Dallas Blooms photowalk

The Dallas Blooms photowalk went down today, organized by Greg D of the DFW Photography Club of Texas MeetUp group, and held at the Dallas Arboretum. I took the D7000 and 75-150mm E Series (mounted in reverse…), as well as the Ricoh 35 ZF. I finished a roll of Fuji Pro 400H and started a roll …

Super Macro Brothers: the Weigh-In

I’ve been reading up on Macro photography quite a bit lately. Well, that’s not quite true… I’ve been thinking of buying a proper macro lens for several days—the Tokina 100mm f/2.8, specifically—and reading review after review and spec sheet after spec sheet, and in the process I decided to see how the macro rig (the …

365.78 Reversed Walkaround

Got home a bit early today, and so I took the reversed 75-150 for a walk around the apartments. This is the best shot I got, though I was shooting more to test the performance characteristics of a reversed 75-150mm E Series in the wild than to make a competent photo. I tried to take …

365.77 Pool of Dreams

Question: Why is there a tilt-shift type effect going on here? I’m probably going to take the 75-150mm E Series to the Arboretum for a meetup on Saturday, and I’m probably going to take it reversed, with ~30mm of extension tubes on the end as a sort of lens hood. An interesting thing about reversing …

365.74 Ohne Titel (but it needs a good one)

And another one that I want to see printed BIG. Oh what fun things you can make with a couple of flashlights and some coffee stirrer things that will one day become a gridspot for the SB700 (maybe later today, but probably not). D7000, 75-150mm f/3.5 E Series, Reversed. ISO100, 1″, f/16.

365.73 Some Strange Lights/Makes Me Dizzy

Well I was all set to do another Super Macro Bros. shoot (and did, in fact, shoot about 300 pictures with one or another or both of the brothers, and all of their siblings), and had designs on some more HDR for no good reason, but there was just one problem… Somehow, in changing lenses …