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Week 5 - Textures
Week 5 - Textures
BeckyT


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Camera: Nikon D300s
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Blowing Rock Preserve
Date: Jan 27, 2013
Aperture: f25
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1
Galleries: Nature, Textures
Date Uploaded: Feb 1, 2013

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Went to Blowing Rock Preserve with my girl friends for our photo trip. We are doing a photo week outside of DPC and are blogging it here No Wimpy Girls Photography blog. It is a lot of fun taking photos with friends with the same interest.

This is a photograph of a feather, sand (crushed shells) and sea weed remnants on the feather. Some have mentioned the slow shutter speed. Well I had a lot of filters on my lens in order to shut out the bright sun light while photographing the waves. Too lazy to take off filters, reset the fstop and speed up the shutter :)

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03/03/2013 01:24:44 PM
Nice B & W...great texture
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02/12/2013 04:47:46 PM
Nice mix of textures and surprisingly sharp given the slow shutter speed and very small aperture. In absolute terms, maximum sharpness is better at about f/8 or larger. Diffraction around the lens iris can significantly degrade resolution with f-stops of f/11 and smaller. Of course, sometimes the need to maximize dof overrides the diffraction issue.
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02/11/2013 08:16:22 PM
Wonderful details here and a good depth of field. The b&w conversion is great.
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02/10/2013 01:48:04 AM
I think the filters helped. Good B&W contrasts and patterns, straight feather lines coupled with crushed quartz. Photography, it's the thing to share :)
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02/05/2013 02:11:34 AM
Great details in the feather, lovely.
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02/04/2013 12:38:50 PM
Contrasting textures. The soft/harsh/straight lines of the feather vs. the rounded, just a bit angular shapes of the broken (what is that?) shells? glass? and sand. Beautiful way to show textures. I think texture photos work when the viewer can feel the picture, as if she were touching the surface with her hands. I can do that here. Beautiful.
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02/03/2013 11:32:33 PM
Beautiful placement of that feather, and the contrasts of textures are worth looking at for a long time.
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02/02/2013 07:33:30 PM
Wonderful textural contrasts - the details in the feather are particularly impressive, I think. I'm shooting with a friend this week, too - lucky me, lucky you :)
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02/02/2013 06:36:50 PM
Blowing Rocks. That sounds painful. ;-)

Definitely a lot of texture here. Very contrasty.
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02/02/2013 01:21:50 PM
Interesting choice t go for f/25 and 1" exposure. You would expect to see quite a bit of diffraction at this aperture, and at 1" you tripod had better be a sturdy one. I also don't see why you would need the larger DoF, especially in a case like this where you could have the subject perfectly in the plane of focus.
The result is a good picture, maybe with too harsh shadows for my liking (as soon as you invite people to comment you are bound to get conflicting responses all the time!), but a nice contrast between the softness of the feather (hardened by the contrast) and the hardness of the broken shells (?).
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02/01/2013 10:01:12 PM
F- 25 - no wonder it's so beautifully crisp .. just lovely and I too checked out your blog .. oh I am sooooooo happy for you that you have a group to go with .. what fun!
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02/01/2013 08:54:45 PM
Nice use of the rocks and plant leaf to add a variety of textures. I personally would like to see the shadows a bit darker but that is more of a personal preference.
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02/01/2013 08:21:29 PM
Chockablock with varied textures. I like the diagonal sweep of the feather across the image. Thank you for the link to the blog - beautiful photos. It must be great to have a group of friends with the same interests to go and explore with.
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02/01/2013 06:39:45 PM
Lots of interesting textures here.
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