Captains log: 14 April 2020 - in the year of covid19 Lockdown

I am preparing for some macro photography ( or should i rather say micro photography) as well as the new season for Milky Way photography here in the northern hemisphere. 2 extremes.

i have done a few elementary Milky way shots and are exploring the finer techniques of stacking multiple shots ~ 400 or so to get very sharp images just using my std camera with a optical filter to cut the light pollution from the cities. Maybe the Nebula bug will bite me and then i need to go over to Telescope equipment.

For the macro’s during this lockdown period i want to experiment with a specific style that i have not seen before, just to give a different perspective of things. I will try the traditional insects and flowers but that is to common. Im exploring some ways to shoot micro mechanics and microarchitecture

Getting low cost extension tubes this week to kick off the exploration

Signing off till next time

Some feedback from the Fstoppers Landscape forum


Chris Jablonski

Thanks for the info, Marius. I'm pleased to hear that you were portraying what you saw, rather than invented. The world is a beautiful place as is.

Often digital photographers' attempts to improve on it have the opposite effect for me. (Of course, this is a separate issue from the fact that a RAW file is often nothing like what we saw.) I'm so used to seeing the Orton effect and others that I assumed you'd probably done this. I find it interesting that your adjustments in clarity, contrast and dehaze are in the OPPOSITE direction to what I'd have expected.

Clearly you haven't contrived, but captured and conveyed the reality to us. Well done! Hope to see more from you. It's hard to believe you've only been at this seriously for such a short time.

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