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Blue Orchid Bud

Feb
12
2012
by Jessy | 0 Comments

While at Lowes the other day picking up things for our garden I found these amazing blue orchids.  I am a fan of orchids and always seem to kill them but I have learned a new secret from a friend to keep them alive.  I decided maybe these orchids are the ones that will survive, so I’m trying.

This is an image of the bloom and buds on the end of the orchid stem.  I kept turning myself, camera, and plan to ensure the bokah was strong and the tile produced a nice smooth tan in the back to not distract from the amazing color of these orchids.  I took this image with my 105MM Macro on my Nikon D7000.  I didn’t use any amazing lighting or anything, this was actually taken in the evening on the floor in my entryway.

Blue Orchid Bud

D7000, 105MM, ISO 1000, 1/10 sec at f/3.2, no flash

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Halloween and Pumpkins!

Nov
02
2011
by Jessy | 0 Comments

Did you all enjoy halloween!?  We had a great party at work and there were some really neat pumpkins for the pumpkin contest.  One of the shots I did turned out pretty well so I thought I would share it.  This is a picture of the winning carved pumpkin, it’s the Death Star destroying Alderaan.  I think he did a great job and deserved to win the pumpkin carving contest.

 

Death Star Destroying Alderaan

Exposure: 0.5 sec at f/4.0 ISO: 640

 

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

 

I’m including exposure and ISO on every image here now as a helpful hint.  If there’s something else I should include as well let me know.
Thanks!

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Nikkor Lens 105MM #3 – Lens Review

Oct
23
2011
by Jessy | 0 Comments

We went out the pumpkin patches today to find pumpkins for carving.  I took my Nikon (Nikkor) 105MM f/2.8 G ED AF-S Micro lens with me to play with it a little more.  This is not exactly a need for a micro lens but I had fun with it either way.

The bokah created by this lens and the extreme aperture is definitely of a specific use.  I think I was able to pull it off in the image below of a line of the pumpkins they had.  I think this makes a nice fall style image.

 

Pumpkin Row

Exposure 1/1500 sec at f/3.0 ISO 100

The exposure was 1/1500 sec at f/3.0 with an ISO of 100.  Of course using LightRoom I warmed up the temp a little a little and added some vignetting.

Before we went I grabbed an extra lens because I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to get an images I liked due to the use for the lens but I was happily surprised with what I was able to get with this lens.  I am starting to like the lens more and more as I use it and this is only day 2!

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Nikkor Lens 105MM #2 – Lens Review

Oct
22
2011
by Jessy | 0 Comments

As promised my Nikon (Nikkor) 105MM f/2.8 G ED AF-S Micro arrived in the mail!  It took a few days before I had time to play with this but I was out front taking a few images this morning.

Upon receiving the lens I did work with it a little in the house and found a few things that created a few questions.

1. Most of my Nikkor Lens’ are from Japan,  that said since I ordered this from Ebay I was concerned it may be not of the same quality.  Upon review and searching online I found that nikkor lenses are made in Japan, Taiwan, and China.  Each factory follows the same training, quality control, and standards as each other factory.

2. While focusing the lens appeared to randomly “click”, this odd noise really concerned me as none of my other lenses do that.  I did some searching on this as well and on the nikonian.org site I found that this is also normal and that it’s at standard f-stops across all of the 105MM.  This is not an issue as the lens still performs well!

When on auto focus the lens does hunt a little while trying to determine how to focus and this takes longer than on other lenses.  The hunting will take a bit to get use to but I really prefer manual focus thus far on this lens anyway.  This mixed with the breathing may cause issues for some people, but for me it servers the need and quite well I may add.

Below are a few of the images I took this morning, the only editing that was done to these was cropping in Adobe LightRoom but with extra work they may be made more dramatic and impressive.  I will continue to post about this lens with updates of things I learned as well as more images as I learn to better use this lens.  These images in raw form will give you an idea  of what you can get out of this lens with little to no experience with Macro work.

Pink Hibiscus Stamen Macro Image

Dimensions: 4928 X 3264 Cropped: 3638 X 2939 Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/3.3 ISO: 100

I have included the dimensions, cropped, exposure, and ISO of each of these images to provide an idea of the settings and any changes.  The impressiveness of images of the stamens is the little hairs that you can see in some of these images.

Pink Hibiscus detailed pollen

Dimensions: 4928 X 3264 Cropped: 956 X 973 Exposure: 1/500 sec at f/33 ISO: 100

The image above is cropped in very closely as I was impressed with the shapes of everything on the stamen.  The detail that you can see with each piece of pollen.  For those of you with macro experience I am sure this is all normal, but for people like me this is still all new and exciting!

yellow hibiscus ants

Dimensions: 4928 X 3264 Cropped: 3512 X 2875 Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/3.3 ISO: 100

 

This image shows the detail and color in those tiny ants that are on the flowers.  I was shocked when I was looking through the view finder and was able to see the color in the ant even.  Those ants are tiny and I know I would be able to see details on small items but this was amazing!

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Flow of Water in Photographs

Sep
06
2011
by Jessy | 0 Comments

Many people recommend using different filters (neutral density) when photographing water and waterfalls.  I typically agree with this and have previously done this in practice.  This weekend while out in Canaan Valley in West VirginiaI had the opportunity to go to Blackwater Falls. This is a beautiful little place and just a short walk (192 steps) down to the wonderful waterfall.  I was playing with shutter speeds, exposures, etc trying to get the shot I wanted without having the filters I thought I needed.

Below are the 2 photos taken from the same spot within a minute of each other with different settings.  This will help to show some of the things you can do if you know the details of your shutter speeds and how to alter it.

Blackwater Falls exposer 1/25 sec at f/3.5

 

Blackwater Falls exposure 1/6 sec at f/19

 

You can see how the longer exposure make the water stream and flow nicely rather than show every drop coming down.  This is something the the filters will do for you as well without the need to change the settings on your camera.

 

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