Photography At Home

[aligreto]

I had some friends who, years ago, fashioned a kind of a cork board out of corks from their favorite wine bottles.  Somehow or another they wired it together and use it to hold various keys and key chains.   

PD

A good idea. I wonder would I end up photographing what was hanging from the board.....

[aligreto]

Belleek SeaHorse Table Flower Holder


There are only three "animals" in my Belleek collection. This is the second of them.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Go to my postage-stamp sized backyard, look up, zoom, and get this photo. I think this is what is called a "lollipop pine."

I couldn't fine a tree called that, but I did find this.  Is it the same?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_taeda

PD

[steve ridgway]

Quite possibly I've been misreading those little signs they put in parks, saying this tree is such-and-such... 

Nice. It looks like some sort of pine to me, complete with cones .

[aligreto]

Go to my postage-stamp sized backyard, look up, zoom, and get this photo. I think this is what is called a "lollipop pine."

Nice. I like that tree.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I'll be that the birds love it...so tall! 

[Todd]

The downside to attachments here is that they are size limited, which means resolution is limited.  The tarnish on this coin is far more detailed and vivid in the original as one can zoom in much more.  How bored must one be to take macro shots of coins and then re-catalog and re-size them later?

[aligreto]

The downside to attachments here is that they are size limited, which means resolution is limited.  The tarnish on this coin is far more detailed and vivid in the original as one can zoom in much more.  How bored must one be to take macro shots of coins and then re-catalog and re-size them later?

That is a good clean and well lit shot though which is what you want for such things.

[Todd]

That is a good clean and well lit shot though which is what you want for such things.

All credit goes to the sun.

[aligreto]

All credit goes to the sun.

You are either being very modest or you were very lucky with the arrangement of that lighting.

[Todd]

You are either being very modest or you were very lucky with the arrangement of that lighting.

For these types of shots, I rely on a south facing sliding glass door.  I have 2-3 hours a day of even, perfectly diffused light at my disposal in much of the spring and pretty much all summer.  I just plop an object on some type of stand (here a wooden box), frame, and shoot.  I shot about nine different coins this way at the same time.  The only thing I had to do was adjust the height of the tripod head.  Exposure is set off the coin face in each case, so the wood lightens or darkens with the metal used.  Things can get more intriguing with more reflective surfaces like glass.

[aligreto]

So, a little bit more to it than the sun. Good for you.

[Todd]

Went all the way to my back patio to snap this one.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Went all the way to my back patio to snap this one.

Good job Todd! 

[vandermolen]

A Canon EOS 800D aka Rebel T7i, plus a zoom lens with image stabilisation. The technology is great for those like me who use it hand held on full automatic. I've started using manual with the Moon at night though, all the black in the frame makes it massively overexposed. The daylight photo was handheld on full auto from the garden and the nighttime one out the window with manual control, monitoring and shutter release from my iPad.

What great photos. I do look at the Moon sometimes through my (children's) telescope.
You can see the craters quite clearly.

[vandermolen]

Went all the way to my back patio to snap this one.

Another fine photo.

[aligreto]

Another presumed loblolly pine in the back yard.

A nice shot. It gives a good idea of the scale of the tree.

[aligreto]

Went all the way to my back patio to snap this one.

If I may ask, what camera/lens did you use to take that shot?
When the image is enlarged the detail of the craters is well defined.

[aligreto]

I have a strong attachment to trees. If you really look at them, they are incredibly complex and beautiful. Different regions the country (and the world) have trees which are the same, and yet different. And there is a lot of history tied up in a tree, especially one that is in the wild and has endured harsh conditions in the course of its existence.

I empathise with your sentiments. Last year I visited an annexe of our National Botanic Gardens that specializes in growing and maintaining trees from all over the world. It was a fascinating day out.

[Todd]

If I may ask, what camera/lens did you use to take that shot?
When the image is enlarged the detail of the craters is well defined.

Pentax K3, 150-450.  I just got the lens last week.  Telephotography at that length (ie, 675 equivalent with DX cropping) is new for me, so it will take a while to get used to it.  Took this one last night.  Changed focus point.  Did some different things in Photoshop after the fact.