Thursday, June 25, 2009

Steller's Jay



This Steller's Jay was photographed a couple weeks ago while we were camping up at Eagle Lake, just north of Susanville. We lured it in by tossing out some peanuts for it to come get. We took several photographs as we tossed a peanut out time and time again for this bird to come back for and by the time we were done there was 3 or 4 of them coming to get there free lunch.

Monday, June 1, 2009

WATER DROPS


Another blog I read had a post about photographing water drops and the pictures looked interesting so I thought I would give it a try. I had a container filled with water sitting on the kitchen counter then over it I hung a zip lock bag with water in it that I poked a small hole in to provide dripping water in a constant location. Next was to set the camera on the tripod and focus on the spot the drops were hitting and then take several shots trying to time it just right to get the drop impacting the water. I also had a flash set up just to the left pointed at a piece of foam core behind the container so it bounced the light back at the drops from behind. The blue look is from changing the in camera white balance to incandescent lighting. Then a little bit of typical post processing and some cropping to get the images above.