I know I said I didn’t think I’d have a lot of use for a fish eye lens. Well, turns out, a fish eye lens makes selfie’s REALLY interesting. Here I am embracing my inner lumberjack.
Okay, I’m done. The snow can go away now.
Tag: photography
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The last few days have been a lot of big landscape and sky shots of the snowstorm. Today lets bring it down to a smaller scaleThis is a view of snow trapped between the needles of a pine tree. I took this shot using the macro lens from Ztylus then cropped it to square using Snapseed.
Only one more snow picture tomorrow, then I’ll move on, I promise.
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The day after the snow storm was a bright, beautiful day. The snow still on the trees contrasting with the blue sky was pretty spectacular. I took this with ProCam and it is untouched by post-processing.
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This was the night of the snow storm, after it had all ended. We have some amazingly tall trees in our condo complex, and as I was standing at the top of our driveway, the lights from the next sets of buildings over, framed by the trees heavy with snow, struck me as a great picture. The sun had set and the last of the light in the west was making the evening sky a deep blue.I wish is was better at capturing night photos with my iPhone. It’s something that I’m still learning how do, and the results tend to be hit or miss. But, despite being on the grainy side, I really like how this one turned out.
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What do you get when there’s a snow storm? A bunch of picture of snow. I’ll have a couple over the next few days, but I won’t drag it out too long, I promise.I snapped this one just as the sun finally decided to show itself after the storm. It was late in the day, and the light was touching the trees in the background.
To give it an even more ethereal look, I imported the picture into Hipstamatic and applied a Anne-Marie lens and Mount Royal film, which blurred the edges of the picture nicely, drawing attention to the sun on the tops of the trees in the background.
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Today’s picture is the view outside my front door this morning. I guess it was inevitable that we’d get some measurable snow, this is New England after all. But I liked it so much better when it was in the 50s…Taken with ProCam3 and cropped and saturation selectively increased around the lamp lights using Snapseed.
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One of the lens that comes in the Ztylus lens kit is a fish eye lens. Fish eye lens are a little on the weird end of photography, I find. It gives you an really interesting picture in certain situations, but its application is so limited. How many landscapes of selfies can you really see in a fish eye view before you go “Okay, enough already, I get it, the world is bendy.”That said, I had to try the fish eye at least once. I knew the picture I wanted to capture, it was more a question about whether the fish eye lens would make it look cool or just kind of goofy. I walked along a path at work today until I came to a group of trees, pointed the camera straight up, and snapped.
I gave the picture some post-processing in Snapseed to make it more moody. I think it turned out, for the most part okay. I don’t know how often I’ll use the fish eye lens, but once in a while, it’s fun.
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Macro view of my snack this afternoon. It is an animal cracker in the shape of an elephant. That is all. -
Last fall I took a drawing class at the Worcester Art Museum. It was great, though tiring at times, given that it was three hours on Monday nights. One of the lessons was dedicated to perspective, which might have been my favorite.Since then, I’ve been conscious of seeing perspectives when I take pictures.
I pass this building often when out for a walk at work. It’s just a parking lot, but, like most buildings, it has corners that come together which provides an interesting perspective, especially when you’re standing up close to it. I also liked how the sun was hitting one side of one of those corners as I passed today.
Shot with the native camera app, cropped and centered in Snapseed, and converted to black and white using Black Cam.
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Believe it or not, we have a volleyball court at work. It’s right next to the basketball court. It’s been there since we moved into the building, a holdover I assume from the previous tenants. We’ve been in this building for two and a half years, and I walk at lunch most days to stretch my legs and get my daily dose of vitamin C, and I have never once seen any playing volleyball.These days, the sand is wet and hard since it is, after all, winter. But the last few days have been warm, and as I was waking by it today, I noticed the puddles, and how the sun was reflecting off the puddles through the bare trees.
This picture is the result of that observation.
Scott Lyerly 