Spontaneous Photo Outing

Last night a friend of mine and I were gorging ourselves with pizza at a local pizza buffet. After the final bite I felt like falling into a food coma. It sounded appealing, but then my friend said, “You know what we should do? Let’s go take photos!”

My first thought was “But that requires movement. I’ve already shoved like a million slices of pizza in my mouth, what more do you want from me?”

After I pushed away the sarcastic thoughts I kindly agreed. Don’t get me wrong. I love spontaneous photo outings, but the food coma was getting the best of me. I’m glad I fought against the temptation to pass out and let my body focus on digesting delicious yet disgustingly unhealthy amounts of pizza.

When we left the restaurant we had about an hour-and-a-half of day light. I realize now my friend’s timing, was spot on for landscapes. Here are the results.

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Mid Exposure
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Under Exposure
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Over Exposure

Macro – Up Close and Personal

I’ve had a hunger to learn more about macro photography, but never took the time to dive into it. I discovered the need to light the subject you are working with. The subject requires more light than usual, because I used macro tubes for the examples below.

First Try at the Macro Tubes

I used my 17-50 mm f/2.8 tamron lens with the macro tube and boy did that give me a headache. the length of the lens wasn’t enough and the depth of field was far too shallow, but I somehow got a few shots in focus.

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Round 2 with the Macro Tube

This time around I used an 28-135 mm with a f/3.5-5.6 aperture. I used the light of the window sill as a soft window light as well as for a place for direct light. I used two sheets of paper to even diffuse and reflect some light for the shots of the apple.

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