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Photo of the Day December 2021
- Thread starter Hughmac
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Walk about shooting black and white
F/11 30.0mm 1/200s ISO-100 - dp2 Quattro
F/11 30.0mm 1/200s ISO-100 - dp2 Quattro
I really must get the inspiration to photograph birds and wildlife.
Your choosing the wrong birds. These are sky rats!
I had a nasty mental image of me cocking a shotgun when I saw that. Errr to scare them away.
The Glasgow doo shows no fear in it's search for food
ps. in Scotland a pigeon is called a doo
Small (approx 2 feet) tarpon in pure spring fed fresh water about 200 miles upstream from the ocean. Apparently not that unusual as they frequent the area enough to be included on a Park Service sign identifying the types of fish seen in the spring run.
Junco clinging to some wild grape vine that Darmok has been trying to get rid of for 3+ years. This is him saying “you missed a spot.”
One from the Fall ...
Eos 1 , 35/2 IS , f8 @ somewhere around 1/250 , TMax 100 , resized and 'massaged' a bit in Topaz Gigapixel , Dxo Photolab , and Affinity Photos
Eos 1 , 35/2 IS , f8 @ somewhere around 1/250 , TMax 100 , resized and 'massaged' a bit in Topaz Gigapixel , Dxo Photolab , and Affinity Photos
I like this because it's both pretty and puzzling. Unlike other pretty puzzles I work on most days (I write software, and both design and debugging can be pretty puzzling), this engages a different mental mode, more visual than my developer mode. It could even be in a thread entitled "What is This?", where decoding the puzzle is part of the process.
I think it's a green plastic slotted spoon/fork, placed on a stippled reflective surface of some kind, illuminated from above by a lamp that has multi-color fiber-optics around a central lamp, shot at an angle from the reflective surface. Or it's a UFO landing site.
Thank you, Chown! Actually you got pretty close with that first guess...... It is indeed a green plastic slotted fork, the kind sometimes used as salad servers, positioned over a shiny, sparkly, reflective multicolored poster board that I picked up one time at Michael's Crafts, and illuminated by an old gooseneck Photek photo lamp which has a daylight-type B 60-watt bulb in it. No fancy fibre-optics, no LED..... All the colors are coming from the poster board.
It was a kind of gloomy, cloudy day anyway, so I turned off the chandelier above the dining table, turned on the lamp just to see what would happen and was fascinated by the way everything reflected. Grabbed the camera and popped the 11mm fisheye lens on it, as it had been a while since I'd played with that, sat down, got really close to my subject and started shooting.....
I was getting tired of taking macro images of that lovely red Amaryllis, which is still going strong, and was in the mood for something different. I like experimenting like this, seeing what happens when I pull various things together.
It was a kind of gloomy, cloudy day anyway, so I turned off the chandelier above the dining table, turned on the lamp just to see what would happen and was fascinated by the way everything reflected. Grabbed the camera and popped the 11mm fisheye lens on it, as it had been a while since I'd played with that, sat down, got really close to my subject and started shooting.....
I was getting tired of taking macro images of that lovely red Amaryllis, which is still going strong, and was in the mood for something different. I like experimenting like this, seeing what happens when I pull various things together.
I won't lie, now I'm kinda disappointed it wasn't my second guess. Oh well, maybe next time.