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First, let me apologize for not getting back to this discussion I started promptly. At first I was hoping for more responses first, and then I totally forgot. I’m sorry.
I agree that this particular lens flare is not highlighted or bright enough to really count. I think the main reason I posted it was because it was a rainbow lens flare and I had never seen one do that before. But it is distracting and I think it takes away from the photo.
As for water drops, I actually prefer the water drop flower photos. The water droplets do not distract me. Instead, they make the flowers more interesting and the photo more exciting, brighter somehow. I’ve found that when I photograph without the water droplets first, and then again with the water, I always like the ones with water better. The ones without seem boring once I’ve seen them with water. But I do believe that is more personal preference. I did like the water and petals with back lighting. BTW, this is a small sunflower from an autumn bouquet.
Thanks for the comments. Again, I am sorry for not responding sooner.
Cynthia
Being someone who likes antiques and collectibles, I like this shot. The only thing I have to say about it is that I find the fish hooks and other items hanging from the shelf distracting in that I want to see what they are. I think I would either crop those out or include those items somehow in the whole picture. Obviously I don’t know what is below that shelf that could further distract should you include them in the picture. But their being there pulls me down into that area of the photo and I just have that nagging curiosity of what is hanging there.
Cynthia
Here is another one with rainbow lens flair and also a line of bokeh. I am not sure what made the bokeh.
Seems like a lot of extra work that we didn’t have to do before. What happened to cause it? I guess it doesn’t matter. It is what it is.
How do you delete it before posting the image since you need the code to post it? It doesn’t show up like this until after the image is posted. I guess I could go back and edit the post, but I’ve also noticed others have this problem as well. Odd thing is that when I posted in the past it didn’t do this.
Hi xiagede,
I just saw this post and while many see it as boring or not enough story, I see it differently. I see this man who has this task to walk who knows where, but with his size in contrast to the size of the green field, how far does he have to go to reach his goal? I see determination and perseverance. But also I see his age and slightly hunched back giving the impression of years having passed. Could he have walked far already with still so far to go?
Minimalism has to strike me somehow for me to like it, and I like this. The distance between the man and the camera only adds to the total mystery of how far has he walked and how far does he still have to go? The field appears to be well tended grass which also makes me wonder about the location. I can’t think of a lot of places with lawns that large without at least a bush or tree or something else planted there, so it adds to the mystique of the photo for me. Sorry I can’t think of anything wrong about it to comment on. But I did want to give another option for a story since so many couldn’t see anything in this.
Cynthia
Just posted some in the Weekend Photography Challenge #251 Is it Fall y’all or has Spring sprung? After over 2 years with few photographic opportunities, it’s nice being where I can find lots of inspiration.
Cynthia
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<script async src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>Okay, I am not sure why the photos show up with part of the code attached. Obviously they will look better on Flickr.
Cynthia
Fall here in NW Ohio. But that just means more colors. Oh and that the roses are enjoying a final go around before frost.
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<script async src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>Not my roses, but my neighbor’s. She’s been doing what she can with repellent but in spite of the bugs, her roses are blooming like crazy.
Geraniums also getting a last shot at the fall sunshine.
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Hi Gordon. I could not see your photo. It also came up 404 not found for me. I’m glad I’m not the only one who does not wish to put the mistakes on Flickr. After I have done that a couple times already, I ended up making a folder just for shots that need fixing. But I hate having it on Flickr.
Right now anywhere I can be so I can take some interesting photos would be my photo heaven. Mostly for me right now it is still life and macro right here in my home. I like taking the camera to Walmart and photographing all the pretty flowers in their garden shop. I’ve never been told I couldn’t but if they ever did, I’d just tell them I want to see how they might look in my flower bed at home. I also love going to our local Children’s Garden to shoot flowers and plants, etc. Anywhere with nature and wildlife, especially if there is water involved.
I think the two lights are probably light flares. Or UFO’s… Or planets… Here’s why I think so. I took some photos of the moon last fall and got an anomaly in some of the shots. This is the best view, along with a crop to see the flare close up. Looks like a planet but I really think it is a light flare. Unless the camera was able to pick up something that I could not see with my naked eye.
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<script async src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>In the cropped version it really does look like a planet with the color swirls portraying land and water maybe?
All these shots above are amazing. I’ve never done the kind of light painting where you are shining a light on something at night or where you are moving around with lights in your hands, etc. All my light painting so far has been where I am using slightly long exposures and moving the camera itself around. Below is just one example. I have a lot of these in files but not online anywhere. This one I was trying to write my name with the camera. Got the C out. Also, it was when I was still putting my watermark on photos I posted online. Stopped doing that because it was taking up so much space and was reading about the pros and cons of watermarks.
The Flickr link is to my light painting album because I got bored one night and decided to see what would happen if I took some of the light painting photos and played around with the editor software. These were all from Christmas last year.
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Green seems to be the main color I’ve been working with for the past several months even when not planning on it, so I have a LOT of green photos, some realistic and most abstract edits of the real. The original shot for this is a few years old. I took the photo originally so I could post online to see if anyone knew what kind of flower it is. It comes up with the crocuses and has green foliage like crocus. But I’ve never seen a crocus like this before. Then the second one is a brand new abstract edit of the first.
