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Bill Pador > "I Love My Job" This was an interesting shot for me, more of a great accident or event I should say. While I was outside shooting some wild flowers I have around my mail box I was hand holding with my Tamron 90mm macro on this flower & waiting for the wind to stop blowing. Just as I started cranking off a few shots this bumble bee landed right in the middle of the flower I was shooting to do his job and I was amazed that I was able to capture him pretty much in focus without moving a muscle LOL. PP consists of a crop, some unsharp mask and the custom vignette I made to flow with the shape of the flower to give it some depth & to draw your attention to the bee and all the pollen he's covered in especially that huge blob of it towards his back leg. Have a great day everyone, it's almost Friday ! ~Bill~
Bill Pador > Good Morning all - I had gone outside to shoot some of the flowers in my garden before mother nature takes them away for the fall so I wondered over to my wild flower bed and started shooting these and low & behold I saw this LITTLE TINY (and I mean TINY - size of an pencil eraser head tip) Single Spider (on Right) sitting on the pedal. Well I started to frame it up and by the time I started to shoot he had moved up the middle and I started to witness a war between these 2 fellows. I don't know where the other one came from but he appeared and BAM they stared at each other for 10 seconds or so and then started battling. It was over in 5 seconds and the left one high tailed it off to another flower. I racked off about 30 frames in about 4 seconds and this is the only one that came out focused in the proper area because of the narrow f/stop I was using to get some good bokeh. I just love this lens! * * / / Check it out at X3LARGE size to see the spiders face up close the eyes & nose can be seen pretty freaky \ \* * Not much PP here, a slight bit of unsharp mask and the framing was all that was needed. So I'm glad I was able to hand hold this puppy and get a good enough exposure to share with you today. Thanks for all the wonderful comments on the Badge image from yesterday, that was a fun shot for me to take. SPECS: Tamron 90mm SP Di f/2.8 1:1 Macro ISO: 640 SS: 1/640 f/7.1 Hand Held ~Bill~
Bill Pador > I really loved the Lilies I shot today so I wanted to creat a Montage from this flower So `I stuck it here inmy DAILY EXTRAS gallery. The Original image can be SEEN HERE in my Regular Daily Gallery. Thanks for looking ~Bill~
Bill Pador > "MIDNIGHT LILLY" -Looks Great Enlarged- I Shot this Lilly tonight at my best friends house, The original was a beautiful image itself but I wanted to do something a little different then the usual FLOWER Image. So off I went into CS3 to work a little of my magic. I did most of the post using Nik Color Efex 3 filters by first bringing a grad filter into play, followed by some contrast adjustments and then a Midnight filter to give it the look of being shot late at night. Then a small amount of unsharp mask & then finished with a purple colored circular frame which I blended into the corners ever so slightly to highlight just the corners and enhance the end of the pedals and then enlarged the canvas with the square frame colors. *(Be sure to click on the image to enlargen it)* This is NOT a macro image but was actually shot with my Nikkor 18-200 VR lens since i didn't have my macro with me. It was shot hand held using: Nikon D300 LENS: Nikkor 18-200mm VR Shutter Speed 1/200 AP- f/20 ISO 1000 Focal Length 112mm Standing about 4' away from the bush and shot from an angle below the flower upwards. I'm so Happy the way this turned out I think it will be going in my Portfolio, What do you think? ~Thanks for looking - Bill~ *If you like this image please hover over it and click ion the THUMBS UP icon so it becomes a Popular Photo on my site!
Bill Pador > This little guy was so busy pollinating flowers this morning I just had to document his efforts. The weather was very overcast and needing to set my f/stop quite high for a crisp depth of field I resorted to using my on board flash. To soften the light so it wasn't so harsh doing a close macro shot I used rear curtain flash set to -1.7 flash compensation which enabled me to capture a nice crisp image with good depth of field and contrast on the leaves & water drops on the pedal.
Bill Pador > "OCEAN LILLY" I really like this composition of an Iris covered with water drops from the evening rain. I shot this from a low angle upwards. To me it looked similar to something you would see on an ocean reef with the small yellow & white spine like creatures that live on them and sway with the ocean tide. If you look closely there is a larger water drop embedded in the spines which spread them apart to give a more fuller effect to the flowers center. The deep colored veins that run the length of the pedal also gave this shot some nice color contrast & depth. Now I'm just waiting for an ocean creature to pop it's head out of the cave in the back LOL
Bill Pador > "Mosquito on Ice" I was photographing some Lilies in my front yard this morning after noticing that the rain last night was still sitting on the pedals. So I grabbed my Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Di 1:1 Macro lens and set up my tripod. The evening rain also brought out another pest, Mosquito's ! I was stung 5 or 6 times in less then 10 min. and was just about to call my session quits when this little fella landed on the white Lilly I was shooting. So I cranked off a few frames and this was the result. A crystal clear shot that looked like he was sitting on top of a frozen mountain. His stinger straight up in the air and something I had never noticed on these critters before, look at the 2 small Antenna's he has sticking out of his back. Pretty cool stuff and I learned something new today about this insect. I just love my Tamron lens, what a great piece of glass!
Bill Pador > "Fly Gets a Drink" While shooting my lilies this fly managed to land on this purple Lilly I was photographing to take a drink from one of the water droplets on the pedal
Bill Pador > "BEE IN FLIGHT" Catching a bee in flight while holding a macro lens with a shallow Depth of Field set is not an easy task, but I managed one here as this little hard working bee flew from one flower to the next

"I Love My Job"


This was an interesting shot for me, more of a great accident or event I should say. While I was outside shooting some wild flowers I have around my mail box I was hand holding with my Tamron 90mm macro on this flower & waiting for the wind to stop blowing. Just as I started cranking off a few shots this bumble bee landed right in the middle of the flower I was shooting to do his job and I was amazed that I was able to capture him pretty much in focus without moving a muscle LOL.

PP consists of a crop, some unsharp mask and the custom vignette I made to flow with the shape of the flower to give it some depth & to draw your attention to the bee and all the pollen he's covered in especially that huge blob of it towards his back leg.

Have a great day everyone, it's almost Friday !
~Bill~
Bill Pador > "I Love My Job" This was an interesting shot for me, more of a great accident or event I should say. While I was outside shooting some wild flowers I have around my mail box I was hand holding with my Tamron 90mm macro on this flower & waiting for the wind to stop blowing. Just as I started cranking off a few shots this bumble bee landed right in the middle of the flower I was shooting to do his job and I was amazed that I was able to capture him pretty much in focus without moving a muscle LOL. PP consists of a crop, some unsharp mask and the custom vignette I made to flow with the shape of the flower to give it some depth & to draw your attention to the bee and all the pollen he's covered in especially that huge blob of it towards his back leg. Have a great day everyone, it's almost Friday ! ~Bill~

"I Love My Job"


This was an interesting shot for me, more of a great accident or event I should say. While I was outside shooting some wild flowers I have around my mail box I was hand holding with my Tamron 90mm macro on this flower & waiting for the wind to stop blowing. Just as I started cranking off a few shots this bumble bee landed right in the middle of the flower I was shooting to do his job and I was amazed that I was able to capture him pretty much in focus without moving a muscle LOL.

PP consists of a crop, some unsharp mask and the custom vignette I made to flow with the shape of the flower to give it some depth & to draw your attention to the bee and all the pollen he's covered in especially that huge blob of it towards his back leg.

Have a great day everyone, it's almost Friday !
~Bill~
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