It’s been a little while since I featured a flower photo. This is one of the little wildflowers I found on our hike up to the top of Multnomah Falls. I think pretty much everything macro looks better when covered in dew, don’t you?
Posts Tagged ‘macro’
Daily Photo: Racing Snail
This is one of the coolest looking snails I have ever seen in person. Lighting here was with assistance from Tina Connolly and snail wrangling by Sarah Tolbert. The photos of this little guy were a group effort. It was a lot of fun. I should always bring a couple of assistants with me on my photo shoots.
Bonus Photo: Dewed Ballerina
As promised– your flower palette cleanser. These were not much bigger than a dime. I had to break out the true macro to get good shots of them. Sarah was hand-holding my umbrella reflector overhead and I would aim the flash on camera up at it. We got some very nice light that way.
Bonus Photo: Snail Portrait
There will be a flower photo cleanser after this one for those of you who find molluscs inherently disturbing.
Sarah and I just found this guy to be super cute! Wait until you see the size of the SLUGS!
Photo of the Day: Heap of Shrooms
I’m traveling today, which is why you’re getting this image a bit early. We’re bound for Oregon, lands of the beautiful fungi. I’m hoping to find some really spectacular specimens there to photograph. I’ve got my full kit packed for the trip, including my strobist gear. A few friends have expressed interest in sitting for a portrait while there, so I’m excited about that.
It’s going to be nice to take my mind off the job search and freelance hunt for a while. I want to decompress, reexamine my priorities. Brainstorm on some writing projects. I want to give Portland a long, hard look in determining whether I really do want to find a way to live there.
That’s my goal anyway. We’ll see how it turns out.
Daily Photo: Here Comes the Sun
I saw a bunch of these on my photo walk yesterday, but I didn’t take pictures of them. I had a few already in the files. This is called a “Yellow Salsify” (scientific name Tragopogon dubius major). Tragopogon means “goat’s beard” which refers to the seed heads. A member of the Aster family. Very pretty, and one of the first spring flowers that I see around Colorado each year.
Daily Photo: Tree mycoid
Exploding shrooms! These aren’t nearly as visually interesting as the photo I posted yesterday, but it’s like I said. Last weekend was a near total bust on the photography front.
I’m thinking of driving up to Rocky Mountain National Park early Saturday morning. If I can convince Sarah to get up with me anyway. She can sleep on the drive, which is about an hour. There’s a lot of big wildlife up there, and I think that would be fun to get some shots of with the new lens.
More likely though, I’ll stay home all weekend packing.
Daily Photo: Stacked mushrooms
It’s a return of the old favorite! Mycoids! I’m thinking about giving this one the old fashioned Roundbottom treatment. Sneak some eyeballs in there in the folds, maybe. Give it some stalked eyeballs and a mouth and make it some kind of mimic. Lots of possibilities. I really do have a slightly unhealthy fascination with turning mushrooms into creepy “other” things. When you think about it, with them being neither animal nor plant, but something in between, they’re already somewhat creepy. This is the first macro shot I’ve really posted that I didn’t take with my 35mm macro lens, but instead was taken with the macro mode on the 70-300mm lens. I’m pretty pleased with it’s quality, but I think I’m going to need to get a really small tripod for the insect work.
Bonus Photo: I see you
The new lens works as a very good macro lens as well. This little guy scared the crap out of me by making a racket in the leaves next to me. I hopped up, and once I realized what he was, and verified for myself that it wasn’t poisonous (just a garter snake), I settled in to take some shots. I had a good 3 foot margin between me and the snake to take this shot, which is about where I like to be, if not further. It’s going to be really fun to shoot some insects with this lens once they start coming out.
