Last night I read an interesting post by Dee Tutor on LinkedIn about Ghosting Techniques, and I thought one or two of you readers might like to make it an interesting project for next week! All you need to do is nip over and read Daria’s blog, find an old and particularly interesting looking graveyard, (now that we’re allowed to visit graveyards again) and have a go!
Try to shoot from the back of the headstones, – to avoid someone being offended that you’ve used their family grave in a photo. Continue reading Ghosting Techniques→
Out for my single daily permitted exercise period this evening. along with the Fujifilm X-T30, fitted with the 50mm Nikon manual focus f1.8 prime lens. On the walk this evening I’ve been looking at the hedges!
Raining outside the cocoon today, so I looked around for an indoors subject and settled on an ‘uplighter’ lampstand that I bought many years ago in B&Q. I fitted the Nikon MF 50mm lens onto the Fujifilm X-T30, – the full frame equivalence would be around 75mm. The aperture was set at f/8, to achieve pin-sharp focus on the pattern of the glass, using the camera’s focus-peaking; the shutter speed was 1/250th sec and the ISO was 800.
The lamp is set against a background of white louvre blinds, backlit by the natural light from outside, so the bokeh produced a simple white backdrop. The lamp is silver, the backdrop white, so I chose to use the camera’s ACROS film simulation mode.
I had to be at a funeral this morning, and of course, no matter where I go the camera goes too.
Later, in the cemetery, I noticed some wind chimes hanging from a tree. I just snapped… using the 300mm MF lens, F=300mm, f/4 @ 1/500th sec (the wind chimes were moving in the wind – as you’s expect) ISO200. Weird sepia effect added in post-capture processing, and over-saturated.
I’m running out of subjects! So I made a photograph of the trunk of two palm tress, just to show the texture and to illustrate the accuracy of the focus peaking on the Fujifilm X-T30:-
Bluebell macro! Back garden photography with the Fujifilm X-T30 and a Nikon MF300mm lens (Macro). I keep the shutter speed fairly high on these, – that lens is heavy and moves about a bit, so 1/640th sec for this shot. f/4, ISO800.
The lonely postbook. This postbox sits in the middle of the countryside, on Ballyknockan Road, between Ballygowan and …. um, nowhere at all? (It leads onto the road between Saintield and Carryduff)
It’s really difficult getting a home delivery from Asda during the Lockdown, unless you live in Ballybeen, when you just push the trolley a couple of miles up the road. Simples!
Up along the Tullyhubbert Road today, and there’s a pair of swans on the wee lake, very much in love too, judging by the pose they struck in this photo! Socially isolated too – no other birds on the lake today.
No walk today, so inside photography instead! Janette had these Jamjars sitting on the cooker hob, waiting to be filled with delicious homemade jam (Not for me of course!)
