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I took this with my phone to use as a reference for a photo I took with another camera. I wasn’t intending to do anything with it, but I find it *fascinating* that the phone’s digital zoom function makes it look like it’s made up of brushstrokes instead of pixels.
(Though personally, I’ve never understood why digital zoom is implemented as a resize instead of just cropping to a lower resolution.)
🌸 Cherry blossoms!
I had a hard time narrowing down which of these to post, and finally settled on two from the a6000, one from my phone in portrait mode, and one from my phone in regular mode.
The simulated depth of field on the Pixel 2 still looks a *little* off in most pictures, but it’s always better than I expect it to be!
#photography #cherryBlossoms #sakura #spring #photos #flowers
More photos from this botanical garden
This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong to me. I was going for a view with the daffodils in focus and the coral tree behind them blurry, but unfortunately it’s not blurry enough to look intentional.
I took a shot with my film camera too, but I haven’t finished the roll yet, so I won’t know for a while whether that one came out better.
#fotofails #photography #garden
A windmill in suburbia. Apparently it was built by one of Hermosa Beach’s city founders around 1900 and later moved to its present location, a small triangle of grass and trees in the corner of a grocery store lot next to Pacific Coast Highway. It’s no longer functional as far as I know, except as a historical landmark.
Tonight’s waxing crescent moon. It’s passing in front of the Hyades star cluster right now, which I’d love to get a photo of, but the moon’s just waaay too bright to capture the background stars!
#photography #moon #night #stargazing
In the time it took me to get a light meter reading and swap lenses on the old film camera, the light went from perfectly highlighting the flowers to leaving some of them in shadow.
Fortunately I took a shot with my phone before I started fumbling with equipment and the shadows moved, but the fake depth of field just isn’t the same.
@eylul I made one! But the pictures are super blurry. I think I have the distance wrong or maybe the pinhole is too wide? How did you determine the position for the foil? And what did you use for the hole? I used a sewing needle.
Lemons after the rain (digital). And the same lemons ~2 months earlier (film).
The potted lemon tree is still small, but it’s mature enough to produce lemons. Of course, at two feet tall, it’s only producing a crop of maybe five lemons a year.
One of the photos I took when we dragged out the old film camera was of this tree, so I keep coming back to it. It’s joined the moon and the distant LA skyline as a standard test subject!
@youcantoo I’ve been wanting to try out my new camera on the moon (it arrived a couple of days *after* the eclipse), but I just can’t bring myself to stay up past midnight for it.
At least with random photos of the moon, it’s only a matter of waiting a week or two.
Thanks to everyone who gave advice on mirrorless/DSLR cameras! I decided to go with the Sony a6000.
Here’s a shot of a coral tree flower, from my first photo-walk with it, at a local botanical garden. (It’s winter, but here that means we actually got rain recently.)
#photography #flower #CoralTree
Waning #moon, taken with the settings I *should* have used for the eclipse on Sunday.
I like taking photos of the moon when it’s between phases (rather than full) because you get to see the most texture in it at those times.
Some recent sun #halo displays I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks: An upper tangent arc (my first!), the top edges of a circumscribed and 22° circular halo, and most of a 22° circular halo (with bonus contrail shadow on the cloud layer!)
All shot on my Pixel 2 with levels adjusted.
These are all formed by reflection and refraction of light in ice crystals. (A great reference: https://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/common.htm )
Also, all seen from Los Angeles, which isn’t freezing…at ground level.
I caught a glimpse of the trail from today’s Delta 4 launch out of Vandenberg while driving, and made a beeline for the coast for a better look. I did manage to catch a clear view of the trail, though winds had already started blowing it out of shape, and stayed briefly to look at the boats on the ocean and the scenery.
#Photography #ocean #RocketTrail #cliff
Raindrops on sage, spotted while walking around in the rain today.
There were two major cloudbursts, one overnight and one mid-morning. At this point the second one had faded to a little more than a drizzle, something a bit more comfortable to walk in.
I’m a hobbyist, not a pro, &shoot with compact cameras & my phone. Digging out the old film SLR has got me thinking about a DSLR or mirrorless.
I’m looking for something a step up from entry-level, maybe like the Nikon D5600 or Fujifilm X-T20. Has anyone had experience with these, or recommendations for something else?
Looking for decent quality & auto, plus ability to do manual settings when I want to.
Thanks!
#photography #cameras #advice
Flowers in and out of their depth (of field).
#Photography #flowers
Taken with the old Sears TLS.
I went back to the same marsh I’d visited in early December, after a few more rainstorms. The ponds had spread, covering trails I’d walked along just a few weeks earlier. Ducks and geese had arrived in force.
I could also swear I heard a frog, but I couldn’t see it, and even with the weird southern California seasons, I don’t think it’s the right time for frogs to be out. I should’ve asked at the visitor center.
#photography, #nature #geese #marsh #pond
I swear none of these turtles moved at all the entire time I was there.
Another one nearby pulled its head into its shell, but this is a stabilized animation using several photos of these three, and the pond ripples change, the turtles don’t move a pixel as far as I can tell!
#turtles #photography
Last weekend I went for a hike at a local marsh. The lower areas are filling with water again now that we’ve had a few rainstorms.
I made a point of going late in the afternoon to catch some golden hour light, which didn’t work out quite as well as I was hoping, but I think this shot came out reasonably interesting.
Not sure, but I think I walked through this pond last time I was here and it was all dry ground.
#photography #marsh #woods #pond
