Photo's from around home

[NQLD_Newby]

Some more photo's. I've been playing with processing/composition etc. Hope you enjoy.

[jjjnettie]

Excellent photo of the Wasps Nest. How did you get so close and not get attacked?
What is the plant in the first photo? I've never seen one before, I don't think.

[joshman]

haha, i second jjj's questions and add one of my own...

what are the technical specs of these photos? (camera, lens, shutter speed, aperture, iso, etc)

[NQLD_Newby]

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Thanks jeanette. I just zoomed in as much as I could, and moved very slowly. The plant is actually just a spear of grass seeds.



josh these are my first photo's posted which were taken with a new olympus E-410 with the standard zuicko 14-42 mm lense.

All my posted photo's so far are with a point and shoot, and i started out playing with existing photo's from that camera because i haven't seen the sky in so long. The funny thing is I'm having a great time, so I looked around and the Oly seemed a good starting pount. Now i just have to learn how to use it properly. Overall I am happy with these two, I have many more but haven't had a chance to play with the composition of them yet. The details of the photo's follow.

Wasp - Oly E-410, ISO-100, 14-42MM @ 42mm, 1/80sec @ f/8. No post processing and is not a crop. Simply added border and resized for here.

Grass seeds - Oly E-410, ISO-200, 14-42MM @ 26MM, 1/50sec @ f/8. This photo is a crop (the original showed the whole grass spear) of original to get the composition that I liked) and some levels, and contrast/brightness adjustment in paint shop pro.

At the moment I am not really trying to get the exact technical side of things down right, I am concentrating on composition and playing with the processing side of things. I didn't do anything to the wasp photo because everything I did looked worse than the original. I didn't state the details when I posted because I posted them from work and I don't have the camera programme on my work computer. Next time i will make sure i have them, for when i post.

[joshman]

awesome work, keep it up! next thing you know, you'll be in getting photo's printed, and have people telling you how awesome they are (happened to me the other day :D)