P1150984 - Ok, I've been stuck behind a computer for three days solid, the weather has been abysmal; fog, rain, drizzle. I though I was going stir crazy or had cabin fever, then they let me out.........
So there are three; plain, this one and another.
P1150978 - Ok, I've been stuck behind a computer for three days solid, the weather has been abysmal; fog, rain, drizzle. I though I was going stir crazy or had cabin fever, then they let me out.........
So there are three; plain, this one and another.
P1150965 - I say return, but this is one of those were you take a whole bunch of images and they look nothing like you saw. So, you may not have seen this before, but hey does it matter.
So this a plain and simple one!
There a couple of others
P1150924 - I think this one nearly worked, mushroom in the x4 and the rest hanging around in the x2 of the magnify glass.
I done a few and the light was quite poor, so here is the best two of about five. But don't worry there will be plenty more.........................
P1150893 - I'll admit it I have no idea what this moss is called, but it looks like the kitchen scourer
Pseudoscleropodium purum - green moss
Lichen to the right hand side of the tree
P1150952 - flash shot, the only way to get this massive mushroom, flashing it's gills. Had to be quick the dogs were already edging to get going.
Free lensing all for £4.00 x2 x4 magnify glass
Was mucking around testing what stuff looked like with my new super hands free macro lens. Oh sorry, I mean the £4.00 magnify glass from Marks and Sparks and liked it that much, just needed to share.
P1150648 - just mucking around with a lens hand held and freehand - free lensing
P1150650 - bit more free lensing
Some will say this is ugly, I consider it part of the process to get to the beauty at the other end. But strangely, I think it has it's own prettiness.
playing with some filters just to see what happens
P1150710
sorry just looked like some one (Jack Frost) had come along and played around before blast freezing these
P1150564 - bit of a droplet day, mainly because it has been drizzling most of the night and day.
Interesting playing around with focus to get this droplets how you see them, for the minute these are as good as it gets. But will try harder!
bit of a droplet day, mainly because it has been drizzling most of the night and day.
Interesting playing around with focus to get this droplets how you see them, for the minute these are as good as it gets. But will try harder!
bit of a droplet day, mainly because it has been drizzling most of the night and day
P1150534 - bit of a droplet day, mainly because it has been drizzling most of the night and day
liked the way the sun was playing on this. Then was trying work out if it would be consider sculpture or a tree. But would it be a tree without leaves
Sorbus glabrescens
White Berry
P1150309 - copped - About two weeks ago I was attempting some landscapes, during the discussion I made a statement about my normal view was from the car. See landscape series III
Basically this is set is a mini series including some of the images I have displayed and said home icon, seen this for x years and so on
Bit of Boxing day fun
The other end of the Waxing gibbous Southern England 16th Dec 2010 @ 21.34pm GMT
Some of your have previous heard the story about my little berries, others may have not!
The experiments started back on October 22 nd to investigate the difference between a ‘point and shoot’ camera and the ability to adjust the aperture on sDLR or similar cameras. In capturing a clicked bokeh.
Further experiments were performed to see if there was constant method of producing a bokeh image using a point and click/point and shoot camera.
The experiments concluded with some test shots being performed in a controlled environment. This test found that the ratio of 1:1:4 camera, object and background worked on the Panasonic DMC TZ5 camera.
The ratio is not fixed as the distance between the camera and the object can be greater than 1 in the focal distance. However the background must be four times greater than the minimum focal distance between the camera and the object to be in focus. Experiments collection www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/collections/72157625234...
The image above has been clicked using a macro lens 0.45 wide, which sort of tricks the cameras software into shallowing the distance between the camera and the focal object, in turn reducing the distance between the object and background.
So is it really a bokeh image, should it not have flashing lights behind it and other various party tricks. Well Bokeh as you know is from the Japanese Boke or Bo-ke, the ‘h’ was added for the English pronunciation and spelling.
So how old is bokeh, The English spelling bokeh was popularized in 1997, quite new then.
