With all the travel in late June and early July, I've had to catch up on blog reading and email. So it took me a bit to find the time to review my photos from June.
My goal this year is to just enjoy the process of capturing the interplay of light and subject. We've been so busy that I've not done much with my photography study, but early in June I did cover the chapter on lenses in Visual Poetry by Chris Orwig. If there is any theme for June it's what happens if you change the lens.
The wildflowers were pretty thick in June. I love close up of flowers, so my macro came out early, but I did pull out my other lenses to see what would happen. The following photos were all taken with a Canon 70D, some may be cropped.
Sigma 105 mm macro lens
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| Black Eyed Susan |
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| Basket Flower |
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| Basket Flower Bud |
Tamron 18-400 telephoto lens
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| Black Eyed Susan |
Tamron 11-18 Wide Angle lens
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Basket Flower (cropped)
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| Roses |
Lensbaby Fish Eye lens (borrowed from My Guy)
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| Indian Blanket (cropped) |
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| Basket Flower (cropped) |
Close ups with the Fish Eye lens are not straight forward to take, but they turned out really cool. It took me a bit to figure out how to crop with a circular mask in Photoshop Elements. The Fish Eye does capture a lot, I had a very hard time not capturing my shoes. Cropping them out was just easier. I turned the lens up for a final shot of the sky. It gives the best perspective on what this lens can capture.
Definitely a different way to look at the sky. Not a lens I'll use often, but if you want different, it's an option.
In May, I photographed how light interacted with the zipper on my pencil bag. For June it was light and bubbles (with the Sigma 105 mm macro lens).
I thought these turned out really cool. Any guess as to what the subject was?
The last photo that made my curated collection for June has been on the blog before, but I'm going to add it here as well. This photo was taken with my I-Phone 12.
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| Queenie |
Black cats are amazingly difficult to get a good photo of. I like this one because it's such a good one of her face. That was taken the weekend we were cat sitting and it's by far the best of the many I took of her that weekend.
My photography for July has gotten off to a slow start. I didn't take many photos when we were traveling, it was just so hot. But this week I'm back to looking for interesting things to photograph.
Thanks for sticking with me through this non-quilting blog post. I have a hard time picking a favorite photo this month. Several are my favorites for various reasons, the Basket Flower fish eye, the bubbles and of course Queenie. Is there one that stands out to you?
What fun to play with all your lenses!! the 18-400 - do you need a stock to hold it or can you just use your hands?
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your photography posts, so hope you will keep sharing them! The flower close-ups are lovely. Your bubbles could be from a Coke - mostly I think thst because of the dark color. My favorite photo is the one of Queenie - you so rarely see photos of cats actually looking at you. The sparkles of light are neat in that photo, too!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos, Kate. I'm kind of partial to black-eyed Susans, and so those are my favorites. I'm going to guess dish soap for your bubbles, but only because it seems an unlikely subject. It really could be anything. When I first got interested in photography, I considered the Lens Baby fish-eye, but then just never followed through with it. It does give an interesting way of looking at things.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are great! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI'm going with bubble bath! I really enjoyed all the photos, and I'll always pick Queenie first, but I really like the fish-eye sky shot. Also love the black-eyed Susans. I saw a photo on Facebook of several stands of black-eyed Susans that were growing in one of the most damaged areas of Barnsdall. Bet they came from soil picked up somewhere else and deposited by the tornado. Anyway it was heartening to see them.
ReplyDeleteI actually like all of the photos, but I really love the sky one
ReplyDeleteDorothy in W. WA.
Hmmm was it cola? Love all of your photos, Kate. Your photos are a work on art. I was thinking of you earlier this week when I pulled out my camera.I started playing with the different lenses, but alas did not get any photos as stunning as yours.
ReplyDeleteThat basket flower bulb is so cool, that’s my favorite, mostly because I haven’t seen that perspective before.
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