The lens I got recently, Sigma's 105mm f2.8, is a medium telephoto combined with a 1:1 macro. This means that it gets at-scale magnification when doing very close up photography ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, I went back to Crosby Beach, with the intention of trying some off-camera flash on the Iron Men.


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In the past, the term "post monkey" was used for someone producing many LJ posts in a short period of time. I'm calling this post that, because of adventures in post processing.

The image of the wine earlier, that I wasn't too pleased with? This is what I managed to do by tweaking levels of light, saturation, shadow, etc.:


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This evening in the Intro to Photography Class, we spent an amount of time dropping things into water. It was huge fun, if a little messy.

All these were ISO200, 1/200 shutter speed at F8, with a 50mm lens:


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Polarising filters came in the post today, so I trotted out in the sunshine:


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Recent photos:


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Another day, another trip out to Yorkshire. Happily, this time, the waterfalls I was looking to photograph were not mobbed out by all and sundry. Seems that people are less interested when it's raining...


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I spent a bit of time in the garden this afternoon with the 50mm lens:


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