With only a few millimeters thick depth of focus, constant movement in the environment, heavy equipment and lack of dedicated macro lens, close-up photography is quite probably the most difficult kind I’ve ever tried. Still, although there are incredible things to explore down there, the biggest challenge of this shoot was simple – rather than technical issues, it was my own ignorance of tiny things. Every photographer has an inner eye that helps him or her choose the scene and compose properly, a sort of sixth sense that tells them what is worthy of being photographed, how to do it and what to expect. Well… with macro, I felt mine simply didn’t work as I’m used to. This post is dedicated to my mom, a very passionate gardener. :-)
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Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago at 17:49. Add a comment
This one is for the kids mostly, although there is one photo here that I especially like: The squirrel with the old woman’s hand. She was a real deranged hermit :-), the squirrels had some strange affinity towards her. Kulida will kindly forgive that there are only two squirrels, yet several photos. :-P All shot in St. James park.
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Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 15:47. 6 comments
This post is long overdue, because I just couldn’t get myself to process the photos. As for the post-processing, I know these look unreal. But that’s not my fault! There is no HDR applied, and color is not edited at all! Seriously, I have deliberately left all the Hue, Saturation, Luminosity, Vibrance, and other similar sliders alone. The colors are exactly as shot, and much less crazy than they were in reality. On the second thought, perhaps I should have made them more vibrant. :-)
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Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 21:31. 3 comments
Although not technically a member of the odobenidae, I believe that this speciman has much in common with the marine mammal. Thus, although Janka likes to call him Blesk (Flash), I usually call him Mrož (Walrus). There’s just something about his personality and phonic demonstration that makes me sure he should have been born somewhere in the Arctics with giant tusks. :-D
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Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 17:50. 5 comments
Just a few snapshots from my balcony one fine day…
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Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 13:33. Add a comment
Quite a few weeks ago we spent a lovely Sunday in Vienna with the kids, and one of the main Sehenswürdigkeiten on the program was Haus des Meeres, an equivalent of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, mentioned in a post few months ago. These photos are slightly worse than the ones from over there, as the light conditions were much, much less photography-friendly. Still, I was not as idiotic as some people who were using direct flash to photograph bats. At that moment I felt slightly sorry for not bringing my external flash, as I really felt like discharging a formidable blast at 100 % of power right into their Ungesicht.
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Posted 1 year, 11 months ago at 15:20. 2 comments
This post is overdue for a month or so, but finally here, as promised.
One of Chicago’s major attractions is the Shedd Aquarium, reportedly the largest indoor aquarium in the world, with more than 8000 exotic animals, several special exhibits, and, of course, Guinness. ;-)
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Posted 2 years, 1 month ago at 23:57. 4 comments
Snow is most certainly the photographer’s good friend. Especially when it’s fresh and forming pretty patterns, it’s a great pleasure to just observe it wandering through the woods. Which is, by itself, quite a powerful experience, especially after having lived in the jungle of concrete, that is Chicago, for quite some time. » » Read more of “Let it snow…” inside » »
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago at 14:28. 4 comments
For the time being, me and my Canon are an inseparable couple. We are fond of each other very much. I go out with her regularly, touch her body everywhere, and by now know fairly well where her controls are. No need to worry, though, I didn’t get married. However, after several months of deciding and choosing, I finally ordered a digital SLR camera.
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Posted 2 years, 5 months ago at 23:07. 7 comments
