The Wondering Lenz of olc: animals

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Monday, September 10, 2018

Here are bunch of pictures

Hey all!

I was going through the hard drive trying to make room and rediscovered an old folder entitled Blog Posts! So here are some that have been sitting around for a bit.

I may have posted this one before, but I really like it. I think I used a polarizing filter for the first time. I got lucky.

I worked pretty hard to get this image. It is an acrylic frog and I wanted to get a glow under the bottom. How do you think I do you think l did?

I went to one of the early drum circles this year and saw this really cool study in color!

I have started a project photographing various old things I found around the house.

I think this is a female Eastern Bluebird. At any rate, I call this image "WHAT what???"

And then there are Humming birds

I have been trying to stop the wings from being blurry. They beat so fast. Well, even though the fasted shutter speed is 1/8000th of a second that is not fast enough. I did a little research and learned that if i used a flash unit, I could freeze those wings.

It turns out that a flash unit sends a set amount of light per flash. The difference is how long the light stays on. Well, my flash sends a beam of light at 1/32000 of a send. This is strong enough to over shadow the ambient light and mostly freeze those wings.

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Can't believe it is week 12

My wonderful sister had a vaca in someplace really exotic, Ireland. While she was there, she remembered my beautiful Runtyun and purchased this beautiful pendant. I think I know what could make it better, do you have any ideas?

More in the series of lighting and learning. This one was taken with only ambient light.

This one had the flash at a low setting and off to the left.

I really wish I had a longer lens than this 100-400 on a Canon 70D so I could get closer to these two. Truly, I was about 40 feet and 15 feet below them.

Again, I wish I had a longer lens. A female Cardinal.

More on the series of lighting. This one is, of course is ambient light. Truly, I spent more time on this one than the flashed image because I was trying to make everything disappear but the subject. No luck. Does anyone out there have any sugesstions?

This one is the silhouette. Again I am having problems with the dark side of this image.

I went to to Beaver Lake, my stand-by place, and found this squirrel napping in the middle of the morning. Truthfully, it was difficult to get any pictures due to a school project to clean up the park. The kids were doing a Community Clean Up project and they did a wonderful job, but they were having a loud and fun time, so it was a challenge to find a bird to photograph. As a photog, I have learned to find images in places that I may not have thought about.

A female Hairy Woodpecker in the backyard.

It is becoming a little more difficult to find time for this project. Honestly, the lack of feedback is a little discouraging. While I am doing this project for my learning, it takes a few minutes to post these pictures. I really want to know what you think about these photos and how they could be better, yet I am getting very few comments.

What can we do to make this blog more interesting?

olc

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Week #8 in the Photo-a-Day thing!!!

From the back yard.

I went out and bought this egg with a stand because I am woking on learning about light and how it effects the subject.

Then I got the Sphere. It turns out white balls are the best way to see how shadows change with the angle of the light source. Here is a series with the main light source at many different angles.

Light is at 11 o'clock.

Around 10 o'clock

Around 9 o'clock

The most obvious thing we see is the shadow on the table. What I was looking for however, was the way the light was reflected from the sphere. In all these cases the highlight is on the left and the dark side (Shadow)is toward the bottom and right. The way the light progresses across the top through the bottom was this part of the lesson.

There will be more!

At 8 o'clock.

And then it snowed the day before Spring started!

Mallard at Beaver Lake. It was the middle of the morning-not such a great time to take a photo- however, I like the way the light shifts from too harsh to pretty nice.