Suffering for art

‎So the sink at work has died and we no longer have access to filtered water. That means that my walk to work this morning included 20lbs of water bottles in my backpack. 

The good news is that I left early enough to catch the sunrise :)

Sent from my supremely cool BlackBerry  Z10 which totally doesn't look like an Iphone...

It's not snowing...

... but I honestly don't know what the weather is doing right now.

It's not hail, either.  The balls are as light as snowflakes, and not hard at all.  They're like styrofoam.

It's also above freezing right now, so they're trying to melt, too.

So does anyone know that name of this type of precipitation?

Macro Monday

So Anna found an old memory stick; it's out of date and essentially useless, but makes for a nice macro :) As always, we have a reference, regular and stupid macro level shot :)

You know, one of these times I should dig out my real camera and start taking shots again...

Macro Monday

‎Yes, we are a bit late on this post, but in my defense, I was very busy napping yesterday. 

This is the saw blade from my multi tool.

Sent from my supremely cool BlackBerry  Z10 which totally doesn't look like an Iphone....

So many feet...

Sent from Anna's phone

Things you still can't do with a phone camera

So I went out with the cameras this evening. The shots shared here are from the same evening, same location on one of the local bridges. The first two shots are with the D80 using a 15mm lens while the last two are phone camera shots with the 180 fisheye lens.

  The first thing to notice is the fact that the DSLR shots are simply better quality images; better resolution, better detail, better colour rendering. The second thing to notice is that the phone camera allowed me to take a 180 degree fisheye shot, at reasonable quality, for a fraction of the price it would cost me to get for my DSLR. For my system, Fisheye lenses start at about $375 and work their way up to about 10 grand. The fisheye used on my phone camera was about $30. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to buy a proper fisheye for my camera but I happen to like being married so I'll not bring that one up with the boss.

Bottom line, I've got toys for everyday use and I've got a solid wishlist of things to get in the future :D.

Long live photography.
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F22, Auto Aperture ending at around 10 seconds



F22, 2 second exposure (fully manual mode)

Macro Monday

So I'm having way too much fun with my phone lenses. I'm sure I've said this before, but just to reiterate...

The reference:

 Macro lens on

Macro lens and Macro mode on

I should really take the same shot with my 90mm Tamron on my DSLR just to see how it rates.