Dominoes

Posted: May 19, 2016 | Author: Eileen Thompson | Filed under: macro, photography, Still Life | Tags: close up, dominoes, games, macro, photography, still life | 4 Comments

Playing Games

These dominoes must be from the 1930s/40s I think. They were my father-in-laws originally. I thought they would make an interesting still life subject as well as lending themselves to some macro shots too.

I must say that I’m really enjoying using my macro lens….. after struggling for a while on my own to get to grips with my Olympus camera and macro lens , I managed to find someone who could spend a couple of hours with me and explain its mysteries. It was well worth the tuition cost to have practical demonstrations and have questions answered. It’s simply a matter of much practise now so that it’s embedded in my brain rather than keep having to look up my notes all the time. Mind you, the old memory ain’t wot it used to be!!

Bye for now Eileen

Creative Macro

Posted: May 3, 2016 | Author: Eileen Thompson | Filed under: Abstract, effects, Flowers, macro, manipulations, Nature, photography | Tags: abstract, Flowers, lilac, macro, nature, Tulip, water drops, yellow | 7 Comments

Yellow Haze

Thought I would get a bit more ‘arty’ this time and go for a softer look. This is the centre of a yellow tulip.

I Got the Blues

Same image – different colour. I use a prog called ON1 sometimes and the title of this is taken from one of their effects.

Shades of Yellow

Back to normal tulip colour for this one.

Variations

I hope I’m not flogging the water drops on petals to death here! But I do enjoy playing around with them as you never know what gems you’ll end up with ….

Shades of Lilac

I really liked the colour of this one ….

Variations 2

The weather is supposed to get really good this week so I’ll be visiting the Ifield Pond again. I went last week in bright sunshine and forgot to adjust the exposure number on my camera – which spells disaster when photographing swans as their pure whiteness gets blown out and un-rescuable [if there is such a word?] Plus – I wore sunglasses and I ended up not knowing what I was viewing while trying to juggle specs and camera – daft ‘apeth! The swans have 6 babies now and I did get some adequate shots of them, but overall I was disappointed and disgusted with myself…. I hope I can learn from my mistakes though.

till next time, Eileen