calevphoto on June 19th, 2008

OK, I promise that I’ll get back to some good old fashioned bugs soon, but I thought I would post some more flowers.  Last weekend at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens I played around with daisies.  I took all of these shots with my 180L but without a tripod.  Instead I used my MT-24EX mounted on [...]

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calevphoto on June 17th, 2008

Recently I have started listening to the photo critiques at RadiantVista.  For those of you not familiar with this site, it is an excellent source of information and composition and Photoshop and on top of that it is free.  Currently my use of Photoshop is limited to changing contrast/shadows and converting from RAW to [...]

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calevphoto on June 10th, 2008

While taking pictures of insects yesterday at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens, I noticed that they had lots of pretty things on the plants that sometimes the bugs would crawl on.  As most of you know, I spend most of my macro efforts taking pictures of insects, but the major reason for that until recently has [...]

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