One good thing about dragon flies is that they will stay at the same flower and more or less the same position for minutes on end.
This makes them arguably the most cooperative models anywhere in the animal kingdom.
This was shot at around noon in bright sunshine with a little fill flash. The background is actually an out of focus road and the flower is a daylilly.
More about dragonflies:
Categories: Photography Tags: closeup, dragon fly, flower, insect, macro, nectar
One of a set of photos taken at around 6 PM . The sun was out but a bit of flash was needed. The camera was hand held but the flash was enough to keep the image reasonably sharp.
I use a Nikon d40x dSLR camera with a Nikon SB-600 Speedlight Flash. On this occasion I left the flash on camera.
I love the camera – wonderful piece of kit but have a love/hate relationship with the SB600. when it works well it produces great images but it lacks consistency and predictability. Sometimes it will work great for a whole shoot, other times I’ll have to shoot 3 frames to get a useable one. I’ve tried it in auto and manual mode and with every possible camera setting and still no predictability. Don’t get me wrong it is very useable and Adobe Lightroom does great work on less than ideally exposed shots but it is a bit of a pain.
If anyoner is reading this and thinking of picking up a second hand SB600 don’t – pop for an SB800 it is a much more consistant strobe, more powerful and has much more functionality regarding remote strobing.
Categories: Photography Tags: honey bee, lavender, nectar, nikon, sb600, speedlight, worker bee
This is one of a set of photographs shot from the cover of our porch into the garden during a thunderstorm. lots of flowers and foliage with rain drops.
Flash was used, with a diffusing dome which not only illuminated the shot but also allowed for any movement to be frozen giving a sharpness to the water droplets that is hard to achieve without flash – at least at shutter speeds of under 1/500 of a second.
These were photographed using a Nikon D40x with an equivalent focal length of 300mm and an Nikon SB600 flash with diffuser dome, camera mounted.
post processing was done in Adobe Lightroom.
One of a series of photographs of an egg that can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artbystevejohnson/sets/72157624273871656/
One of these images will serve as the iconic image for http://minimalistcook.com , probably the one where the egg is largest and where the background is abstract and pastel as that fits the minamalism them the best.
These ones with the running water I shot for fun.Not sure what if any use they would be to anybody.
Categories: Photography Tags: birth, complete, egg, food, minimalism, minimalist woman, water, water drops, whole
Categories: Photography Tags: bench, dark blue sky, lifeguard, wooden structure