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<script async src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>You know that you can click the control button and scroll wheel on your mouse to enlarge or shrink your font and page size?
BTW, I don’t see any difference on my screen in the fonts.
Just wanted to comment about the question you asked cwyin “Where do you store your images online?” Not everyone does store their images online. I don’t think that it good to assume that all who love photography want their photos stored online at all. Personally I used to use Photobucket for sharing photos with family members who were not close enough to see other members or see the photos in print. But I could not get the photos back off Photobucket so I left that site. Some might “store” their photos on a blog. But for myself, I store my photos on flash drives. The only reason I started to put photos on Flickr was because I was working on getting myself known for sales after being represented by Xanadu Gallery. Before that I had absolutely no intention of using any website to “store” photos on. I don’t think I am unique in that. Therefore I would not assume that everyone on LS is doing so.
I did say above that I think it is a good idea to maybe stop using albums here on LS. But on the other hand, after writing that, I’ve thought about it more. I don’t like going to Shark Tank for help with problem photos and using Flickr to upload them to Shark Tank. This requires using Flickr for not the best shots. I prefer to keep Flickr for those I am satisfied with, not with those I still need help with. Believe me, not all of my photos are on Flickr. But because we have to have them somewhere to post them to Shark Tank, IF you stop using albums here, then we are going to be putting our photos that are not the best representation of us out there online on sites like Flickr and the others.
Also, a question. What happens to those photos that are currently in our albums once you stop using albums on LS? Will they be gone? If gone, will they still be viewable in forum posts? I know I have visited several posts where there is no photo available to look at so I thought maybe those had been removed from the albums. Will this happen with current forum posts that are using album photos?
Sounds good to me. It is so much easier to just share a Flickr photo than try to go through uploading here.
In all honesty, these photos were not planned out. They were photos of opportunity to be done while I was also cooking for the large family I am part of. I didn’t have a lot of time to deal with setting anything up. Also, there are no available outlets to plug in extra lighting where I took this photo. Our kitchen is the brightest room in the whole house. Where I normally shoot my macro and still life, etc. is in my room with a tv tray table set up with whatever surface and background materials, and a lamp stand with 3 bulbs pointed at the subject. I thought the lighting in the kitchen would have been even brighter. The only difference is with the lamp stand I can turn and point the 3 bulbs to direct them on the subject. If things were ideal, I would have a dedicated photo area where I can work. As is, I do what I can with what I have. Let me just say that living in a house with 7 grandchildren isn’t all that conducive to having anything set up and dedicated for any purpose. :p
Either way, I don’t know if the purple would have turned out correct even with more light, as even in both Irene’s edits above and my edits, we could not make the purple the correct shade even though all the other colors matched.
The lavender bowl was not chosen for any other reason than it being the most convenient. I should have used a white plate. The bowl was not supposed to show up in the photos I was taking, however, little slivers of it did as I had the camera lens sitting in the bowl and moving it around for focus. I wanted to keep the sprinkles in the clear container but couldn’t because of the surface and background in that location, as they would have ruined all chances of the photo working. The bowl was pretty close to the same color as the lavender or purple sugar sprinkles. You can see the correct color of the bowl in Irene’s edit above up in the upper left corner between the blue sprinkles. Considering that sliver of the bowl matched correctly and is in shadow, why wouldn’t the sprinkles that have direct light hitting them match?
I’m also thinking that with the natural indirect light from the window, all the colors were perfect in the first photo. Could it be possible that the purple is reactive to the direct artificial light? If that’s the case, it might not have ever turned out right with artificial light no matter how bright.
You are all teaching me new things with everything you are saying and saving your comments so I can be sure to do better with all future macro photography.
Using a tripod hasn’t worked well for me when doing macro, the reason being that I am always sitting down when shooting. Getting the subject matter at a level to be able to see through the view finder or use the live mode and hold the camera into the position I need for macro is pretty much impossible. In most cases, when I am shooting macro, the camera is actually resting in or on the subject matter or in or on the table holding the subject matter which helps with the stability issue. Possibly this is due to using extension tubes but I’m not sure. I don’t know whether an actual macro lens would require that close of a contact between the camera and the subject.
Purple is made by combining red and blue. Primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. But camera editing options use red, green, and blue. I have never understood why they have chosen green which is a secondary color instead of yellow. When editing the colors to try to get the purple, I had the blue maxed out and no matter what I did with the red and green options, I could not match the purple. I couldn’t add more blue and I think blue would have helped. I am thinking that possibly if camera editing programs used yellow, the primary color, instead of green, a secondary color, maybe purple could be matched better. I am no color scientist though or camera software scientist. Do any of you know why camera colors are on RBG instead of RBY?
So they do the super large prints? I thought maybe you used something online. I’m just starting to look at different options so that’s why I was asking.
Looking over all of these…if we could just pick and choose the best of each, we might have it. Each of them has at least one color correct, but none of them have them all. And the purple, unless someone can think of another way, I will just have to go with the purple I got. I know my hand won’t ever be steady enough to select each one individually.
