Filefish – aluterus scriptus
Photographed at approximately 8 meters deep.
D800 in Ikelite housing, ISO200, 1/500 sec @ f/4, Tamron 90mm macro, 2 Ikelite DS161 strobes
color
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Yeah, pun intended…
Sometimes it happens that you’re driving around somewhere and all of a sudden your eye sees something (that isn’t there), and you need to stop. You need to stop and get out (if you happen -for a change- to have your camera with you) to take a picture of that something that isn’t there.
My mind’s eye is ruthless like that. To me it’s a blessed curse, I say. I haven’t had a problem with it, but I’ve had people in the past whom I knew to roll their eyes if I would pull over again and drag the camera out to take pictures of something that just isn’t visible to their eyes.
Usually people get it when they see someone take pictures of a beautiful landscape, but when they see someone sitting on their knees in the knee-high grass taking (close-up) pictures of an old weathered hinge of a gate… That may not receive such understanding.
But of course they haven’t seen what I do with it.
My cross-processing baby, my little bastard child, misunderstood, misnamed, confused with much less artistic things… *grins*
Anyway… Here’s another one. If you’re new here, type it in the search box to find more of them 🙂
I find this one actually quite appealing. It’s not as colorful as the rest, but there’s something funky with it 🙂
D800, ISO400, 1/125 sec @ f/4.8, Nikkor 50mm
The layer palette from Photoshop showing the steps in the process to the end result
The end result after all the work is done
Some of you may know I have a little project going on, which is… well… abstract. I posted a picture of it a long time ago and I have a separate gallery of the images on my other website.
I thought for the Abstract theme I could find another one for my gallery. And a few extra, too.
Guess I need not say more.
D800, ISO400, 1/125 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO100, 1/3 sec @ f/8, Tamron 90mm macro
D800, ISO100, 1/3 sec @ f/8, Tamron 90mm macro
A suitable door is all it takes.
Before:
D700, ISO200, 1/125 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 50mm
Oh, and of course a tad bit of Photoshop:
Screenshot Photoshop, what you can’t see: the Hue/Saturation layer is set to blend mode Overlay.
Which then results in:
The door after post-processing
I had still a bit of a flu. I still had a good head ache. But I had to get something to eat. And while I was there, anyway, I decided to just quickly get the soap. So I went in, with head ache and all, that got worse and worse. And after paying, which made the head ache even worse (darling, I SERIOUSLY miss you, you should be able to afford a crappy piece of soap for just under 10€ a lot better with your MBA than I can as a poor starving freelancing artist 😀 ), got the hell out of the place. Dreading the day when I run out of moisturizer. I’m gonna have to take out another mortgage on the house!
And even the picture is a disaster. But right now I couldn’t care less…
D700, ISO200, 30 sec @ f/13, Nikkor 50mm
Värileikki
I’m having an exhibition with a fellow artist the coming two weeks. It runs from May 12th-May 24th.
The official opening is on Sunday May 10th, from 18:00-19:30 in Kässän Taidetalo in Virkkala (Tynninharjuntie 21).
If you’re from around, you’re around and you feel like popping in: welcome!
I’m a Photoshop guy… At least, that’s what I thought.
Over the past years quite a couple of things what I thought have changed.
I thought I was a dog person… Turns out that I love cats equally much.
I thought I was a Photoshop guy, turns out that I love Lightroom equally much.
I thought I was a nature photographer, turns out that I have NO clue what photographer I am…
What am I going to do?
Anyway… Here’s a little before and after, Lightroom work.
Nothing you couldn’t do in Photoshop either, but well… It’s easier in Lightroom, and it saves time not having to open it in Photoshop, and save an extra file in the collection.
D200, ISO100, 10 sec @ f/32
Lightroom how-to
End result
Giorgio Armani is treating me well (and he should for the money I invested in him 😀 ).
Got some feedback on my previous pics and was advised to put in some complementary colors.
So… following the good advise:
D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/16, Tamron 28-75mm, off-camera SB-800 with Photoflex softbox
And the beauty?
The picture is unedited save for a bit tighter crop. No saturation, no alteration. Right out of the camera 🙂
Good that the flowers don’t have GIORGIO ARMANI on them, otherwise it would’ve been one hell of an expensive picture 😀
Helsinki’s not really my home town, Espoo is. But they’re so close and I’m actually more often “traveling” through Helsinki than I am through Espoo (and Helsink has a lot more touristic things to show for), that I’m mixing them both.
But today some Espoo. Been living here for six years now and this was the first time (yeah, I know… it’s sad…) I visited the old church in town.
This would actually fit well in the Fall series too. I love the red tree next to the church. It fits well with the building 🙂
D200, ISO100, 1/500 sec @ f/5.6, Sigma 10-20mm
After 10 days of continuous rain (it’s actually been 6 weeks like this I’ve heard, but I’ve been here only for the past week and a half to witness it) it actually stopped raining! And not only that…. there’s actually some blue in the sky! Maybe we’ll get some sort of, well, not summer, but, well… you know what I mean…
D200, ISO100, 1/500sec @ f/4, Sigma 10-20mm, circular polarizer
Nature hasn’t really decided what it’s going to be. Some extended summer, fall, or winter. At this particular moment the sun is shining behind the clouds, but it’s cold for the time of year.
D200, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/2.8,Tamron 28-75mm, off-camera flash SB-800
D200, ISO100, 1/180 sec @ f/2.8, Tamron 28-75mm, 36mm Kenko extension tube
D200, ISO100, 1/60 sec @ f/3.3, Tamron 28-75mm, 36mm Kenko extension tube, off-camera flash SB800