Photography

[Tpt life]

They are shy at times. The best experiences are when you are out and they come to you. 

[wtnhighlander]

One of those bad boys nearly slammed the side of my truck today, diving in for a road-side meal. They are much larger than they appear when perched on the powerlines!

[curlyoak]

Lettuce and cilantro. 

[JohnG]

21 hours ago, Tpt life said:

They are shy at times. The best experiences are when you are out and they come to you. 

Awesome pics!

Red Shouldered Hawk from NC a couple months ago. 2nd is way OOF but I like how it shows their size with wings and tail all spread out.

[JohnG]

And an Eastern Bluebird from the same day

[Gary Beasley]

Yellow rose from the garden. I was playing with a new to me roll film holder that frames a 6x9 format.

[wtnhighlander]

Wow, Gary. That is CRISP!

Did you shoot in the dark, or use a black backdrop? The contrast is perfect.

[Gary Beasley]

I placed the flower at my basement door and turned the interior lights out, lit by sunlight diffused by neighboring trees. Exposure was 8 seconds at f/64. Film was Fuji Acros developed in Rodinal 1:50. Done with my 4x5 Ebony and 150mm Caltar lens.

[Tpt life]

I have been playing around with extension tube macro. The struggle for me is deciding what should be in focus with such and incredibly shallow depth of field. 

[Gary Beasley]

You might want to do a little research on focus stacking. Theres free programs you can download that will do the focus merge. Photoshop CS6 also has it integral. With a little care you can get stunning looking depth of field on macro shots..

[wtnhighlander]

I sort of like the shallow depth of field look. I wish I was better at such effects, especially when attempting to photograph my work.

[Gary Beasley]

The main aim is to get the right amount of depth for the shot. Stopping down more will eventually result in diffraction problems and you will lose the sharpness you are fighting for. If you can use your lens at a middle aperture like f/8 and get the depth you need the image will be sharper. Ive seen this technique done with landscapes too.
This is a digital thing and extremely hard to do with film.

[Chestnut]

Diffraction is something to consider but also consider, out of focus clarity is often a worse offender than diffraction. When in doubt go for a higher f stop.Though as always this depends on a LOT of factors. Sensor/film size, lens, focal length, focus distance, subject.

Shooting a portriat with a 300mm f2.8 is far different than a landscape with a 20mm f1.8

[Gary Beasley]

Heres one I shot using 8 frames stacked, you still see a shallow depth of field but its way more than you would normally get.

[Tpt life]

Cicada?

[Gary Beasley]

4 hours ago, Tpt life said:

Cicada?

Yep. Found a dead one. Perfect opportunity.

[wtnhighlander]

I was wondering how you managed to shoot 8 identical frames!  

[Gary Beasley]

Theres a platform jig you can buy for your camera pretty cheap you can mount on your tripod and put your camera on it that will allow you to move the camera precise distances between each shot. When you are focusing that close its better to set your focus distance on the lens then move the camera back and forth to get it focused where you want it. As you shoot you shift the camera a tiny amount each time to get overlap of the sharp areas. I got one like this.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184018340507

[wtnhighlander]

That sounds like a neat DIY project, too. I want to build a similar jig to hold mt phone on a tripod so that the lens is precisely on the vertical axis when the head is rotated. For making clean 360 panoramas.

[Gary Beasley]

A good tripod with a panhead will do that for you. Only thing to add would be a bubble level so the panoramas arent wonkey.

[Gary Beasley]

Speaking of hardware....

[Tpt life]

Lots of cross hatching. Looks like a gutter spike. 

[Gary Beasley]

I was wondering about that. Previous owner of the house left it on the tree.

[Chip Sawdust]

This isn’t great photography but it shows some of the 737 Max airplanes stored at the Moses Lake, WA airport. I was told there are nearly 300 of them on the field. This was at the end of February. 
 

[Chet]

Just an iPhone picture.  I really like this tree, a Live Oak which are protected here in California.  This is at a small, real hilly county park close to my house that I go to about 4 or 5 days a week to get a good work out hiking.  The trunk is over 6 feet across.  Interesting though, in the back ground on the other side of the tree line is a large housing track, 50 yards to the left is a large  solar farm and behind me on the other side of a small hill is a local Junior Colllege.