23 Apr 13. Having been made aware that the cherry trees along Lake Washington were in full display, we decided to combine a trip to the dentist with a visit to the shoreline of Lake Washington where we both grew up and an area where we frequently rode our bikes as young kids. For those of you familiar with the Tidal Basin in D.C, think of an area 50x that large lined with cherry trees, a gift from Japan, which are best seen in and around Seward Park. And in place of a national monument there is a 14,000+ foot mountain guarding the area! It is rather spectacular to see in person, especially in color, but as this is B&W Tuesday, here is what we saw Monday afternoon in monochrome. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/400 sec @ f /13.
24 Apr 13. In response to a surprisingly large number of requests, I'm taking the easy way out today and sharing with you the same image I shared yesterday, this time in color. Everything I wrote about it yesterday remains the same, just that the color has been returned to what it was. Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/400 sec @ f /13.
25 Apr 13. With macro photography allowing me to create my favorite kind of images, I feel compelled to share one every now and then, and so that is what you will be looking at for today. This is a table top production with the subject standing in a vase placed in front of a solid backdrop, although it is highly unlikely that the approach will be obvious from the shot. I used supplementary flash as my main light, as opposed to incorporating it as a fill light, in an effort to produce an image that was fairly flat.Not something one would generally do, but I wanted to severely manipulate it and as such wanted an image that was very evenly lit. You should be able to identify the object, but if not, the answer is in the title. I used several layer styles to achieve the final soft look, and employed a couple different plug-in filters to accomplish it, although it all could be achieved simply using photoshop albeit with significantly greater effort. Nikon D300s; 105 macro; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/60 sec @ f /3.5 with full flash.
