It been ages since there was last any movement on Sutterbugs, and we certainly don't have an active topic that I am aware of at the moment. Can only assume this is due to new babies, long commutes to AbuDhabi and trips to Germany. Anyway, I thought 'd give the moss covered stone a kick and see if in was too fat to still roll.
Here are some shots for the last title I recall which was "wild things" taken last month on a trip to a local nature reserve:
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*Drop bears show good use of shallow DOF to isolate the subject from the background. I think the image looks a little washed out: did you take the picture through a window? A bit of PSPP would bring up the image nicely.
ReplyDelete*Kingfisher again shows the ol' shallow DOF trick to good effect. I'd have emphasised a highlight in the eye (zoom in really close and make any reflection whiter) to bring the bird to life.
*Party squeaker is, in the words of Dan Cruikshank, 'lovely'. Isn't macro fun?
(*Yes, I do know what the subjects actually are!)
Paul - The drop bears does look a little washed out on the jpg but in the Tiff it is much betterbut not perfect. Not taken through glass, was taken tjhrough lovely silican free air here Australia (Australia Australia!!)
ReplyDeleteAs for the party popper (good title) this isn't fact taken through macro lense. I recently downloaded a DOG app for the iphone and used this to choose an f value and zoom combination that would give good background blur. The party poper was about a metre away from me and the leaves down at ground level maybe 5m away. I perpossfully got the leaves behind to give a more interesting background than just black, and at the time was humming "From little things, big things grow"
Nicely done sir.
ReplyDeleteBears is a bit of a bulls eye for me.
However the kingfisher is stunning, sharp well lit and splash of colour,
Fern is good use of DOF as well, I love the ferns in Auz, the geometric patterns are great.
Cheers,
Richard B.