Topez & County Park

Hello everyone, first of all I'd like to apologize for the lack of post. It's not that I'm not shooting it's that when you combine work, full time student and fatherhood it makes for a busy life. Well I'm on a trial with Topez's new LensF/X. I sampled one of there blur settings with this old image of the bridge at Lancaster County Park.

Hope you enjoy

Nick

The Little Things, Hibiscus stem

One of the reasons why I like shooting flowers is that each flower is different in it's design when it's budding. This makes for numerous macro opportunities. This image I kept a real narrow depth-of-field, f-8, the only part I wanted sharp were the five red pollen dots. Since the blossom is just starting the best part is the pollen stem.

Enjoy

Nick

The Little Things, Aquilegia Blue-White

Here's another macro image from this weekend. Once a again it's a nice clean sharp image with no background distractions. A simple subject like this becomes spectacular with a clean background.

Enjoy

Nick

The Little Things, Anome

Saturday I was working some flora macro shooting. One of the keys that I keep in mind is having a non-destracting background. To acheive this all about controlling your depth of field. I did this by keeping my aperature at f-16. The background is blurred and while processing the lighting levels I darkend further enhancing the subject.

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Nick

Merry Christmas

Hello Everyone,

I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank you for all of your support.

Nick

The Little Things, African Violet

Hello everyone

As a photographer and in any business it's important to have goals. Sometimes the accomplishment can be monetary value

or a confidence booster. One of my goals for this coming year is that I want to increase my floral/macro collection. I came up with the name 'The Little Things,' to ensure the focus is on macro images. Here on this African Violet I used a small depth of field, low f-stop, to blur the background. Background control is very important with a close up shot like this, also I used a little Topez Buzz.

Hope you enjoy

Nick

Gone fishing

Hello everyone

Here's another image from the small mountain stream near Worlds End State Park. While capturing the whole falls and stream a fisherman aka my father in law came in to cast a couple of times for some native trout. This image is all about being in the right place at the right time. The hardest part was getting him to get into the shot.

Hope you enjoy

Nick