The first snake of the year in the field. As usual it’s an eastern garter snake. Last year we saw a northern water snake and an eastern milk snake. Hopefully this year we’ll see some of the rarer species.
Category: Photography
A Focus Stack in Need of Some Work
My idea was that this cantaloupe would make a good substitute for one of those really weird looking moons of Jupiter. But I need to get the exposure right and then I’ll need to practice cutting it out of the background with photo shop. Then if I can superimpose the Enterprise next to it in front of a starry field, I can drag in Shatner. “We have to rendezvous with the Vulcans on Cantaloupus IV or millions of people will …. DIE!”
18MAR2020 – Photo of the Day
17MAR2020 – Photo of the Day
16MAR2020 – Photo of the Day
15MAR2020 – Photo of the Day
14MAR2020 – Photography – Macro – Focus Stack – Hyacinth Shoot
As noted earlier I had a touch of cabin fever so I decided to try my first outdoor focus stack. What this means is that I have to drag along a laptop computer and a tethering line in addition to the camera and tripod. All of this is easy enough. What isn’t easy is telling the wind to stop blowing for the requisite two or three minutes of exposure time. And in fact, this picture is cropped as tightly as it is because some leaves were blowing around in the debris pile. Looking at it now I also note that the left side shoot is a little over exposed. So let us say as art it’s slightly underwhelming. But as an experiment in field macrophotography technique it will be “required reading at the Academy.”
14MAR2020 – Photo of the Day
13MAR2020 – Photo of the Day
12MAR2020 – Photo of the Day
