Thursday, July 18, 2019
More Moons - July '19
In the past couple of days the full moon has been amazing:
The image above is something of an experiment as it is a large jpeg as i want to see how the image looks when clicked on; give it a try and then the one above it and see what difference there is and what you think about them. If you are viewing this in a phone, you won't see any difference. Post a comment about what you see please — thanks.
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Experment
This blog, a Google enterprise, will handle many photo formats and i usually post in jpeg as i use those on other places on the net which only take jpegs. In working with photographs, i am usually working in dng, RAW or tiffs, image sizes much too large to use on this site. However, in working with this moon photograph, i noticed that when i created a jpeg from the tiff that the jpeg becomes pixelated in the very dark areas ... it may do the same in other images but is not noticed in light areas. So these two moon photographs are first a tiff and then a jpeg of the same image ... can you tell any difference? I'd love some feedback about whatever difference you might see.
Well, i just discovered i was incorrect and this blog will not allow tifs nor very large jpegs. Still, please click on the image which will make it large and see if in the lower right and left corners there is a breakdown of the black area.
This is a composit of two images as when photographing the moon, it is much too bright to get any surrounding clouds in the image so i photographed the clouds and let the moon turn white and then photo....blah, blah ... and here is the mood along with the wispy clouds that were there that night.
May Full Moon, May 5-19-19
Well, i just discovered i was incorrect and this blog will not allow tifs nor very large jpegs. Still, please click on the image which will make it large and see if in the lower right and left corners there is a breakdown of the black area.
This is a composit of two images as when photographing the moon, it is much too bright to get any surrounding clouds in the image so i photographed the clouds and let the moon turn white and then photo....blah, blah ... and here is the mood along with the wispy clouds that were there that night.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Botanical Garden
There is a small botanical garden here in Asheville that is located at the edge of UNCA campus ... i don't know if UNC has anything to do with it, ie experimenting with different varieties, etc., but the gardens are pretty nice. So i have gone there twice in the past week and am enjoying working with the Sony's macro lens along with using an extension tube which allows a larger image without getting any closer. Here are some of todays images and at this time i don't know the name of any of the flowers:
I am relatively happy with the results above. Part of what i want to do or learn to do is photography in such a way that there is greater depth of focus, ie. more of the flowers are in focus. It is a challenge in gardens where there is often movements from breezes, and gusty winds and the constant passage of people which adds to the plants movement.
The photographs below are from the day before and while not quite as sharp -there was considerable more wind then - i like some of the results very much especially with the ants:
I was fascinated with this plant and the toadstool like bloom that sat just above the leaves and i guess they had some kinda sweetness on the bloom as almost every one had an ant on it.
I believe the funny looking toadstools in the top image above is the forerunner for the open blooms on the bottom. In the bottom image you can see some of them in the background. I didn't see any there were in between the two stages you see here.
I plan on returning Monday when there are less people in the hopes that the above plants are still blooming and accessible for photographing.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Local park
About a 10 min walk from where we were staying is the community park. I like and often walk there but never given it much thought as some place to photograph. However, i went out with a niece who wanted to do some photography and came home with these photographs:
A beautiful park from this lens' view.
A beautiful park from this lens' view.
Night-blooming flowers
The yard across from where we were staying had fairly long grass for the first week or so and we walked past it a couple times a day as we walked to and from my sister's house and one evening i notices there were yellow flowers where there hadn't been any earlier in the day. This was about 6:45 in the evening:
Sadly, i didn't take any daytime flowers as there were none to be seen. Turns out they are Night-blooming Primroses and very pretty:
The purple wrinkly-looking surrounding flowery-stem is the bloom from the previous night as they only last one night. I had no idea ... the owner came and talk with us and didn't know anything about the plant and offered to let us dig some up and bring back with us but we decided not to. A day or two later she cut the grass but that didn't seem to brother the Primroses at all:
I don't know what time they fold away in the morning as i never got up and went out to look ... do you know when Night-blooming Primroses die in the morning?
Sadly, i didn't take any daytime flowers as there were none to be seen. Turns out they are Night-blooming Primroses and very pretty:
The purple wrinkly-looking surrounding flowery-stem is the bloom from the previous night as they only last one night. I had no idea ... the owner came and talk with us and didn't know anything about the plant and offered to let us dig some up and bring back with us but we decided not to. A day or two later she cut the grass but that didn't seem to brother the Primroses at all:
I don't know what time they fold away in the morning as i never got up and went out to look ... do you know when Night-blooming Primroses die in the morning?
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