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Archive for August, 2009

Montbretia

2 August 2009 // Comments Off

I had an hour in the garden with the camera and noticed one of the Montbretia flowers looked good against the background of scrub:

Canon EOS 40D, EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM

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Pinhole Cottage

1 August 2009 // Comments Off

I’ve always enjoyed playing around with Holga and pinhole cameras. A while back I made my own pinhole using a T2 mount, baked bean can, Coke can and a washer. It was fun but the images weren’t what I wanted, so I’ve bought an pinhole adapter for the T2 mount from Pinhole Solutions, it has a working aperture of about f/180. This is a test photo of my cottage:

Canon EOS 40D, Pinhole

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Still Life – An Orange

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July’s theme in the Amateur Photographer forum monthly competition was ‘An Orange’. I really wanted to enter to maintain my 100% entry rate, but I was a long way out of my comfort zone trying to shoot a still life. In the end and right on the last minute, I decided on a low key shot. Shot on my desk, with my desk lamp as the light source, I used liveview with the camera tethered to my laptop. I think I quite enjoyed it despite the final product not being too inspiring.

Canon EOS 40D, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

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