Well, I pondered that for a while....read on at your own risk.
The Art World
If we move to the art world, we find that this effect was used at the end of the 19th Century and start of the 20th Century by the French impressionist movement; here’s a few that you might know;
Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870)
Gustave Caillebotte (who, younger than the others, joined forces with them in the mid 1870s) (1848–1894)
Mary Cassatt (American-born, she lived in Paris and participated in four Impressionist exhibitions) (1844–1926)
Paul Cézanne (although he later broke away from the Impressionists) (1839–1906)
Edgar Degas (a realist who despised the term Impressionist, but is considered one, due to his loyalty to the group) (1834–1917)
Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927)
Édouard Manet (who did not regard himself, nor is generally seen, as an Impressionist, but who exhibited his work with theirs and was a great influence on them), (1832–1883)
Claude Monet (the most prolific of the Impressionists and the one who most clearly embodies their aesthetic)[17] (1840–1926)
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895)
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899)
So, 1830 to around 1930, if we then take watercolourist from 1910 onwards you will see these pictures using a similar technique.
We know that Monet was mentored by Charles Gleyre and together developed a en plein air technique. Much of their work was done outdoors, in the diffuse light provided by a large white umbrella.
We know that Monet had cataracts, his paintings having a reddish tone, some of the paintings he repainted post the operations, with bluer water lilies.
So, why am I rambling on about painted art, well mainly to understand what true bokeh is take a moment to look at Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Claude_...
Dutch Art
Then have a think about Van Gogh ‘self portrait, Starry night, Wind beaten tree, they all have the main object in clear focus with the back ground not so detailed.
We know than Vicent Van Gogh aet the lead based paint for substance; believe it or not he was very poor during the period of his creations, including numerous version of the famous daisy. On Bokeh terms he could be classed as a Boke-teru
Boke is from the Japanese word boketeru which means stupid, or senile. Someone's thinking is not clear or just plain wacked. So in photography, boke refers to the out of focus or "unclear" areas.
I know this word very well as my wife says "boketeru" to me all the time. It's pronounced bo-ke, not bo-kay.
We could in fact take the bokeh theory back to the quattrocento following what now seems the slightly more obscure gothic pure symbolism. The Italian greats simple did not include the background details were as the Dutch masters did. Wiki link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Golden_Age_painting
Returning to where you started from
Returning to my controlled experiments, the position of light had no affect on the ‘out of focus’ area. It was clear that the relation of the object to the focal point of the camera and the ratio to the background generated the affect of focusing the eye on the object. The controlled experiment results are in the set ‘Bokeh the Berry the final frontier’ www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/sets/72157625452602501/
Conclusion
Bokeh or 'bo-ke' should be at least one object in focus, whilst over contain enough detail to represent what they are. E.g. you should with little effort be able to view the background items and assimilate what they are.
This then begs the question what does the sparkling lights have to do with Bokeh and when does it become Depth of Field (DoF).
Leaf Bokeh, DoF or Impressionist?
There I am in the middle of the woods and it is snowing leafs. All my practice with settings whilst standing in the rain and wind, with man flu. Could I get it right NO.
But sometimes from accidents nice things appear, that's my excuse for this.
The art side of me (never realised there was one), said it shows the movement and spinning of the falling leaves I've gone with that concept.
P1140780 - It's here
I would like to thank you all for making me feel welcome to Flickr. I had many reservations about joining but jumped on board on the 11th Oct 2010 and had fun every since.
I trust from time to time I have made you smile, I've made mistakes and made some stupid comments on peoples images as well. So a big thank you to all of you for putting up with me and hope you will forgive me.
And a big thank you for all the help and advice.
Have a great time with your family and friends over the next few days
Happy Christmas and may your god be with you.
Some will of had plenty of beer
Whilst other will be lying in fear
Some will be dying
For some it will be their first appear
Some will be jolly
Some will be sad
Whilst for others they will be glad
Many will ponder
Others will wander
Some will expect
Others will reject
It’s that time of year that many fear
Did I get it right?
