Facebook Cover photo : Montreal Photographers 15 Aug 2021
Sunrise over Old Port Montreal - 4J5A8396-HDR-Edit
Facebook Cover Photo: Harvards over Southern Africa
Thank you to Marius van Marius Van Dyk - Fine-Art Photography for this months cover photograph :) - Mike Russell
Captains log: 14 April 2020 - in the year of covid19 Lockdown
I am preparing for some macro photography ( or should i rather say micro photography) as well as the new season for Milky Way photography here in the northern hemisphere. 2 extremes.
i have done a few elementary Milky way shots and are exploring the finer techniques of stacking multiple shots ~ 400 or so to get very sharp images just using my std camera with a optical filter to cut the light pollution from the cities. Maybe the Nebula bug will bite me and then i need to go over to Telescope equipment.
For the macro’s during this lockdown period i want to experiment with a specific style that i have not seen before, just to give a different perspective of things. I will try the traditional insects and flowers but that is to common. Im exploring some ways to shoot micro mechanics and microarchitecture
Getting low cost extension tubes this week to kick off the exploration
Signing off till next time
Facebook Cover photo: Montréal Photography 25 May 2020
Proud to have this photo selected for the Cover page of the Montreal Photographers fb page
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PHOTO CONTEST Your Pictures: The Beauty of Winter
https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/photo-contest/the-beauty-of-winter/
NEGATIVE SPACE A pink-hued winter sky brings warmth to a lone tree in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Canada. © Marius van Dyk
PUBLICATION ON Digitalcameraworld.com
4J5A7366-Edit-Edit-1
Brief : Attention to Detail
This was my entry of a Mont Blanc watch close up (Photo:4J5A7366-Edit-Edit-1)
This photo was selected to be 1 of the 100 photos that will be featured in the next Digitalcameraworld.com publication.
https://gurushots.com/challenge/attention-to-details1/winners/exhibit-digital
Some feedback from the Fstoppers Landscape forum
Thanks for the info, Marius. I'm pleased to hear that you were portraying what you saw, rather than invented. The world is a beautiful place as is.
Often digital photographers' attempts to improve on it have the opposite effect for me. (Of course, this is a separate issue from the fact that a RAW file is often nothing like what we saw.) I'm so used to seeing the Orton effect and others that I assumed you'd probably done this. I find it interesting that your adjustments in clarity, contrast and dehaze are in the OPPOSITE direction to what I'd have expected.
Clearly you haven't contrived, but captured and conveyed the reality to us. Well done! Hope to see more from you. It's hard to believe you've only been at this seriously for such a short time.
Alone
Publication in Digitalcameraworld.com: Photo #91
Another photo that was selected for publication. Part of my macro photography effort.
Please find an article about the GuruShots challenge and photos on digitalcameraworld.com
Latest news: in and around Montreal
As winter is approaching, scenes like this will be transformed by a thick layer of snow in the next few weeks. Landscape photography in these conditions are challenging as access to good view points are restricted - moving through 4ft deep snow (at my age) is more than fun.
