I know it is Seattle and I know I should not complain, but the rain gets to me. Especially this weekend again. It either looked like it would rain every second, but did not, or it looked like it would get nice and sunny and then rained ...
Was hard to find some time to go out and shoot pictures. So I spend some time inside to shoot some pictures of water drops of all things ...
The setup was quite simple:
Finally posted some pictures from snoqualmie about 3 weeks ago. I visited the falls and the steam engine park with one of the most gifted photographers I ever met. Unfortunately for the falls it was just the wrong time of the day, so sorry for the blown out pictures and blown out contrast ...
The steam engine park I really enjoyed. It is great shooting old rusty things :)
Last night I finally got a chance to go up to Queen Anne's Kerry Park. It is a scenic vantage point with an amazing view of Seattle downtown and the Sound. I was planning on taing a few pictures of the Skyline at sundown. The moment I arrived there I was caught by the spell this place put on me. I must have just stood there and enjoyed the beautiful view for 30 minutes, not realizing how the place filled up and all the great picture spots were occupied ... well ok, I still found an OK place I (...)
Well it didn't take long till I had to have a macro lens after my Butterfly House experience ... Still I was not really prepared to pay the big bugs on a Nikkor MICRO 105 f/2.8 VR so I first looked into 3rd party lenses, but in the end came back to Nikkor. I just love the VR option. Yes, most Macro work probably is shot with a tripod anyhow, but still I love the possibility to shoot a little critter or flower during a hike with light gear and no tripod around.
Taken this into account there (...)
Okay, I guess most of us know what DOF is and till today I was sure I would also know how to influence it. Up till today I thought there were 3 factors:
Thanks to Simon Stafford and this great explanation I learned that in fact the focal length has nothing to do with the DOF! It may seem like it has as it (...)
Well I guess it happens to most of us that we want a lens but can not quite afford it or do not want to spend all budget on a special lens we may only need for a certain occasion. I wish money would not be a restriction but in reality it is. So before I went to the Seattle Butterfly House, I went to a local camera store called Glazer's Camera and for the first time ever rented (...)
This Saturday I finally visited the Seattle's Tropical Butterfly House. It is part of the general exhibits of the Pacific Science Center. The butterfly exhhibit is about 4000 sq ft and features a nursery, several feeding stations, two small ponds and beautiful tropical plants and flowers. The 85F and the ~80% humidity take some toll on you, but in 3h I managed to get a good 500+ exposures.
Out (...)