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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM__1/2 sec at f / 6.7__ISO 100
I continue to edit my Cally Lily images. I made a few new Impressions of Light images. Here is one of them. Would love to hear your comments!
Cheers, Bill
I haven’t had time to fully edit my Yosemite images from last weekend. Soon, I hope!
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__TS-E90mm f/2.8__f / 32__ISO 100
Here is another image in my new Cally Lily series, this one from the third day of this setup. As with the previous image, this photograph was made with Photomatix, this time with seven exposures. The morning sun is coming through my window from the upper left hand corner. I first saw this lighting effect on the previous morning, unplanned and unexpected, but I was so revved up I blew the composition. So I noted the time in the EXIF data and returned to try again the next morning. I didn’t move the large blossom, but needed to create better spacing between it and the small flower.
John and I have been using Adobe Photoshop CS5 for about one week, including HDR Pro. I think it has great potential but we haven’t fully explored it yet. More on that later…
I look forward to your comments. Let me know which one you prefer!
Cheers,
Bill
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__TS-E90mm f/2.8__f / 32__ISO 100
Earlier this week, I received three calla lilies to photograph. For three days, I left them in a corner of my dining room where I have found magic light in the past (see blog post from October 2009). I hung my every-ready black velvet on a chair behind the blossoms. On the second day, the early morning sun glanced across this one flow. Aiming downward, I needed f/32 and a little lens tilt to hold sharpness in the vase and flower.
Due to the wide contrast, I bracketed seven exposures that were one stop apart. This image was made with six of those frames using Photomatix by my assistant John. The exposure blend enabled us to show fine separation of tones in the white, nice shading in the green stems but left the background black.
I made about 700 exposures in various light, including some blurs and many 7-frame brackets, so I still have much editing to do.
Until I can polish up some more selects, I hope you enjoy this one. Let me know your thoughts!
Cheers, Bill
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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro__10.0 sec at f / 27__ISO 100
This last weekend, I was mowing my grass (electric mower, not gas!). I noticed a mushroom and picked it. Then I plucked out the stem so I could photograph the radiating pattern. I tried various framing options including full mushroom and black background, partial mushroom in the frame, and filling the frame with the pattern with no black background. As I photographed, it occurred to me that the composition would work well in B&W. It also occurred to me that I might print this very large someday, and that I wanted a square format. So made two frames, one with top half filling my frame, and one with the bottom half, then used photomerge in PS4 to create a higher res, square framed image. The lighting is from my office window. The file size with adjustment layers is 334 MB. Here it is! Let me know your thoughts.
Cheers, Bill
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__TS-E90mmf/2.8+2x Extender__1.5 sec at f / 2.8__ISO 100
Yesterday afternoon, and early this morning, I took about 550 frames of my purple plum trees which are in bloom. I know about quality over quantity, but this is what happens when I get excited making Impressions of Light images!
I have barely started editing, but found this one to share. Below you can see the setup I used for both the ice image, and this blur! Ironic somehow… For the blossom images, I added the Singh Ray Vari-ND filter, which I’ve used often for my Impressions images. It allowed me to use the widest aperture for shallow depth of field, but still use a slow shutter speed.
In the next few days, I will edit and upload more new images to share. For more Impressions of Light images, see my ebook:
Taken with my iPhone
