Photography

[Tpt life]

Had a little fun trying focus stacking. This started as two images that i never intended to blend. 

[Gary Beasley]

Good job, just enough to make it look real.

[curlyoak]

The name of this orchid is Brassia Edva Loo. A hybrid. The flower is 15 inches top to bottom. Known as the spider orchid.

[RichardA]

How did anyone ever think of calling it that ?

[curlyoak]

17 hours ago, RichardA said:

How did anyone ever think of calling it that ?

Brassia came from people that are called taxonomists. The rest is up to the hybridizer. They are entitled. Taxonomists are mostly not liked. You finally learn and remember a name then they change it.

[JohnG]

Northern Cardinal

 

 

edit: ugh... compression

[Tpt life]

The migrants are returning. 

[Coop]

Are the second two pics Orioles? We don’t have them this far south. Wish we did. Beautiful bird and great pics. 

[treeslayer]

Orioles are one of my favorite birds, they make an unusual nest, don’t see Orioles much or my other favorite the Meadow Lark, haven’t seen one of them in years 

[Tpt life]

29 minutes ago, Coop said:

Are the second two pics Orioles? We don’t have them this far south. Wish we did. Beautiful bird and great pics. 

Baltimore species. We also have Orchard here, and thank you. 

[Coop]

We use to get an abundance of Robins that would move thru on their way to somewhere. No longer though. We were in Navasota, 100 miles west of Houston visiting friends about 3 months ago and they were everywhere for one day only, then moved on. Reminds me of an ex employee. 

[Tpt life]

Many of the Robins, that often leave here mid-winter, stuck around. This was a really mild winter here. 

[RichardA]

We had robins all 20 days of winter.

[Gary Beasley]

Im learning to do an archaic photographic process call Van Dyke printing. I ordered a few chemicals I lacked, mixed up the sensitizing solution and painted it on to a sheet of all cotton paper and let it dry. Earlier today I resized the shell of a bank of black lights Id built for alternative processes like this so I could hang it under the work table of my enlarger and put a shelf right under it to put the contact frame under the lights. First I did a test strip with a calibrated step scaled to determine exposure time, next one I put the scale on one end of the paper and a negative I shot at Sloss Furnaces in Alabama, an empty corner of the pump room.

[Coop]

That is cool Gary! 

[wtnhighlander]

Very cool process! I'd call that quite an interesting subject for the application, also.

[Chestnut]

That's really cool.

[Gary Beasley]

Heres the black light bank I was working on. Thats my woodworking contribution to the subject.

[wtnhighlander]

So, this process develops under UV, not visible light?

[Gary Beasley]

Its mostly uv sensitive. Its also whats called a print out process in that the image forms during the exposure. In this case processing is basically washing the remaining sensitizer out in running water then putting it in a weak fixer bath where it darkens some. During drying it gets even darker.

[GetM]

Aweome inspiring thread

[Immortan D]

Without anything better to do, I grabbed my 17 years old Sony DSC-F828 and started shooting boring objects around the house. My goal was to get the "perfect" pict right out of the camera, without any post-processing whatsoever. Here are a few examples:

[Coop]

Daniel, I hope being cooped up ends quickly in your neck of the woods. Just kidding as those are cool. 

[Gary Beasley]

The next step is to play with the lighting, you have some interesting subjects. Really like the glass jug.

[Immortan D]

Foggy night, a view from my apartment: