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Postcard

Canon EOS 5D Mark II ISO100 1/60 sec f11.0 18mm

Colors and Dreams

Canon 5D 100mm f8 1/400s ISO400

Spring

Canon 5D 50mm f2.8 1/1600s ISO100

Rant: I normally reduce my photos to size 1500 on the long edge for blog postings. Honestly, I do not see any difference between my old and new camera in terms of quality at this resolution. I also realise, by now and a bit late, that I do not pixel peep and I do not need 20m+ pixels for good prints.

May be I should return my camera. Unfortunately I sold my old 5D already at a steep discount to a good friend!

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Less is always more. Design is about how it works, and how to present the idea to your audience in the simplest way possible.

Personally I like my previous one better. What do you think?

Canon 5D Mark II 100mm macro 1/160s f8 ISO800

Eternal Fire

Here flammable gas flows eternally from underground, ever lighting the darkness and guiding the visitors.  

Things changed so much personally with life, but I continue to move on.  

Kending, Taiwan 2006

Canon P&S at 1.3s

Autumn Leaves

Canon 5D 50mm 1/320s f8 ISO200

Autumn Leaves

Canon 5D 50mm f8 1/100s ISO100

Leaves

Canon 5D 50mm f7.1 1/100s ISO200

I realise how colorful leaves can be. We have yellow, orange, red, pink, grey, light green, dark green, purple...

For more, click nature.

Tree and new leaves

Canon 5D ISO400 1/125s f5.6 50mm

I believe this was my second or third attempt in making a picture of this tree. I wanted to show the whole tree with its leaves, in their special pale new green colors. I made probably three to four attempts to develop this in Lightroom before finally landing on this color revision.

Another difficulty is controlling the depth of field. The tree, due to its round dimensions, needs a larger field to be in focus, and it's tremendously difficult to determine if a leave is in focus on the camera screen under sunlight.

Leaves

Canon 5D ISO400 1/200s f5.6 50mm

Leaves 

Canon 5D 50mm f5.6 1/125s ISO400    

Would benefit from darker blacks.   Try it out yourself...      

Leaves

Canon 5D 50mm f5.6 1/125s ISO400

DOF and wind must be considered. When the sunlight passes through the leaves, it creates beautiful colors and patterns. Preferably a matching color background next time, such as a vivid blue sky. Remember to check the histogram for exposure errors, such as clipping.    

This picture would benefit tremendously from a few points of saturation boost.  In fact, download the file and try it out yourself.  Enhance the yellow and green colors.  

Rhododendron II

Canon 5D 50mm f8 1/50s ISO200

Rhododendron

A terrible rendering, resulting from my processing. I did not have a raw converter in hand, and just exported the underexposed jpg file from Picasa. (apparently the latter isn't a good raw processor) I then adjusted the exposure, saturation and sharpening using Adobo Photoshop Express. Disastrous result, especially in lack of details in shadows.

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Didn't think of composition at all when taking this picture.  The second try was even worse, in effect I made a mock of national flag of Japan.  However, I could never stop to appreciate nature's beauty in spring time.  

Autumn Colors

Canon 5D 50mm ISO800 1/60s f5

Water Lily

Rose

Do you like this better, or the black and white one? I like the color version, because my black and white conversion skill is not up to speed.

Advances in digital darkroom is simply dazzling (click "portfolio"). Where is the line between a fine art picture, a photograph, and a fake one?

Flower of July

Controlling depth of field is vastly important for close range and macro photography. Compare this with the picture I posted yesterday and immediately you can see the difference.

I like the last variation better, with a more balancing composition.