Thursday, November 26, 2020

Slide Scanning Project 1: Cambridge

My winter project is to scan any slides that have historical or pictorial interest (and to recycle the rest) - no small task as there are thousands of them over the years. Here are a few from yesterday's batch. First the River Cam when it froze over in 1997 and the view in July 1997. The vertical shots are of an earlier cold winter in 1991 and my earliest Cambridge view - probably 1962 when I first visited Cambridge. Robert Sayle became John Lewis in 2007. The next four shots are from 1999 and the last two certainly the last century(!) as the trees lining  Parkside are still very small.


Monday, November 23, 2020

Focus Stacking Fungi - Comparison with Wide Angle etc

Apologies for more fungi but they are very useful for trying out focus stacking as they do not move! I used a 50mm macro and in-camera focus bracketing for taking the stack (25 or 35 shots), processed with Zerene stacker (not tidied up at processing stage so some imperfections evident on the final image), 
Mostly I used the traditional F2.8 for the images but image 2 is F8 giving a bit more background details, images 6 and 8 are wide angles (12mm) to compare the results and the final image demonstrates that, for some subjects, a much large stack number is required at the macro level.

Sunday, November 22, 2020

12 mm Lens with Close up Filter for Fungi

 Still on my quest for a wide-angle close-up solution, I have managed to attach a close-up filter to my Zeiss 12mm lens and tried some fungi photography in our local Hardwick wood today. Very pleased with the results both wide open at F2.8 (numbers 1 and 8) and other apertures F7.1 (6), F9 (3) F14 (2,4,5,9-11), F16(7)  F22 (12). 



Saturday, November 21, 2020

IR Cambridge Botanic Gardens

Images from yesterday's visit to the Botanic Gardens. All taken on converted Canon 1D MkII at f2.8.

Friday, November 20, 2020

IR Images, Fen Causeway Area of Cambridge

Some images taken with my Canon IR-converted camera on a walk back to Grange Road from the Botanic Gardens. A dull day but this seems to suit this camera giving very muted colours. Adjusted only in lightroom (no profile used).