Should I stay out sight?
No matter your plight
Try not to fight
Love, peace and happiness to all
Part of the RM winter solstice theme click the "#RM winter solstice theme" tag to see the rest of the series www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/tags/rmwintersolsticeth...
P1130929 - Apologies if this offends anyone.
This is English Bacon, normally more fatty than our European friends, but on a personal note, it is the only Bacon for the famous bacon butty recent and previous travel around northern Europe can confirm this, previous southern Europe absolutely no chance of even getting near.
So why is it part of the Winter solstice theme, bacon is a cured meat (either brine or wind dried) and theory has it that old ancestors cut the fat off then eat it in a celebration, then wind dried the meat for the cold months ahead after the sun's rebirth on the 21st of December.
Now the interesting part is, if you follow this concept, you can party from yesterday right the way through. At mid-winter the Norsemen lit bonfires, told stories and drank sweet ale. If you follow the Roman methodology Saturnalia ran for seven days from the 17th of December. It was a time when the ordinary rules were turned upside down. Men dressed as women and masters dressed as servants. The festival also involved decorating houses with greenery, lighting candles, holding processions and giving presents.. Then Celts The Celts thought that the sun stood still for twelve days in the middle of winter and during this time a log was lit to conquer the darkness, banish evil spirits and bring luck for the coming year.
If you follow these three you should be pretty happy and warm by now, so why wrap it all into one day God known's.
Me, I like to give all year and be merry (even though many consider me grumpy) , enjoy and what it throws at me. So may your God be with you and bring you merriment as you wish.
Part of the RM winter solstice theme click the "#RM winter solstice theme" tag to see the rest of the series www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/tags/rmwintersolsticeth...
Data from: www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/festivals/december/christmas-...
www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/holydays/winter...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon
Various items from the garden, testing new lens adaptor fitted to camera
Here is the rest of the experiment. Remember it is only a Point & Shot or Point & Click. Panasonic DMC TZ5
I have cropped all of them to remove superfluous detail created by the attachment.
If you have the time I would be quite interested to know what people think, I am fairly pleased with the results. You'll see from the 'P' numbers there are very few shots in between (mainly adjusting things), so as a P&S process it's quite good. The time was cropping out the junk from the outer edges. However, this could be fixed with some effort on the attachment., so do think is worth the effort is what I am sort of asking.
Many thanks in advance for comments, feedback, questions or other statements in relation to the images please quote the last three digits of the 'P' number if you could, sorry to be a pain
P1110924 - all about texture and distance
Santa's outsourced workshop some where in Hampshire...........
Part of the RM winter solstice theme click the "#RM winter solstice theme" tag to see the rest of the series http://www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/tags/rmwintersolsticetheme/
P1130880 - Just a bit of free lensing fun, between meetings.
Well it's seasonal!
So I thought, check out the words before making one self look stupid or make a Wikileak...
And found out the following interesting information Originally, carols were dances and not songs. The accompanying tune would have been used as a setting for any verses of appropriate metre. Singers would compete with each other, verse for verse
The church actively opposed these folk dances. Consequently, tunes originally used to accompany carols became separated from the original dances, but were still referred to as "carols".
And here's the original sort of version, which I think has a true meaning of the Winter Solecist than the religious modern version.
Cold is the man who can't love,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la,
The old mountains of dear Wales,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la,
To him and his warmest friend,
Fa la, Fa la, fa la la,
A cheerful holiday next year,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la.
To the troubled, cold are the bills,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la,
Which come during the holidays,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la,
Listening to a sermon in one verse,
Ffa la, Ffa la, fa la la,
Spending more than you earn,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la.
Cold is the fire on Mount Snowdon,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la,
Even though it has a flannel blanket on it,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la,
Cold are the people who don't care,
Ffa la, Ffa la, fa la la,
To meet together on New Year's Eve,
Fa la la la la, fa la la la.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_the_Halls
Part of the RM winter solstice theme click the "#RM winter solstice theme" http://www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/5280248256/
P1010348 - Off the beach in Egypt, Moray Gardens all snorkelling. 0 - 8 metres, mainly 2-3 metres.
