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Color doesn’t always look better…

Posted by Arno on March 22, 2012
Posted in: black and white, color, flower, macro, nature, photography, Photoshop. Tagged: , , , . Leave a Comment

About a year and a half ago I went through my parents’ house to see if there was something interesting to shoot. Flowers are always good, and since my mom’s pretty much an orchid magician and there’s always one blooming, there’s always a flower to photograph. However, since she manages to keep the things blooming, there’s not much turn-around in the variety of them, there’s only so much you can do without things getting the same.

So the one that I shot this time looks like this i color:

D200, ISO100, 1,5 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm macro, SB-800 off-camera flash

It didn’t have quite as much flowers as last time around, but that would’ve made this time’s version probably too busy.
Here’s the new version:

Orchid

D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm macro, 2x off-camera SB-800

 

Macro photography, something for you?

Posted by Arno on January 30, 2012
Posted in: black and white, color, industry, macro, object, photography, Photoshop, shapes. Tagged: , , , , . Leave a Comment

Things always look different that way.
Last week I had a conversation about this with a buddy of mine. “Should I buy a macro lens?” “Is macro photography something for me?”
It depends… I think macro photography could be something for anyone. But you need to realize that EVERYthing is a potential subject. Which, by the way, counts for everything in photography.
In that sense it’s a lot like black and white photography. You need to learn how to see things in black and white. You need to be able to convert a colored scene into a black and white scene in your mind’s eye and be able to tell how it looks when you drain it from its color and add the necessary contrast (and maybe some grain).

Macro photography isn’t only about a close-up of a bug. It’s not about just the facets of a fly’s eye. Macro photography is everywhere. Every mundane subject from a distance can turn into a great abstract in macro. You just need to recognize it.
Of course this is all subjective, as is everything in photography. But the photographer is the artist. S/He’s the creative one. Everything’s worth a shot.

Question is… Color or black and white? Even in macro photography 😉

Grid

D700, ISO200, 1/125 sec @ f/4.2, Tamron 90mm macro

Grid

D700, ISO200, 1/125 sec @ f/4.2, Tamron 90mm macro

A guy’s world of oblivion, Day 156

Posted by Arno on February 20, 2011
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That same light, directional as it is, also can create interesting shadows and patterns with a lot of contrast.

Fire escape

D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/13, Nikkor 50mm

A guy’s world of detailed focus, Day 89

Posted by Arno on December 15, 2010
Posted in: color, macro, object, photography, shapes. Tagged: , , , , , . 1 comment

In between water and milk we’re doing something else.
For about a year now I’ve been working on this little project, which I call PMS. I have a good number of pictures already, and I hope to make this into an exhibition some time (soon?). So if anyone knows a nice gallery that isn’t afraid of going wildly abstract… Let me know.

Some of you know already, I’ll let the others you figure out what it is by themselves. Hint: it’s not pasta 😀

Prints -as usual- available, and this little project is also to be seen on my website here.
I swear, a lambda print on huge size of one of these images would look absolutely fantastic (if I may say so myself).

PMS

D700, ISO200, 6 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm macro, 2x off-camera SB800 set to rear-sync

(apologies for the jpg compression artifacts, it’s merciless on reds).

There’s a beautiful, wondrous world out there…

Posted by Arno on February 26, 2009
Posted in: color, macro, nature, photography, Photoshop, seasons, shapes, weather. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , . 2 comments

in which words don’t need any place…

D200, ISO100, 1/8 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro

D200, ISO100, 1/8 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro

D200, ISO100, 1/8 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro

D200, ISO100, 1/8 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro

D200, ISO100, 1/8 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro

D200, ISO100, 1/8 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro

D200, ISO100, 1/10 sec - 1/15 sec - 1/30 sec @ f/16, Sigma 10-20mm, HDR post-processing in Photoshop

D200, ISO100, 1/10 sec - 1/15 sec - 1/30 sec @ f/16, Sigma 10-20mm, HDR post-processing in Photoshop