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Bill Pador > Happy Thursday folks, Here's another rain drop image I shot while being bored out of my mind. The SB-900 lit the scene using high sync @ 1/800 sec. & it's -7' downward tilt function which is really handy for close ups, just be sure to take your lens hood off or you'll get a nice little shadow on your image LOL (lesson learned for me :) I used my Tamron 90mm Macro for this one and there is very little post on this besides a Standard Levels adjustment & keyline frame. It's hand held and shows a reflection of the thron bush from yesterday's image and some great bokeh. ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "Rain Brings Life" Good afternoon everyone, the tests with the SB-900 are going well and I am having a blast with it. Hopefully I'll have the full review done in a few days for your reading pleasure. I took this shot yesterday while being bored out of my mind. So I decided to sit outside in the cold damp rain on my front porch shooting some bird shots when I noticed my thorn bush presenting some cool water images. So I broke out the Tamron 90mm Macro and started playing with some off camera flash. I have a bunch more images to go through but figured I'd post one for today's POD. I really liked the way the thorn was encased by the water drop and the reflection of the bush behind it coming through and the new flower poking out of the branch drinking up the water for life (hence the title). I'll put the other shots in my EXTRAS gallery in a little while and add a link here for viewing. Today's weather is again cold damp & cloudy but the rain has held off so far. April showers bringing May flowers stinks but the beauty it brings will be worth it in the end I guess. Enjoy your day folks ! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "Spread Your Wings & Fly" Good evening folks, today was not a good day for me pain wise and really didn't think I was going to be able to come through with a fresh image. But I decided to play around with some macro captures to try and take my mind off being uncomfortable since macro photography takes a lot of concentration in order to get the detail & DOF right. I roamed the house for a while trying to find something fresh that I haven't shot yet to no avail, so I headed outside into my car, everything I shot looked bad to me so I headed back inside then my little buddy 'Oreo' helped me find this very small feather hidden in a dried flower arrangement I have by the front door by rubbing against it and drawing my attention to it LOL I opened the front door for some natural light and used the bronze door plate as my background to reflect the multi-colored bushes I have out front into the lens which caused the funky colors you see here. The feather is VERY small, about the thickness of a pencil so I got up CLOSE about 3" away and started dialing in the focus hand held. I should have grabbed my tripod but I just wasn't thinking clearly. I shot a dozen frames and headed into Lightroom 2 to see what I had. To my surprise I had a few with decent detail and great DOF so I processed the RAW file then slid over to CS3 for some final touches. I hit it with a small dose of NIK Color Efex BRILLIANT & WARM filter to bring the background colors up a bit, a small dose of sharpening and then gave it the edge frame with OnOne Pro Frames to give it some outside life so the eye would be drawn towards the in focus part of the feather. The title comes from me wanting to Spread My Wings & Fly Away because I wasn't feeling well. I am doing a little better now but still not too happy so I just took my night pill and plan on laying down for a bit and catching up on some TV programs I have recorded. I'll try to catch up on today's comments in the morning so have wonderful Thursday everyone, may it be a prosperous one for all of you ! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > A Rusty old railroad spike that held some interesting rust patterns & color to it, it's actually a pretty small spike around 5" long and about 1" around but by using a low angle shot and getting within 2" of the lens glass and 1:1 magnification and great Bokeh of the backdrop it looks huge.
Bill Pador > Your looking at a small Sneaker PLANTER for this capture. I saw some very interesting color combinations in this one so I shot it Using a close up Tamron macro low angle shot and then some creative photoshop work enabling me to create a cross between an Oil Painting and a Pastel look. Just another example of the many uses of the Tamron 90mm Macro lens!
Bill Pador > This WATER WALL is actually a small table top fountain that changes light every second. Shot in Macro from a distance of about 3" from the floor up gives this shot a look of a REAL "BIG" Water Wall you might find in a office building lobby. This is straight out of the camera with no post production work what so ever! Pretty neat huh ?
Bill Pador > A naturally lit leaf catching the sunlight in mid morning sun through my front window, hey I can't come up with great shots EVERYDAY ya know LOL I just liked the colors with this one having that slight red leaf above and a dash of yellow below.
Bill Pador > This shot caught my eye because of the suns reflection causing the slight shadowing off the wall giving it an abstract look & feel. No photoshop work done here, the colors were created just by throwing the White Balance off using a custom warm setting around 5500k. The rear wall is actually pink in real life. This was shot with the Tamron 90mm Macro Di f/2.8 glass
Bill Pador > OK so today finding an interesting subject for my daily photo came down to this colorful clown sitting on my best friends shelf. Once again the Tamron 90mm Macro lens "Bokeh" shines through on this shot boosting amazing DOF (Depth of Field) allowing me to blur the entire background along with SOME of the clowns leg but allowing some of it to be clear. I'm really enjoying this lens!
Happy Thursday folks, Here's another rain drop image I shot while being bored out of my mind. The SB-900 lit the scene using high sync @ 1/800 sec. & it's -7' downward tilt function which is really handy for close ups, just be sure to take your lens hood off or you'll get a nice little shadow on your image LOL (lesson learned for me :) I used my Tamron 90mm Macro for this one and there is very little post on this besides a Standard Levels adjustment & keyline frame. It's hand held and shows a reflection of the thron bush from yesterday's image and some great bokeh.

~Bill~
Bill Pador > Happy Thursday folks, Here's another rain drop image I shot while being bored out of my mind. The SB-900 lit the scene using high sync @ 1/800 sec. & it's -7' downward tilt function which is really handy for close ups, just be sure to take your lens hood off or you'll get a nice little shadow on your image LOL (lesson learned for me :) I used my Tamron 90mm Macro for this one and there is very little post on this besides a Standard Levels adjustment & keyline frame. It's hand held and shows a reflection of the thron bush from yesterday's image and some great bokeh. ~Bill~
Happy Thursday folks, Here's another rain drop image I shot while being bored out of my mind. The SB-900 lit the scene using high sync @ 1/800 sec. & it's -7' downward tilt function which is really handy for close ups, just be sure to take your lens hood off or you'll get a nice little shadow on your image LOL (lesson learned for me :) I used my Tamron 90mm Macro for this one and there is very little post on this besides a Standard Levels adjustment & keyline frame. It's hand held and shows a reflection of the thron bush from yesterday's image and some great bokeh.

~Bill~
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