Still working on the square week. Had an idea, executed to about 70% of what I imagined. Not got the time to do it as I’d have liked, but hopefully you get the idea and like it. Squares of fruit (and seeds, ran out of fruit options) and a square of ice cream, melting.
Running out of time today to take an image. Grabbed square and rectangle things to make a square. It just happened to make a face (if you squint) and let me have some fun with lighting and some Lightroom basics. Quick bit of fun.
Given the 100mm week made me use my camera and not my phone for a whole week, I thought I’d set a challenge for myself again this week. So, randomly I picked square. Nothing more than that. To begin, here is my first square them image, whole bunch of square things around my home. Simple lighting, quick image.
Yep, another binary day. Also 10.10.10 day. Binary value of 42. So also Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy day! Here is the result of all those things. I did try to take it at 10:10pm too, but chilled out for too long and only managed one of them at this time. So I took the second one 10 minutes later. Enough 10′s in there?!
Oh, and I completed a week of shooting images only on my 100mm. Wahey. No iPhone pictures this week.
New wood stove needed running in, so thought I’d use it as an excuse to take some quick images of the flames. Used the 100mm, probably wasn’t the best for the job, but I wasn’t going to miss out on the macro week!
My tulip gift was on its last legs and I noticed as I went to clear the dropped leaves away how glorious the colours looked laying against the slate. I loved the pattern and the translucency of the leaves as they lost their vibrancy and my 365 for today was born. Was only planning a quick snapshot, got but addicted to try different things and before I knew it, an hour had passed. Quite pleased with them, even if they are staged. Day 5 of macro week, just 2 days to go. Feeling rather pleased, lets see if I can make it through the weekend.
Day 4 in the macro house. Was reaching the end of the day and had to do something close at hand. Happen to have received a hard case recently that includes a valve and thought, why not. Simple setup of off-camera flash bouncing off the ceiling. Job done. 5 minutes. I do not have the rely on my iPhone it seems.
Another day another macro. Over the past few days I have been very impressed with some spider shots floating around the twitter and flickr spheres, particulary from Reikan Photography (see some here on his flickr stream). I had 5 minutes, so no intention of grabbing anything as spectacular as these, but was rather pleased with the results, particularly the image of the spider shooting the web out of it’s … web hole?!?! Biology was never my strong point.
OK, so it is a bad pun, but on yesterday I declared to myself that this week I would use my macro lens all week and not try to make them all close ups of flowers either and not necessarily that close. Mainly just about using only the 100mm lens and seeing what happened. So … day 2 of macro week and I got all seedy.
Have to keep these keys hanging up to prevent the kids from accidentally locking themselves in the bathroom, but when we have visitors they are essential to stop the kids from walking in whilst, well, you get the idea. Not sure why, but they just appealed tonight.
