photographs: people, places & things
August visit to City Airport and Heliport Manchester I always enjoy my visits to City Airport in Manchester. From leaving home I can be there in 20 minutes or so and if the weather is good it really is a decent place to pass an hour or two. Last week with time to spare and […]
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Macro photography with Sigma 105 and Neewer ring flash I have been really enjoying getting to grips with macro photography and improving the light source was a game changer for me. With that in mind I have a number of ‘home made’ softboxes of varying sizes, shapes and material and each of them have been […]
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Macro photography in the garden – with Neewer macro ring flash Well there’s an expression that I quite like and it’s the ‘every day’s a school day’ expression, and I suppose it is, there really is always something to learn. The next few days will see me having a go with a new ‘gadget’ for […]
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Macro photography at Lyme park During our recent trip to Lyme Park we took some time out to spend half an hour or so with the macro lenses on. I had my Sigma 105mm lens and for the images in the picture gallery used one of my home made soft boxes, which for the most […]
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Visiting Lyme Park Cheshire – National Trust The National Trust site at Lyme Park is always a wonderful place to visit and we made a pretty much spur of the moment decision last week to head over that way for a wander around. We were there relatively early and whilst it was still pretty quiet. […]
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Macro photography with Sigma 105mm f2.8 More images, almost all of insects taken in the garden using the Sigma 105mm f2.8 macro lens mounted on a Canon EOS 90D. Picture gallery Clicking on any of the images below will open a picture gallery that you can click or scroll through.
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August visit to Burton Mere Wetlands – RSPB Reserve This was our second visit to the RSPB wetlands site at Burton Mere, our previous visit there was a couple of months ago back in June. As I have written a few words in an earlier post about the site and following our June visit I […]
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Macro photography and trying to get the light right I have said many times, that getting the light right with macro photography is one of the critical elements to getting a decent picture, and that applies whether using natural light or artificial light. Of course getting the light right is at the heart of all […]
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Goldfinch in the garden – a pretty and colourful bird The goldfinch is certainly a pretty and colourful bird, we now have a few that are regular visitors to our garden and two or three of them seem to visit several times a day on most days of the week. A quick search on this […]
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Macro photography in the garden with the Sigma 105mm I have continued to spend a bit of time practising my macro photography with the aim of improving my understanding of the intricacies and techniques with a view to taking decent pictures. It’s not at all easy, in the picture gallery below are my most recent […]
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