Lettuce coral (Turbinaria mesenterina)
Part of the RM winter solstice theme
Just part of the moon stuff with tree's bushes etc
Could I get this between the two prongs No and here is the evidence. Why that little ball of fun is 200,000 miles away and the branch was about 60 feet away, it was free hand and every time I clicked the shutter it dropped. And No, no I am not going to PS, GIMP it or anything. I've a remote shutter on the Christmas list
Rose buds in the snow, like the red in snow and the sun was shinning. didn't quite get shot I was after, so failed. But liked the result of this and the mixture going on. Plus I thought the buds came out pretty good (just had so many out of focus lately).
as going to be seat with a view, but the seat faces platform 2, which has no track bed.
The view is of Culver Down the building (Culver Fort or Culver Battery) is created from local brick. One of the many Palmerston Forts build on the Island to protect us and the overners from a French invasion.
The other interesting fact about the station it is just about the level of the river Yar. The land just the over side of the station formed a sea way 'Haven' in Henry VIII time, with sea going vessels unloading goods in Brading. Charles II also arrived by sea 1665, later to be held in Carisbrooke Castle.
Snowed, stopped, sun. Liked the landscape and then good old naked Maple provided some framing and a leaded glass effect.
got a new phone and took some pictures. Not bad at fairly close stuff, complete rubbish at long distance, but hey wanted a phone to make phone calls and text/sms people. Not to control Apollo 13 or perform a flight simulation to see if the pilot's doing right whilst on an landing at Heathrow.
his set shows the different colour settings available from the Panasonic DMC TZ5.
To view this set www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/sets/72157625475976671/ or click the tag #RMM Mushroom Colour Settings"www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/tags/rmmmushroomcolours...
This set is part of a larger collection which includes each setting on the camera in a controlled environment.
The Fully Monty of this experiment is available The Mushroom Experiments the Full Monty - All settings in a controlled environment www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/collections/72157625607...
This set shows the different colour settings available from the Panasonic DMC TZ5.
To view this set www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/sets/72157625475976671/ or click the tag #RMM Mushroom Colour Settings"www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/tags/rmmmushroomcolours...
This set is part of a larger collection which includes each setting on the camera in a controlled environment.
The Fully Monty of this experiment is available The Mushroom Experiments the Full Monty - All settings in a controlled environment www.flickr.com/photos/rustymarvin/collections/72157625607...
Came across this little group, lying around in the fallen leaves, looked like they were chilling out in the winter sun, lazying around and general having a good time.
...where did I put those marbles.. in my line of work you have to have some form of distraction, talking to mushrooms seems ok by me.
took a couple of similar shots and like you I was disappointed with the focus on the gills.
I apologise to those who like the debris out the way, but that's what it looks like from down here!
Thought this looked good as I stepped across, so went back and done it again with the camera.
Yep, gave me the same sort of feeling as I stepped across it looking down. Which way was up.........
So don't have a lens baby or any other lens add-ons and played with the magnify glass on the berries, thought I see what in done in the big wide world.
I am limited in where the camera sits on it, hence the slight right obscure.
Did think it showed the end of the road for something that has a taken a few years to grow, drunk water, bathed in the sun, been cold in the winter after fighting to grow and not being eaten by one of the forest animals.
In the meantime converted CO2 to oxygen for us to breath if only a small contribution.
Life goes on.........
More of the chimney breasts a different set over the hedge this time, liked the way the branches framed this one.
I like the still air, which seems dense would be nice to counter some of the street light orange (so that's another little project then).
Foreground, felt roof with snow. tall hedge behind
Turn around and there are a couple of breast just waiting to be clicked.
It would seem Alton in Hampshire have tall ones, not sure if it's to do with Queen Anne or if there was another reason, building regulations etc. The pots seem longer than others, just saying.
