Monday, September 28, 2009

Mundane Monday Sept 28, 2009



What could be more cliche than an apple on a cutting board? A picture of a camera perhaps. Overall not an exciting photo. I thought I would take a strobist approach to reshoot the apple.

Looks better. It has a little more pizzazz with the black background and the top light. You could do this with a flashlight and a point and shoot if you got a little creative.

By the way the girls enjoyed the apple.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Mundane Monday Sept 21, 2009

Next to our door is a great big 6 ft tall clump of Canadian Goldenrod. It's beautiful. It's maligned. It does grow with ragweed which is allergenic in most people, but goldenrod is often identified as the ragweed itself. Two separate plants here, folks.
What's our typical first picture of a flower? Something like this?


Doesn't do a lot for me, the poor goldenrod has been beat down by the rain. It's real smart looking at full height. The rule of thumb is always move in. Let's try getting closer.

Better, but there's that blue wheel from something in the yard. That's gotta go. There is also a web in the flower. Is anybody home? I think we need to dive in a little deeper and try for one more shot.


Here we go, popped a flash, slightly underexposed (-0.3) and zoomed in. I let the camera do the heavy lifting in PROGRAM mode and then I make minor adjustments in aperature for depth of field, exposure to bring out the details and in this case, popped the contrast in post production.
I'm kind of liking the mundane Canadian Goldenrod on the day before the Autumn Equinox. The leaves will be changing soon so charge up the camera batteries and be ready.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Mundane Mondays are Coming!

On Mondays I will be posting a picture of the mundane, but it won't be a boring photo, I hope. This is a challenge to take up and I'll going to set the first round of it to last until November 2. That'll give me plenty of time to see if I can keep up.
Here's a pic I pulled out of the archives of a farm's grain storage.





Click on the image to see it full size. I hope to see you all back on Monday. In the meantime I've got pictures to make.