Roger Wehage

Makes me want to sneeze already.

Tom, maybe we should start a club.

The next Aristotle.

Thanks Tersha. Now I have to learn how to remove halo artifacts.

#shotonmoment

iPhone XR and Moment macro lens. Focus bracketed 40 images in CameraPixels and focus stacked in Affinity Photo. The flower is about one cm across and one cm deep. Yes, there are ghosts around the tiny petals and I can fix that in Affinity Photo. That’s the result of focusing all the way forward to capture detail in the stamens and…[Read more]

iPhone XR and Moment wide angle lens. Easter Cactus Flower.

The real mystery to me is that this image is more than a 50X magnification of the real thing obtained by an iPhone XR, Moment macro lens, and Affinity Photo, and yet the individual pollen particles are still identifiable. The dimension of the 12 MP sensor in the iPhone XR is 5.6 by 4.2 mm. The diameter of each pollen particle is a fraction of t…[Read more]

Could be part of a tree or not

Our trees haven’t even thought about running sap so we are a long way from flowers. So my contribution is from a lemon-scented geranium.

Robert, I can imagine that B.M. Bower would have had a lot to write about your mountain. I can see living in a small shack at the base of the mountain not far from a clear, cold spring, raising a garden watered from the spring, tilling a small plot of land with the old horses, and taking care of a few animals, sufficient to feed the family.

First attempt at adding some depth using haze. Used five layers of light-colored haze, and the size of each layer is larger than the ones below it. It may be better to slightly darken the haze color and thin it a  bit more to make the deeper part slightly darker and sharper.

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a long time and finally got around to trying it out. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. The mirrors have to be angled just right and they need a tiny bit more angle tweaking to get more reflected area. Then there’s the issue of too much light, so I under exposed by 0.8EV and then brightened some in…[Read more]

Well…if this don’t work there’s no future for me as model.

This image of a stove handle was taken with an iPhone XR attached to a Gosky Universal Cell Phone Adapter Mount attached to a Kenko Lens2scope 10mm 1:4 CE eyepiece attached to a Canon zoom lens EF 70:200mm 1:4 L attached to a Canon zoom lens mount attached to a tripod. (My wife thinks I’m crazy.) The lens was zoomed to 200mm and was about 1.2…[Read more]

Affinity Photo looks like it might be a useful way to add some haze or smoke into the more distant areas using a number of layers. https://www.brusheezy.com/ provides a bunch of free fog and smoke overlays and brushes that can be used with Affinity Photo. I plan to use the same thin fog or smoke on multiple layers and overlap them. The first l…[Read more]

Dave, it’s a good thing we can’t see them like this when chasing around with a swatter. What I need to figure out is how to get them to sit still while sneaking up with my Moment lenses. What was your lighting here? I’m guessing in shade or cloudy because I don’t see any shadows.

Bucweeet, thank you for sharing this because it brought back some old memories. A 2nd Lt. in the Air Force in 1970, I was sent to pilot training at Reese AFB in Lubbock, TX. I didn’t get past the Cessna four seater stage because my eyes and brain weren’t adept at judging depth, and that doesn’t work well when crash landing jets onto hard surfaces.…[Read more]