OK, so I thought my photography needs some improvement. This PAD discipline should be fun, although I am not 100% sure I will be able to maintain a picture a day, but I will aim for at least several per week.
All feedback welcome, particularly constructive criticism.
Decided to try some flowers from the florist so I could control things more, but probably the best element to control was the wind, with still air indoors I could happily set some long exposures
Well I am not finding this PAD discipline easy, I haven't taken any photos today... I have spent some time though sorting through some other pictures and generally shuffling things around in some of my galleries here at pbase
I sat in some long grass in a park this afternoon waiting for any insects to land within photographic reach. Camera was fitted with my tamron 180mm macro lens plus an extension tube, and the new Nikon Macro Flash. Once an insect landed I tried to creep up on it without casting any shadow from the big lump of camera and at the same time planting the monopod in the ground at a suitable location. It was all a bit fiddly and I would almost always only get one shot at the fly because they would take off as soon as the flash went but I did have some success and managed to get a few shots. This fly in particular stayed still for three or four shots which meant I actually managed to get a usable focus. I still have a lot to learn with my macro experiments, and also a lot of respect for all those great macro photographers out there.
Tried to take the same sort of shot as yesterday in a different location. This time there were lots of yellow buttercups to provide a splash of colour and a very obliging bug who pulled several poses for me on the top of the grass seed head, shame that the grass seed head is a bit cluttered with other stalks of grass
Found this gold (plated) sculpture in a shop window and thought the reflections interesting. I had to fiddle the colours a bit to get it back to looking 'gold' - should have set the WB manually... It's also a pity that the shop window wasn't a bit cleaner.
