There are so many run down areas in Chicago. In fact, I live quite close to an urban area that is in the rebuilding phase. This provides many nice texture specimens such as this. I can’t wait till I have time to get out and actually use the macro lens to do more of this type of photography.
I was finally able to get out and take a few pictures with the macro lens. Wow, talk about a different shooting experience. It’s definitely going to have to take some getting used to. To begin with, I really need to remember to take it off of auto focus continuous. With the incredibly shallow depth of field, a small little movement causes the camera to focus on another part, which makes things I don’t want in focus and vice versa. There are some pretty interesting other shots that I may put up. I have another one of this daisy, but face on and the petals are the only thing in focus. It looks quite strange. Hopefully I’ll be able to get out and use it a bit more this week.
This is the first photo that I’ve processed with the Velvia Vision Photoshop plugin. I was actually contemplating purchasing it awhile ago, but never actually did. However, after spending way too much time processing some of my shots, and them not coming out as punchy as I wanted, I decided to go for it. I also purchased the Web Presenter Pro plugin at the same time. It will be interesting to see how these help my post processing.
Oh, and I’m sorry about yesterday’s outage. I did some upgrades on the backend over the weekend and some unexpected things happened. Thankfully I at least know why, stupid ISA 2006.
I definitely love bringing out the textures. I can’t wait to use the 105mm macro lens. I wonder how much different my shots will start being because of it.
I’m not sure what it was, but in my first photo class there seems to be a theme around this bull. I guess it all started when Joel and I decided to utilize the bull statue for our motion assignment. I wish my pictures of him had turned out better, but sadly they were all out of focus (at least he was), and so they won’t be making it up here. I believe every week, minus the weeks we had to take pictures of a person, the bull was the subject of at least one image.
The bull, on the corner of Michigan Ave and Washington St.
These blossoms remind me of what spring is all about. In fact, this picture was actually taken this spring on many a walks that Erin and I made down to Lake Michigan. The city has really done a lot to make that are as enjoyable as ever. From the lake train that runs 18 miles along the river to the number of parks to the cleanliness of everything.
It’s nice to see images such as this after the cold, windy winter we always seem to have.
This is a rare type of thistle that my grandma has growing in her garden. It reminds me of a prop to a movie set or something along those lines. The rich blues against the green background really make it stand out for me.
I just can’t get enough of the colors in this shot. The beautiful aquamarine blue against the dark red rust. Awesome. The dimpled texture of the anchor also draws me in.
This was taken earlier in the spring time while they were replacing all the boat anchors in one of the harbors in Lake Michigan. The original shot had the observatory in the background, however, it was too distracting and took away from the colors. With the number of anchors, and their relative height to each other, the picture really lended itself nicely to the 16×9 crop.
One of the best assignments I think I ever did was the depth of field assignment in Photo I. I’m still amazed that I was able to get this shot. The lighting was absolutely horrid, and as you can see for the stats below, my shutter speed was borderline on generating camera shake. This is actually the organ down in Erin’s parent’s basement.
I really like the way the lines work with this image. Some people, I image, aren’t going to like that only a small section of the photo is actually in the focal plane, and therefore in focus, but I think it adds to the image. My goal later is to explore more macro type photos, but for now, this will have to do.