Monday 1 March 2021

The Wood That Wasn't There

The Wood That Wasn't There

Over the long months of lockdown, I've become increasing attracted to the work of Frozen Mutton Farquharson (Google him if you're not familiar). Having just invested in a new camera system, I'm interested to find out what it can do, and how I can get the Farquharson feel. Being 2021, my new camera system is, of course, a phone. Although I chose not to add virtual sheep to this image, just like Farquharson's landscapes, this view does not really exist. For the first time for years, I set an alarm before dawn and ventured forth in the gloom to capture the vision inside my head. As so often when I plan a landscape outing, dawn didn't happen today, just gloom plus not enough mist to be useful. Thus this image is synthetically constructed, much as Farquharson's were. Computational photography meets Farquharson's landscapes. 

The Technical Stuff
6 portrait orientation images, each composed of 4 median stacks, composited into a panorama. Orton Effect added to counteract the gloom, plus a little more synthetic mist. 

iPhone 11 Pro Max back triple camera f/1.8  4.2 mm 1/59 ISO 500

 



Monday 6 July 2020

High Key Botanicals

I haven't done any of these for a while but I fancied a change. Affinity Photo continues to get better the more I use it.

Timothy

Star Jasmine

Jasmine

Love-in-a-mist



Tuesday 14 January 2020

Little stars in our midst

Little stars in our midst

Common Chickweed - Stellaria media - "little stars in our midst".

It looks like my new project has begun: The Thumbnail Flora - flowers smaller than my thumbnail.


Friday 10 January 2020

A New Project?

Bodnant Wayfarer

January rolls around and I can't help thinking about a new photography project for 2020. I'm always in two minds about projects, knowing that I'll wind up desperate for them to be finished, but in spite of that ... technical feasibility noodling around has begun. Should I?

Bodnant Wayfarer, Viburnum × bodnantense "Dawn".

Thursday 17 October 2019

First Frost

First Frost


Always worth marking the first frost of the year.

Sony ILCE-7RM2
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
f16 0.6s ISO 100



Friday 27 September 2019

All That Remains

All That Remains


This week, before the rain, we cut our urban meadow. Until next year, this is all that remains.


Sony ILCE-7RM2
FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
f16 0.6s ISO 100