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Photo A Day 183: First day of the second half

OmniLabs — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:38:32 +0000

So, I always enjoy blogging but I don’t generally have much to say. About 6 months ago I started taking 1 photo each day. The goal is to make it for a full year and I have made it thus far. Good Days, bad days, and everything in between have been recorded. I figured that this is about as interesting as I am going to get with my blog. So I am going to try to post up every picture here with a little explanation to have some context one day. Here is today’s:

This week’s theme is drops of water. I managed to get some decent sunrise pictures but they were formulaic. Instead, I sprayed down a plant and took a nice macro shot on a tripod to get really clear droplets. Worked out surprisingly well.

Stopping Time

OmniLabs — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:01:45 +0000

Since the first night I got my camera I started taking pictures of water from the faucet. I have seen so many completely awesome shots. It is amazing to see the surroundings through the drop of water. Above was one specific drop using the macro lens I have. Even though I have spent more time on drops of water than any other area of photos. I have no idea why but this is my bane. Thanks to the digital-photography-school.com blog someone pointed out that flash is perfect for stopping time. These are my tries at that. Below is where I decided to highten my odds of getting a good few drops.

Wild Flower and Water Drops

OmniLabs — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:49 +0000

I have learned an axiom of photographing water droplets. It is WAY easier to get them in focus when they are not falling through the air. This is proof of that.

Weird Desert Flower

OmniLabs — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:26:16 +0000

So while wondering through a desert garden I saw a slew of lovely flowers. One of them was just plain wierd so I snapped a shot quick to document the bizaro flower.

A stone army

OmniLabs — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:44:39 +0000

I personally love chess and as with most things I love almost 100% of the population is better at it than I am. Last weekend I saw a stone chess set which was nicely set up. I pulled out my macro lens and snapped a few shots. It is always dramatic to see a chess set up close thinking of the hours of play, strategy, and general loss of cool points in high school. It is a smart mans game but as I show anyone can lose horribly to people vastly less experienced.

The Problem With Macro

OmniLabs — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:41:39 +0000

Over the past several weeks I have been enjoying my macro lens. It has 1 to 1 magnification which means I can take big freaking pictures of small freaking stuff. Overall, this works about how you would imagine. 1. Find something to take a picture of. 2. Get reeeaaaalllly close 3. take your picture and marvel at how cool you are. However, I have discovered that this takes a bit of time. So, when the subject of your photo is racing across the floor to get away from you and your big shoe the process can be challenging. The lady bug above was not thrilled and inside so it took some post processing to get her clear enough.