Texture
Byron-
This wall has texture, especially in the morning and afternoon. When sitting in the hot tub in the mid-afternoon I've noticed the shadows that creep across. What I find interesting is the shadow of the bush is in focus. The shadow of the palm frond is out of focus. Depth of field is a naturally occurring phenomenon. This photo accomplishes 2 things. It fulfills the requirement for this week and it gave me an excuse to go to the pool and take some pictures (usually frowned upon!) of this shadow show.
Darin-
The texture of water.
This is a water feature at the U.S. District Court at the corner of 1st and Hill in downtown Los Angeles. Between all the smooth, round rocks poking through the surface, you can see Los Angeles City Hall.
This is a water feature at the U.S. District Court at the corner of 1st and Hill in downtown Los Angeles. Between all the smooth, round rocks poking through the surface, you can see Los Angeles City Hall.
Kevin-
There are so many ways to define texture, and it can be measured on so many scales. The texture of waves on an ocean, or the texture of mountains on a planet. The barely visible texture of a single hair, that can only be seen with the aid of a microscope, or a repeatable texture of woven fabric, or sandpaper, or...
I chose to create a non-repeatable texture, crumpling up a large sheet of heavy aluminum foil. Then I chose to light it with three filtered Nikon SB-5000 flash units, each with a different colored gel (red, blue and green), and each striking from a different angle.
The result? A texture, a graphic, a beautiful chaos.
Nikon Z7 body, mounted on a Manfrotto tripod with an Acratech ballhead, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens on a Nikon FTZ adapter, ISO 64, f/11 at 1/200th of a second (flash sync).
I chose to create a non-repeatable texture, crumpling up a large sheet of heavy aluminum foil. Then I chose to light it with three filtered Nikon SB-5000 flash units, each with a different colored gel (red, blue and green), and each striking from a different angle.
The result? A texture, a graphic, a beautiful chaos.
Nikon Z7 body, mounted on a Manfrotto tripod with an Acratech ballhead, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens on a Nikon FTZ adapter, ISO 64, f/11 at 1/200th of a second (flash sync).
Paul-
It took me almost as long to find the binomial nomenclature for this specific species of coral (which appears here in skeletal form, of course) as it did to shoot it. There are a remarkable number of types of coral; and the differences between some are very subtle. I knew all of you would clamoring to know which species these two samples belong to—personally, I’m not curious about anything—so here it is: Fungia scutaria.
If you feel uneasy using these words in front of women, clergy, or small children, you’ll be comforted to know they are commonly called stony coral, mushroom coral, or razor coral. These fellows—a very long time gone from their home on a reef somewhere in Indo-Pacific—have a rough; gritty, blade-like feel.
I had hoped to display this a little more successfully with a high key shot, but I didn’t like the results. Plan “B” was for me to show, even in skeletal form*, how elegant and graceful scutaria is…in design and appearance.
Finally this… Fungia (the genus this coral belongs to) and I have some startling similarities: We are both free-living as an adult; we can move; climb up slopes by inflating and deflating our tissues; even right ourselves if accidentally overturned. That said, their social life is probably better.
Shoot Out at the Coral, OK? Nikon D5200; Nikkor 18-55mm focused at 30mm and fitted with a 12mm extension tube; pattern metered; auto-focus points dropped from 39 to 21; ISO 640; 1/10 sec. at f/20; -2/3. EV. The coral are sitting on a light table, and the camera is mounted on a copystand.
* Not me. The coral.
If you feel uneasy using these words in front of women, clergy, or small children, you’ll be comforted to know they are commonly called stony coral, mushroom coral, or razor coral. These fellows—a very long time gone from their home on a reef somewhere in Indo-Pacific—have a rough; gritty, blade-like feel.
I had hoped to display this a little more successfully with a high key shot, but I didn’t like the results. Plan “B” was for me to show, even in skeletal form*, how elegant and graceful scutaria is…in design and appearance.
Finally this… Fungia (the genus this coral belongs to) and I have some startling similarities: We are both free-living as an adult; we can move; climb up slopes by inflating and deflating our tissues; even right ourselves if accidentally overturned. That said, their social life is probably better.
Shoot Out at the Coral, OK? Nikon D5200; Nikkor 18-55mm focused at 30mm and fitted with a 12mm extension tube; pattern metered; auto-focus points dropped from 39 to 21; ISO 640; 1/10 sec. at f/20; -2/3. EV. The coral are sitting on a light table, and the camera is mounted on a copystand.
* Not me. The coral.
Jerry-
I managed to find all sorts of fun things with interesting textures and have picked this leaf on the snow as my favorite.
Camera was my Sony 5100 with 16-50mm lens zoomed to 50mm. Exposure was f16 @ 1/640, ISO 400.
Camera was my Sony 5100 with 16-50mm lens zoomed to 50mm. Exposure was f16 @ 1/640, ISO 400.
Don-
I worked on this pine cone yesterday. 300 pictures
using a macro focus rail I ordered. Photoshop
couldn't seem to handle the workload well. So
here is the top...70 pictures 1mm apart then scrunched to one.
Focal was a 105mm Macro lens.
Exposure was 1/200; f/9; ISO 100; manual mode and two
studio lights at 1/16 power.
using a macro focus rail I ordered. Photoshop
couldn't seem to handle the workload well. So
here is the top...70 pictures 1mm apart then scrunched to one.
Focal was a 105mm Macro lens.
Exposure was 1/200; f/9; ISO 100; manual mode and two
studio lights at 1/16 power.