Dry Ice Experiments

Pholcid with Prey

I shot this wide, but think it’s far more effective cropped in. Gives me the willies.

AtlanticUS

Kaleidosouk

Today I had my most hated of jobs. Sitting next to a video link in a shirt just in case somebody needs something interpreting. Hateful as this is (and - lesson learned frankly, I’m not booking these again) it does provide a context in which you must be creative within limited resources. Namely, your house.

Not a kite eating a squirrel

Saw a kite waiting for a gap in the traffic to grab some roadkill. The light and the drama were just right so I zoomed home, picked up the 100-500, and rushed back. After half an hour of waiting for it to return I came home with this.

Howzeeeee!

Bassingbourn break a run of five losses with a win against Cambridge NCI.

Final Race of the Night

Last night at Royston Rockets. Many thanks to the club for letting us get in their way.

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An extra one for fun:

UPDATE: Royston Rockets have used the top image in their website banner.

Wildflowers

Another experiment. Two identical images. Completely desaturated the green in one. Blurred the other. Layered the blurred colour image behind the desaturated one and set the top image to 45% opacity. Theoretically our brains fit wobbly colour to crisp edges (according to watercolour lessons I had years ago) and this is my finding the point where it starts to not.

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Extra one. Double exposure with intentional camera movement on one of them:

Three Elements

A quick technical experiment for creating multi-exposures without the background diluting the strength of the single-exposure foreground. Because I have a plan for tomorrow night. We’ll see….

Pride 2023 (Gallery)

Impish

Free

Like No-One’s Watching

Sliding Into Your Demonic Messages

Titania Trust

Floss

Ultraviolet Flower Test

Hmm… Turns out if you filter out all visible and IR light, you don’t have much light left (!) so it’s hard to get a high shutter speed or small aperture. These all employed a UV torch to help that. I was naively hoping for otherwise-invisible patterns to emerge but either I’m capturing the light wrong, or I’m misremembering something from my childhood about bees….

Dahlias

Not sure which of these I prefer…

Doomscroll Alternative

Royston Rockets Compo Night

Excellent shoes

Barely rescued from the gloom

YAAAH!

Ikebana

I cannot decide if large-aperture multi-focus stacking creates a different image from a single smaller-aperture exposure (all other things being equal). My impression is that it creates a feeling of looking at a painted work (traditionally all parts in minute focus) that I do not feel with a straightforward large depth of field…