Arvy777 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Happy/blood-full Halloween everyone! 🧛♂️🦇 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John Mitchell Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 (edited) This has been a lousy fall for photography here. We seemed to go straight from summer to grey winter weather with very little colour in between. However, I did manage to take a few autumn nature pics. This dogwood grows outside our front window. Edited November 11, 2021 by John Mitchell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 33 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: This has been a lousy fall for photography here. We seemed to go straight from summer to grey winter weather with very little colour in between. However, I did manage to take a few autumn nature pics. This dogwood grows outside our front window. Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 8 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: Beautiful! Thanks, Betty. It was actually a very dull day. I'm surprised the image turned out as bright and cheery as it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: Thanks, Betty. It was actually a very dull day. I'm surprised the image turned out as bright and cheery as it did. I’ve found the best time to shoot autumn foliage is on overcast days. One can escape those nasty blown highlights that replace color. Then it’s just a matter of good PP to brighten and intensify the colors a tad, if needed. You’ve done that. This one, leaves of my Burning Bush, was in the sun from the front. I had to move around to the shadiest side, and even so, you can see the left side where a few leaves were blanched of intense color from the sun. Edited November 11, 2021 by Betty LaRue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 54 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: I’ve found the best time to shoot autumn foliage is on overcast days. One can escape those nasty blown highlights that replace color. Then it’s just a matter of good PP to brighten and intensify the colors a tad, if needed. You’ve done that. This one, leaves of my Burning Bush, was in the sun from the front. I had to move around to the shadiest side, and even so, you can see the left side where a few leaves were blanched of intense color from the sun. I did lighten and brighten things up as best I could. Yes, colours do tend to "pop" on cloudy days, and no troublesome highlights to contend with. However, it's probably OK to have some overcooked highlights on a burning bush. 😃 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 1 minute ago, John Mitchell said: I did lighten and brighten things up as best I could. Yes, colours do tend to "pop" on cloudy days, and no troublesome highlights to contend with. However, it's probably OK to have some overcooked highlights on a burning bush. 😃 True! 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) SPIDER WARNING. Been a while since we've had anything here but this splendid fellow now lives behind a kitchen cabinet. A lace-weaver? Hosted image at full-size-2 clicks- https://postimg.cc/4n7NhxmT Alamy no longer seems to show that. Still working on my technique with the macro lens because its sweet spot is only f11 and I have great difficulty with DoF. It really struggles below f16 and post sharpening won't do. I'd love to know what the expert here do. Edited February 21, 2022 by spacecadet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 2 hours ago, spacecadet said: SPIDER WARNING. Been a while since we've had anything here but this splendid fellow now lives behind a kitchen cabinet. A lace-weaver? Hosted image at full-size-2 clicks- https://postimg.cc/4n7NhxmT Alamy no longer seems to show that. Still working on my technique with the macro lens because its sweet spot is only f11 and I have great difficulty with DoF. It really struggles below f16 and post sharpening won't do. I'd love to know what the expert here do. Is it carrying its young on its back? Looks like it to me. If it is you are going to be overrun with them, but don't send me any I have my own problems. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, Allan Bell said: Is it carrying its young on its back? Looks like it to me. If it is you are going to be overrun with them, but don't send me any I have my own problems. Allan No, it's just hairy. If you click through on the link it's clearer. We did have a herd of spiderlings under the car bonnet once though. When the car lived outside we had a long-term inhabitant in one of the wing mirrors. We consider spiders in the house to be part of the deal. Nothing to do with our housekeeping of course😉 Watching one truss up a wasp was extraordinary. It didn't have a chance. Edited February 22, 2022 by spacecadet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 58 minutes ago, spacecadet said: No, it's just hairy. If you click through on the link it's clearer. We did have a herd of spiderlings under the car bonnet once though. When the car lived outside we had a long-term inhabitant in one of the wing mirrors. We consider spiders in the house to be part of the deal. Nothing to do with our housekeeping of course😉 Watching one truss up a wasp was extraordinary. It didn't have a chance. Yes useful little friends. Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Richards Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 On 21/02/2022 at 16:26, spacecadet said: SPIDER WARNING. Been a while since we've had anything here but this splendid fellow now lives behind a kitchen cabinet. A lace-weaver? Hosted image at full-size-2 clicks- https://postimg.cc/4n7NhxmT Alamy no longer seems to show that. Still working on my technique with the macro lens because its sweet spot is only f11 and I have great difficulty with DoF. It really struggles below f16 and post sharpening won't do. I'd love to know what the expert here do. Whilst I wouldn't harm it, if it was living behind one of my kitchen cabinets it would have been evicted by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) 55 minutes ago, Dave Richards said: Whilst I wouldn't harm it, if it was living behind one of my kitchen cabinets it would have been evicted by now. Can't chuck it out in this weather, surely😵 If he can make a living there he's welcome to it. Probably gets the odd fruit fly. Or, as I said, wasp if he's really hard. Edited February 22, 2022 by spacecadet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Richards Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, spacecadet said: Can't chuck it out in this weather, surely😵 If he can make a living there he's welcome to it. Probably gets the odd fruit fly. Or, as I said, wasp if he's really hard. Into the woodpile at the bottom of the garden which has been left as a bug 'hotel'. Very sheltered; he would be OK and probably happier there. Lots of bugs to feast on.🐛 Edited February 22, 2022 by Dave Richards corrected text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 (edited) Still just me then? OK, this year's amaryllis, white b/g for a change- I haven't turned the colour up to 11, it looks like that. Pretty much. Actually the WB varies a bit as Remote Camera Control and the A58 disagree about the colour temperature of flash. Oops just noticed the edge of the roll at the top, thought I'd lost that.......... Going abstract, Edward Weston did it better but why not... Edited April 19, 2022 by spacecadet 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 (edited) Been a while. As always, click through twice for 100%. A green shield bug rescued from the chipper then forgotten in a jar for a day. Still, plenty for him to scoff in our garden. Edited September 5, 2022 by spacecadet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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