I know this is the middle of winter!! Just to cheer us up and to look forward to the lazy days of spring and summer, here’s a lovely daffodil on a black background.
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Nikon D80 Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro lens SB600 Speedlight External flash f/4.6 1/2500 ISO200 Processed in Adobe Lightroom4.1
October gets over today, and cold rain and winds lash Cambridge. The nights come early. In the midst of all this, a single rose valiantly blooms for the last time in 2012.
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Nikon D80 with external Speedlight SB-600 flash Tamron 18-250 f/3.6-6.3 Lens 1/60 at f/6.0 130mm ISO200 Post-processed using Adobe Lightroom 4.1
Autumn mornings offer a great chance to see myriad spider webs drenched in the early morning dew making a million natural necklaces of tiny pearly dew drops. I took these pictures on just one such day. The industrious spider had built this web on the clothesline overnight.
I am constantly amazed at the persistence of the spider to continually attempt to make a web in the most unlikely of places, day after day. Maybe there is a lesson in it for us all….
Technical details
Nikon D80 Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro lens Nikon Speedlight SB-600 flash Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4.1
Last week I had this really nice bunch of gold-coloured roses and I wanted to try out my photography skills using a remote flash on commander mode. I placed the flash on the tripod and right angles to the photograph with some interesting results. One of two of these are with the flash on the camera, but can you tell the difference?
The main advantage I found to having an external remote flash was to be able to play with the colours and backgrounds. No post-processing carried out for any of these pictures. The roses too look different depending on the light source.
What do you think? Click on any image to see a full-size view.
Technical Details:
Nikon D-80 with remote SB-600 speedlight flash in commander mode 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens
As autumn draws ever closer here in the United Kingdom, the last of the summer roses go out in a blaze of colour for a final time in 2012. The following pictures are of one such rose in my garden. I would be interested in knowing which one of the four you like best, or none as well!
Please click on each picture to view a full size version. In order to achieve a dark background, I have used a flash and post-processed to cut darks and shadows.
Technical Details:
Nikon D80 SB600 Speedlight Flash 1/125 to 1/40 f/7.1 ISO200 Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro lens Post-processed in Adobe Lightroom 4.1
