Dandelion Clock
“A children’s amusement in which the number of puffs needed to blow the filamentous achenes from a dandelion is supposed to tell the time.”
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Photographed under studio lighting with the Fujifilm X-T5 fitted with a 50mm Nikon lens, F=50mm, f/11 @ 1/125th sec on ISO400. RAW image processed in Photoshop.
The River Crossing’ – a sculpture by Jane Hart, manufactured as part of a set by Danbury Mint in the 1990’s.
Photo made under studio flash, – two reflector umbrellas, placed directly above the item. Camera was a Nikon Df, with a Tampon 28-70mm f/2.8 portrait lens. Because this lens has a shallow depth of field, (it’s designed to be a portrait lens). I selected a tiny aperture, just f/22 with a focal length of 70mm, to produce sharpness throughout the image. For reciprocity, that required an ISO of 1600.
The shutter speed under studio flash is of little importance, for the flash duration more or less determines the exposure time,
(…so long as it’s under 1/250th sec – or the shutter will be faster than the flash and will obscure part of the image, and to slow a shutter speed will admit ambient light, which can be useful when using flash outdoors, or for fill-in, but not usually in studio, where the flash would usually be the only source of light).
So shutter speed for this image was 1/125th sec.
Hornby’s ‘SMOKEY JOE’ locomotive. Introduced by Hornby in 1983, this OO Gauge model represents the small shunters in the The Caledonian Railway 264 class. They were 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives designed by Dugald Drummond and built by Neilson and Company in 1885, later built at St Rollox Works, up to 1902. I’ve owned this one for a long number of years, probably around 30 years or more.
I photographed it under studio lighting (2 Elinchrom heads) with the Fujifilm X-T3. Post-capture RAW conversion in Photoshop.
Talk about the Ugly Duckling? Here’s the prototype, surely the ugliest egg in the world!
I photographed the egg over a saucepan, with the Fujifilm X-T4, and a Fujinon 16-80mm f/4 lens.
F=80mm, f/8, Q 1/30th sec, on ISO 3200.
Easy enough for me, I chose f/8 to get a decent depth of field for the close-up, but because the light was low at the time, I chose a slow shutter speed, and a high ISO. Neither of these extremes are a problem to the X-T4, – its in-body image stabilisation, lens stabilisation, and fantastic sensor make slow shutter speeds and high ISO’s as easy as boiling an egg.
Not so easy for the hen though! Passing this ugly spheroid must have brought screams of pain. The egg, however, was delicious!
Sometimes its good to do something that’s out of your comfort zone, – like STILL LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY. It’s not something I do very often, but today I chanced upon an autumn leaf, curled up and lying in a dusty corner of an outhouse, and I picked it up and brought it home, with the intention of making an image of one single brown leaf.
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