more complex in that it was a multifun shot in addition to being macro. The end of the lens was about 3 feet away. Shots 1 and 2 were at f/11 and 1/10th, with the SB700 at 1/4 power at camera left. Shot 3 was at f/3.5 without the flash.

This was perhaps the most fun I’ve had with a 365 shoot: no cussing or grumbling or checking the clock and the shot count. And I’m reasonably pleased with the results. All in all, pretty much win, methinks.

365.57 Ohne Titel (and a friend…)

365.56 Optical Illusion

The idea for this came quickly, but took many tries to execute (poorly). It looks better as a thumbnail, fyi.

D7000, 75-150mm f/3.5 E Series at 150mm (225mm equivalent), ISO100, 1/10th, f/16, SB700 at 1/4 power, zoomed out to 28mm set to it’s wide beam setting, about 3 feet from the subject maybe 10 inches to the left (about 2 feet from camera-left).

I tried a bunch of multiple exposure trickery, and I’ll be trying that again tomorrow, but maybe with the lens reversed, get my macro-multiple-exposure-strobism on…

365.55 Wino (3rd Attempt): Take it Easy…

I’ve been sober for almost 2 years.

But some days, I really feel like tying one on…

Maybe tomorrow. For now, though, it’s clean up the mess I made making this mediocre (at best) picture, then it’ll be dinnertime (it’s already way past…), and then time to relax so I can have a good night’s sleep and start all over again tomorrow. Hooray.

D7000, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, ISO100, 1/100th, f/1.4. SB700, at full power and zoomed to 70mm, on its wide angle setting and firing through CerealBoxStripBox(tm) on a tripod outside the window at camera left (fyi, probably the most complex I’ve gotten with the whole strobing thing…).

Well, I probably won’t shoot this again, and I probably won’t submit one to Alex Koloskov and Dave Nitsche’s Studio Photography Insights Hangout, as I’m in no way satisfied with any of the three attempts I’ve made thus far. Oh well: I’ve learned some things, I think, and that’s what counts!

365.54 Wino (Second Attempt): One Too Many

Once again, not happy, but oh well. I’m not happy with much of anything today: nothing in the way of sleep last night… Oh well.

I did mess around with this a bit: cloning, cropping, etc.

D7000, 50mm 1.8, ISO100, 1/80th, F/1.8, snooted SB700 high camera right, aimed at the label, at ~1/64th power, iirc.