Playing with my camera and macro lens, I just saw a great object to take some experimental photo’s off, the two little happy men. The above picture was taken with a Canon 5D, and a Canon 100mm f2.8 USM Macro lens.
Early morning on a Saturday I woke up to go to Mavericks Surf contest in Half Moon Bay. It was supposed to become a beautiful day with big waves rolling in on the beach. At around 7 we arrived at Half Moon Bay, just in time to get the sunrise over the bay. Check out [...]
Sometimes you whished you had checked the photograph before you ate the subject! In the case I’m going to describe you, it does not matter too much, as I can easily get more sushi for new photo’s. But if you don’t check your photo’s, you can be in for a surprise! Tonight I got a [...]
I tried to make a time lapse series of a burning Winnie The Pooh candle we had. However, I failed to set the lens on manual focus, so not all pictures are zoomed in at the same sharpness or focal length. The picture has been made with a Canon 5D, and a 100 mm Macro [...]
I just got some really nice action scripts for in my Photoshop to play around with. These action scripts make it really easy to manipulate pictures and give these an interesting effect. Here is an original picture of a flower I made with my Macro lens; With the impressionism action script the picture of the [...]
I recently got a new toy, a new Fisheye lens of the minimal 4.5mm! The pictures you can make are just amazing. You even have to be careful not to get your own feet into the shots, while you make the photo. I bought the Sigma 4.5mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens for Canon. Here are some [...]
After the Macro pictures of the flowers I posted a couple of weeks ago, I recently took new Macro pictures from some roses I bought for my wife when she returned from The Netherlands. I keep finding it difficult to get the whole subject sharp in the picture, but maybe that is the purpose of [...]
Today, just after a small shower, I took my camera to Dolores Park in San Francisco to make some Macro Photo’s of the fresh flowers in the park. I didn’t make that many, because there was quite some wind which made it difficult to focus on the moving flowers in the breeze. A couple of [...]