Spring has sprung
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in Nature, Macro | 1 Comment »It took a while, but spring is officially here. The dogwoods have bloomed along with the azaleas. I spent a few minutes outside with the 28-70/2.8 and an extension ring. The last shot in the gallery was without ...
Blackberry 8830 in macro
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Things, Macro | 1 Comment »I was tooling around with some extension tubes a friend let me borrow and got a few shots of my Blackberry 8830. I'll have to see what they are like in spring when some flowers start blooming and some insects ...
Along came a spider
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 Posted in Macro | 1 Comment »This may freak a few people out. Shot in macro mode with the 35-70mm 2.8 D. This was done back in the spring but thought it looked interesting in silhouette.
Flowers via telephoto
Sunday, June 10th, 2007 Posted in Nature, Macro | No Comments »Here are a couple of flower shots with the 70-300mm VR. All handheld with VR on. I'm still very happy with this lens...especially outdoors. The only post processing I did on these was a bit of sharpening and saturation ...
35-70 2.8 in Macro
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 Posted in People, Macro | No Comments »I know it isn't the best macro lens in the world, but I play around with my 35-70mm 2.8 Nikkor in macro mode quite a bit. It gives me sharp and colorful results. The only knock is that it is ...
Chess
Saturday, December 9th, 2006 Posted in Things, Macro | No Comments »Whenever I try out a new lens, I usually take a few shots of a chess set I have to see how sharp the lens is and just to get the feeling of how to handle it best. When I ...