Day 192 (10 July 2012) Flowers and Bugs

One thing I like about doing yard work s that I get more than a drive-by look at my yard, and the flowers, plants, and nature that it contains.  As I was mowing after dinner tonight, I spotted some flowering plants that I had not seen/noticed before.  And while shooting one set, I noticed the beetle in the last photo.

Shooting at home is a great way to relax after a day at work, IMO.  Especially since I don’t have to drive anywhere, and I have plenty to shoot with my macro lens 🙂

60 mm, 1/10 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100, 60 mm macro lens (Looking Up)

60 mm, 1.6 sec, f/7.1, ISO 100, 60 mm macro lens (Purple Flower)

60 mm, 1/4 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 60 mm macro lens (Beetle)

Day 88 (28 March 2012) The Empty Bench

Driving to class tonight I took a different route and noticed a bench sitting across a pond from the road I was driving.  I made a point to stop and do a single 6 min exposure and hoped it turned out well.

I loaded Magic Lantern firmware onto an SD card today and wanted to try to use the bulb timer function (it makes it possible to set an exposure longer than 30 sec w/o an external timer or remote).  As I’m still figuring out this new suite of tools, I didn’t realize that long exposure noise reduction was turned off, so the photo is slightly noisy.

I also took a couple minutes between work and class and shot a few of the flowers sprouting up in my front garden and got one that I think is nice.  I’ll shoot these again under better light w/ more time; I want to get it right 🙂

23 mm, 6 min, f/8.0, ISO 100, 18-55mm kit lens (Bench By The Pond)

60 mm, 1/40 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100, 60mm macro lens (Purple Flower)