timsdd aka Tim's Digital Darkroom

Crops trying to come and snatch my drops!

Yet another version of water drops. This time I had to do the drops by hand, I tried a new bottle but it totally was not working! That’ll teach me for trying new things :-)

I know some of these are OOF, the 1st one for instance but I couldn’t help myself as my face is the BG!

here’s a near home run but it’s got FAIL. I wanted to show the drop creating a pocket in the water though on this and another one too.

I thought the lines in the water were wild!

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^ the one on the right looks like a melting Vader helmet…..never mind what the blue one below looks like!

This was an experiment that ended in a completely different manner from what I had intended.
The result is very close to what I had envisioned, the lights, colors, shapes, etc.

What I did not expect….DIRTY LENS! wow. I think it’s b/c I used a small aperture, the smallest and that’s why every nook, dust particle, and spot showed up! You know what, it’s the opposite, LARGE aperture, F/1.4….I am wondering if it’s a dirty lens for the imperfections in the lights themselves. Never mind me thinking out loud!

Clearly I am left with more questions than answers! Something that bears revisiting I can see already :-)

Christmas Lights, Canon 50 mm – F/1.4, depth of field, DOF,  shallow depth of field,  vivid colors, circles, out of focus, selective focus

[SAD] I shot these so long ago I can only vaguely recall as to what they are! [/SAD]

The trap I fell into this summer and really for most of the year is trying to be more productive in terms of monetizing my photography and short of that I didn’t want to get bogged down in the fun side of it, which is wrong! Then you just stop shooting altogether = a crime.

So like with everything underneath the sun and or moon, you need to find a good balance. Easier said than done but I am willing to try more better and harder :p

The last 2 are kind of vanilla in terms of post, I submitted them to istock and they were accepted :-)

2 lens macro, canon 50mm/1.4, textures, close-up photography, extreme macro, macro photography, reverse ring, Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens, Sigma EM-140 DG TTL Macro Ringlight Flash, specialized macro