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Playing with texture

I have been taking part in a Zoom meeting of Bishop’s Waltham Photographic Society, about using textures. The speaker has been using Photoshop. During the presentation I worked out how […]

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nut and bolt

taken with 60mm macro lens and Raynox DCR-250 super macro conversion lens. The nut is about 3mm acrooss.

experimenting

droplets

After lunch, I noticed droplets of water inside a plastic bottle on the table. I placed a blue biscuit tin behind it, and reached for my camera and macro lens […]

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focus stacking

beans

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moth (2)

Not the exact same image as yesterday. This time processed on my pc using Luminar.

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moth

This moth was on the bathroom window this morning. The wingspan is about 2cm. Heavily processed on my tablet using Snapseed.

black and white

feather 3

black and white

feather 2

black and white

feather

focus stacking

dead hoverfly

the owner of the wing shown in the previous photograph. I didn’t quite get this right as the insect’s eye is not sharp.

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wing

the tiny wing of a dead hoverfly, looking like a stained glass window.

black and white

leaves on the silk tree

A black and white close up, manual focus again. We bought a packet of seeds in France in 2008, and only planted them a few years later.

experimenting

buzzing

An experiment with manual focus for an upcoming project. Not easy when the subject would not keep still!

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hollyhocks

One of our hollyhocks, backlit by the setting sun.

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pencils again

I decided to try a different approach – I slightly rotated the image and then made a severe vertical crop.

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