Sticky Situation
Yikes… either the scorpions in the Little Karoo are getting bigger… or I’m getting smaller!
I captured this beautiful “Opistophthalmus karooensis” specimen a few minutes after Jenny discovered it hidden under the weekend newspaper… inside my farm cottage! From now on I’ll be checking my shoes before I put my feet in them!!
Nikon D300, Sigma 18-200mm at 98mm, aperture of f16, with a 1/320th second exposure.
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Uploaded on Nov 23, 2009
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Calitzdorp Stump Sunset
Here’s another Vertorama from last Saturday’s visit to the Calitzorp dam.
Shooting straight into the sun with a sky full of dark clouds and the silhouette of that backlit mountain… resulted in images with huge spikes in the histogram’s shadow and highlight regions… and almost no mid-tones! Balancing the exposures to make it look more like how my eyes saw it at the time… took me over four hours!
I’m not sure whether it was worth it though… :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, aperture of f11, with a 1/200th second exposure.
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Uploaded on Nov 17, 2009
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Calitzdorp Dam Sunset
I spent the weekend on my farm in the Little Karoo again… doing nothing much besides reading, relaxing and taking photographs! :)
I captured the two images that make up this Vertorama just before sunset on Saturday… at a deserted camp-site on the banks of the Calitzdorp dam. What a beautiful (and tranquil) moment that was!!
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, aperture of f14, with a 1/8th second exposure.
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Uploaded on Nov 16, 2009
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Sun Dog
I was sitting outside about half an hour ago (15h30)... when I looked up at the clouds and saw something that I've never seen before... a circular rainbow around the sun. Except it wasn't raining? Thank goodness that my camera was close by when I saw it... :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 18-200mm at 18mm, aperture of f8, with a 1/8000th second exposure.
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Uploaded on Nov 13, 2009
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Oak Tree Sunset
We've had nothing but rain here in Cape Town the whole week now... the light has been pretty crap the entire time... certainly not worth going out shooting for!
I captured the two images for this Vertorama around sunset a couple of weeks ago. I've often stopped to photograph this single oak tree growing just outside Durbanville... I've probably shot it from all angles now, at all times of the day and year!
I didn't see any detail in the leaves of the tree when I first previewed the JPG version of this image (I always shoot in RAW plus JPG), so I didn't even consider processing it. But since I don't have anything new to process, I decided to load up the RAW image to see if I could retrieve some detail from the shadow areas.
Once again I'm amazed by how much extra detail is sitting hidden away in my RAW images... and once again I'm amazed by Nik Software's revolutionary U Point Technology for bringing all out those details in all the right places!!
I've included the original JPG image below, so you can see what I'm talking about.
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, aperture of f10, with a 1/160th second exposure.
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Uploaded on Nov 12, 2009
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