Playing with weed

I was supposed to join a camera club I’m part of but I couldn’t make it. So I decided to pop outside and get a few weeds for some macro shots. Got a bokeh background on the computer screen and off I went.

Hope you like it.

Jacques le Roux …

Faces forgotten in a art classroom.

Faces

The next selection of photos are from a art project that is sitting in a art classroom gathering dust. I stare at it every time I go there as I find it absolutely amazing and almost life like.To be continued below the photos, I hope you enjoy these images.

Canon 1D MK III
Canon 100mm F2.8 L Macro lens
F22
ISO100
2 seconds (all natural light bounced of 4 reflection boards)

Please Click On The Photos To See It At It’s Better Quality.

I left the notes till last so you can enjoy the images. I used F22, I guess it wasn’t really needed to use such a low aperture but I didn’t want to lose any details of the faces. This is my second attempt at capturing these faces. I shot them the first time at F8 but lost to much of the detail. I hope you thought these faces as amazing as I did. Pure work of art!

I find the art department to have so many possibilities for photos. I might sneak in one day and spend some time taking as many photos as possible. I’ll have to leave that for another post in the future.

Photographs by Jacques …

Glasgow transport museum Part 2

Second part of the Glasgow transport museum tour.

Slowly it has dawned on me I might have found the part of photography I like the most. People say look at the bigger picture, I think I prefer to show the smaller part of the bigger picture. Everyone’s seen the bigger picture but the small things in life pass us by!

Camera: Canon 1D Mark III
Lens: Canon EF 24-105 L IS USM
All indoors photos:
Aperture: F4
ISO: 3200
All outdoors photos:
Aperture: F4 or F8
ISO: 200

Description are below the photo to first give you chance to decide for yourself what it might be.

Easy one, a train lantern.Front of the train with the lantern. The side of a tram.A classic truck radiator and radiator cap.Norton motorcycle.
Fire engine’s pumps.

Now the outside of the Glasgow Transport museum.
Small conclave on the right hand side of the building.
Love the way the angle of the connecting plates draw your eyes to the roof and onwards to the sky.
Just had to take this photo. Another excellent example of the brilliant art around the building. This is the bicycle racks.This is a curved window, see if you can make out the landscape reflected.
If you are ever in Glasgow made a point to visit the museum. In part 3 I will show you the Glenlee which is moored behind the museum.

Photographs by Jacques…

 

 

Glasgow transport museum Part 1

I have visited the museum a few times and always find new things. The more I visit the less I look at the bigger picture and get pulled into small details of the huge machines and building. As I look at each photo I feel my eyes being ‘forced’ into certain direction depending on the shapes in the photo.

This is Part 1 of a possible 3 part post.

Canon 7D was used. ISO was mostly 800, Aperture of F4 or F5.6 were used.

The last 3 photos were taken with my Canon 1D Mark III with the ISO pushed to 3200 and aperture of F5.6.

Photographs by Jacques …

Life in miniature format = Macro play

In the beginning of Spring in 2011 I was bored one afternoon and was looking for something to do. I ended up on the round-about close to my house in the flower bed. I cut open a flower’s one side and found a miniature world rich with life inside.

Photos were taken with a Canon 450D and stock 18-55mm lens.
F13, ISO1600
F8, ISO1600 F5.6, ISO800 F13, ISO1600You can see the size of the flower here as I held it in hand and before cutting the side open to get closer to the little creatures. There is a world out there and we miss so much of it, I really need to do more things like this.
As I was walking to the round-about I took these few photos.

Photographs by Jacques …

Take your camera shopping.

We have many a shop around our homes that has some interesting options for photos.

I enjoy popping into my local garden centre and seeing what I can find to photograph. Below are photos taken 2 years ago at one of these garden centres.

Next time you are going to your local garden centre pack your camera in and see what photos you take home.

Of course you need to take photos of flowers.

Photographs by Jacques…

What am I?

What am I?

I’m oval but also round. I am part of most people’s childhood memories.
Adults and children love me.
I might be yellow this time next time I might red or blue or brown or maybe even pink.
I melt in you hands on a hot summers day.
Or I could melt in your mouth if you can keep the temptation to bite me at bay.
Are you getting any closer to the answer?
I’m a Smartie of course!
Hope you had fun looking and reading this entry about shooting macro photos of Smarties.

Photographs by Jacques…

Out with the old in with the new.

Out with the old in with the new.

These photos were taken 2 years ago at our local river at the end of winter and beginning of spring. It was so nice to see life starting to come back to the grey and brown surrounding.

I love the effect that your eyes get drawn up to the top of the photo and then starts running down the middle to the bottom. I like this photo even though it’sa bit busy in the background, I’ll have to revisit this site.

Photographs by Jacques…

Blast from the Past Part III

Blast from the Past – Part 3, Feb-March 2011

A few more photos from 2 years ago. The photos were taken in the areas surrounding Bathgate and West Calder in Scotland. It’s nice to look back over these photos as they bring good memory back of struggling with learning the basics of photography. The camera did 90% of the work as I didn’t know enough yet to get the best out of it.

Bathgate Korean War memorial

Torphichen:


The Knock, Bathgate:

West Calder Park:

Photographs by Jacques…

Just because it’s miserable outside doesn’t mean creativity has to be paused.

Just because it’s miserable outside doesn’t mean creativity has to be paused.

It’s winter in Scotland and it’s miserable outside. If it’s not raining and windy then it’s snowing  (it finally arrive 2 days late for Xmas).

As I couldn’t go outside with the camera I scouted the bookshelf for some interesting nick-nacks. I found some toys, some figures, a candle coaster and a Xmas decoration on the Xmas tree.

You see if you’re in a pinch for some props you can find something interesting without going very far or looking very hard. I will be visiting my local pound store soon for some more props. I have already got some coloured match sticks to try next time.

I really need to invest in more lighting. The current set-up is leaving shadows and not working very well. It’s on my to do list.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 100mm Macro L F2.8

Child’s wooden train:
Aperture of F2.8 is keeping the background nicely out of focus while still giving shape and colour to the objects.



Small toy cars:




A beetle or maybe a ladybird made out of beads and wire:

A candle’s coaster made from broken glass:
I like the colours in the coaster, I think I will go back to this prop again in the future for more detailed photos.


Cats:
The Xmas decoration photo wasn’t going to be added but once I saw it on screen I changed my mind. It looks like the cat is reaching for the light.

I hope you like this week’s addition. You see just because it’s raining, windy or snowing doesn’t mean we can’t have fun as photographers.

Photographs by Jacques …