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Flowers for a Brighter Day

Apr
03
2012
by Jessy | 0 Comments

It’s only Tuesday and it’s already been one of those weeks.  Do you know what I’m talking about?  It’s those weeks where you are getting several days worth of work completed in a single day but there is no end in site.  It seems as though these are very prevalent during holiday weeks.  Yes, Friday is Good Friday, and I’m excited to have it off to spend some time away from the computer and with family and friends.

Last night while I was out playing ball with the dogs I noticed my roses were blooming!  No only did I get to play with my dogs but I ran in the house to grab the camera and get a few shots of the roses.  I think they came out very well and helped to brighten my day a bit…and my week.

These were taken with my Nikon 7000 and my macro 105MM lens.  Hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Pink Rose

105MM ISO 400 1/45 sec at f/4.8

White Rose Pink Tips

105MM ISO400 1/45sec at f/4.8

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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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Photographing Fireworks

Jul
05
2011
by Jessy | 1 Comment

Fireworks are the same principle as photographing lightening depending on your distance from the firework and the desired affect.

For the following with a sparkler I used the same settings as the post I did previously about lightening (ISO to 100, WB to light bulb, and Aperature to 5.6), you can see the lightening post here.

The image I really wanted to play with is below, it’s my husband helping me out a little playing with a sparkler.
I love you

This image was only resized, no retouching, I’m not sure how you would go about retouching/fixing an image like this.

I used the same settings on this image:

As you can see this image has the same streaking as the I Love You image above. This is shown due to the settings on the camera and the amount of time the shutter is open. Both of these actions happened within feet of me. Had I altered the settings to cloudy, or a higher ISO there would have been far less streaks and would not have produced these affects.

Unfortunately I was busy playing with the fireworks and didn’t take many different types of shots so I do not currently have another other options to show you at the different settings.

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Lightening Photograph

Jun
25
2011
by Jessy | 0 Comments

Last week it was storming and the lightening was just amazing. I set up the tripod in my garage (so the camera would not get wet), wet the ISO to 100, WB to light bulb, and Aperature to 5.6 and took these images.

I converted them to black and white because I love black and white but they could have been left in color as well. If you look closely you will notice that there are multiple strikes in the images, the shutter was open for an extended period of time due to the amount of light that the camera was waiting for. This helps to create more impressive photos with multiple strikes. These of course are not some of the greatest images out there but they show the point. If you are set up in the right location you could probably get several more strikes and have a more impressive photo.

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