Is it just me or is there really something fun about driving through tunnels. Especially one where you can’t see the exit. In a sense driving through a tunnel is a leap of faith. You direct the high speed projectile you are encapsulated in towards a little hole in the side of a hill and […]
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Yesterday a friend lent me a closeup attachment for one of my zoom lenses so undertook a few experiments. I wanted to see how a dedicated closeup lens attachment (Canon 500-D ) compared with a simple +2 diopter correction filter. I found the short answers is ‘it depends’. I only tested two lenses, 17-40 and […]
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There’s a world of action going on up there if you could only peer at the surface of the Sun. Being curious I just had to sneak a peak. Oh look, tadpoles! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 594, Star Tadpoles’ 1/1600s f/8.0 ISO160(ND400+) 400mm
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No I did not publish an upside down image! It is just as was captured. While heading into town I tried and tried to create an image with a streaking background to give a sense of speed. Unfortunately all I got was jagged bumping blurriness. This image finally came close by jamming the camera bottom […]
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This sign in my view really grated with me at first. The leading lines kept on drawing me back to the bent, buckled and defaced warning sign which seemed so out of place. I re-framed the the shot a little further down so that I only captured the unobscured clean lines of the drain but […]
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