Archive for the ‘Nature’s Design’ Category
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__TS-E90mm f/2.8__1/30 sec at f / 22__ISO 200
Practice, practice…
I’ve been very frustrated lately because I haven’t been able to get out of the office and up to Yosemite for waterfalls, reflections in the meadow, corn lilies in the high country. Fortunately, my water lilies are in bloom and I check them out every day. We had an amazing rain storm Tuesday night and the next morning, and so I took a lunch break on my patio. My water lilies had been washed clean and were gleaming with water drops. I used my trusty 90mm Tilt Shift lens, making two frames to merge into this square composition using Photo Merge in Photoshop CS5. The storm was starting to clear, with the sun on the edge of a cloud which gives this image a fresh and sparkling mood.
So when I finally get up to Yosemite Valley next week, I’ll have had recent practice. Practice seeing every day, get your camera out whenever and wherever you get inspired, and be ready for the next opportunity. Oh yes, and it might just happen in your back yard!
Enjoy, Bill
William Neill’s Yosemite Volume One
Tags: canon eos 1ds mark III, lily, Macro Photograph, Nature, nature patterns, photograph, photography, photoshop, tilt shift, William Neill, williamneill.com
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM__1/15 sec at f / 16__ISO 400
Last week, I was in the Toronto area with my family for a wedding. I brought along my camera and a few lenses in case I found inspiration. Staying at our family’s home, I took a short walk about their property on a drizzly day. I am not sure if these plants are hosta, or maybe veratrum, but I know I loved the patterns. Does anyone know the common and/or latin name?
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Bill
Tags: canon eos 1ds mark III, Macro Photograph, nature patterns, William Neill, williamneill.com
Posted in Featured Print, Inspiration, Macro Photography, Nature, Nature's Design, Patterns of Nature, photography | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM__3.0 sec at f / 32__ISO 400
Here is my favorite image from Saturday May 7th in Yosemite. The dogwood were beautiful, and I had a blast! More to come! I posted this image on FB earlier but loaded the wrong jpg.
Enjoy, and please give me your feedback! Bill
Tags: canon eos 1ds mark III, flower, Landscape Photography, Macro Photograph, national park, Nature, nature patterns, photography, Sierra Nevada Mountains, William Neill, williamneill.com, yosemite, yosemite valley
Posted in Landscape Photography, Nature, Nature's Design, Patterns of Nature, photography, Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park | 9 Comments »
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM__1/3 sec at f / 19__ISO 200
I have lived in the Sierra for 33 years, and I have always been thrilled when seeing the first buckeyes popping out in early spring. The leaves come out so fast that I have never caught that moment I have enjoyed for so many years. The bare branches of these small trees often have wonderful patterns that I have photographed during the winter months. See one such image on mine on the OP site: The Digital Deluge.
I have been wanting to capture that sense of early spring that I have seen and felt every spring for so long. The timing for this image was critical – early enough in the budding process to still see the branch patterns and also see the full, radiating shapes of the leaves. On Tuesday morning, on my Morning Light run, I think I captured the moment.
Enjoy! Bill
Tags: canon eos 1ds mark III, forest, Landscape Photography, leaves, Macro Photograph, Sierra Nevada Mountains, spring, tree trunks, trees, William Neill, williamneill.com
Posted in Landscape Photography, Nature, Nature's Design, Patterns of Nature, photography, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains | 7 Comments »
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM__1.5 sec at f / 22__ISO 100
For the past couple of months, I have been watching this calla plant growing in my living/dining room area. The light comes through two different windows to light the leaves to various effect. This past Sunday, I finally saw a composition worth setting up for. I hung up my black piece of velvet on the wall behind these leaves. I left my camera set up and made frames when I saw interesting light. I downloaded the images, looked at the new images, and was not particularly inspired by the results.
Yesterday, four days later, I looked at the images again with Lightroom. Then it hit me that there was real potential here, made several adjustments to this image, including converting the image to BW. Bingo! I polished up the file this morning in Photoshop this morning. Here is the result!
Enjoy, Bill
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Tags: black and white, canon eos 1ds mark III, leaves, lightroom, lily, Macro Photograph, Nature, nature patterns, photograph, photography, williamneill.com
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