25 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in Digital Photography, macro photography, nature, Uncategorized
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blur, blurry background, bokeh, flower, garden, nikon 35 - 105 mf reversed, nikon d800, reversed lens, reversed lens macro, wide aperture
With Nikon D800 and 35 – 105 manual focus lens reversed. It was shot at one of the intermediate focal lengths. It’s interesting to watch the ZOOMING change the focus.
Wide open aperture, f3.5, and 50 ISO used at 1/50 or so.
12 Wednesday Apr 2017
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close up flower photography, close up nature photography, close up photography, evening primrose, flower, hasselblad digital, macro, macro photography, nature, primrose, texas evening primrose, wildflower
This has a darker than necessary interpretation, at least according to the LR histogram. I hope it works out. My screen is set at max brightness on the iMac. Otherwise it goes black and is a pain to wake up again!
The camera was Hasselblad HD 5 with 200mm f4 lens and Canon close up lens attached, hand held. Aperture fairly wide, don’t recall exactly and don’t really care.
10 Monday Apr 2017
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daffodi, flower, garden, garden flowers, iphone, iphone camera, iPhone photography, macro, macro photography
These flowers have survived the rabbits. Taken hurriedly with an iPhone 7.
Apparently, bokeh IS possible with iPhone. Just have to focus closely.
06 Thursday Apr 2017
Posted by castl23 | Filed under Digital Photography, nature, Smart Phone, Uncategorized
31 Friday Mar 2017
Posted in Digital Photography, hasselblad digital, nature, Uncategorized
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buttercup, evening primrose, flower, hasselblad digital, macro, macro photography, nature, nature photography, primrose, texas evening primrose, wildflower
They are also called buttercups, I believe. These are in morning light, but also known as Texas evening primroses. I crawled around this morning with a heavy Hasselblad and 120mm macro lens. Two ladies walked by on the pathway and said they were concerned that something was wrong with me as a was shooting from below flower level to get the first shot you see here.
29 Wednesday Mar 2017
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blue, blue and green, bluebonnet, flower, hasselblad digital, macro, macro photography, nature, spring, spring flowers, texas, wildflower
The obligatory bluebonnets. Light was too harsh, really. I tried to rescue somehow with bokeh. (Why doesn’t any computer like the word bokeh? Here, bokeh, bokeh, bokeh! Take that!)
The camera was a Hassleblad (no misspelling, believe me, error messages galore!) The lens was the highly ventilated 120 f4 macro.
Do you know the legend of the bluebonnet?
Take care…a flower for you.
28 Tuesday Mar 2017
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flower, hasselblad digital, macro, macro photography, nature, spring, texas
Posted by castl23 | Filed under "photography", Digital Photography, hasselblad digital, nature, Uncategorized
19 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Digital Photography, hasselblad digital, nature, Uncategorized
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bloom, flower, hasselblad 120mm macro lens, hasselblad digital, hasselblad h5d, macro, macro photography, nature, spring, texas, texas nature, tree
This was with H5D and 120 macro shot two stops down from wide open at 200 ISO. There was a pestilent wind keeping things shook up, and as I was, in the late evening light, at 1/60 or slower, I had to watch the stamens carefully to see when a pause was in order to fire.
10 Wednesday Feb 2016
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"photography", cactus, claret cup, fleabane, flower, gaillardia, narrow depth of field, nature photography, selective focus photography, shallow depth of field, wildflower
I have come to really appreciate the technique of selective focus. In this older shot I’m not so sure I selected any focus point at all. I used an 85mm f1.4 wide open with maybe even a close up lens attached. I still like the effect here:
Gaillardia in Texas
Here, a little more of an actual selected focus point. I believe the lens was a 70 – 200 f4 with close up lens:
Claret Cups and Imago in New Mexico
Claret Cups in Burro Mountains, New Mexico
The flowers below were with the 85f1.4 at maximum aperture. All shots with Canon 5D Mark III camera.
Fleabane, Gila National Forest, New Mexico
Don’t underestimate the power of selective focus to simplify a complex array of objects in the photo and to provide a pleasing background for the focused element in your composition.
