Warner Schmidt Photography

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What is it? May 10, 2011 Answer

I previously asked, what is this image:

My Kitchen Table

It’s my kitchen table!

To the naked eye, this table appears to be perfectly smooth and unscathed…upon closer inspection however, quite the opposite appears to be true!

Thanks for adding your comment or guess! I look forward to your feedback on my next ‘What is it?’ post!

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What is it?

Can you guess what it is?

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Leave a comment with your answer!

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What is it? April 15, 2011 Answer

I previously asked, what is this image:

backpack bottom

It’s the bottom of one of my backpacks. Some of the black rubber dots have fallen off, as you can tell.

Good luck guessing next time!

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What is it?

mam

You tell me…by leaving a comment!

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What is it? 04.06.11 Answer

I previously asked, what is this image:

keep trying...

It’s a macro image of broccoli! I’d rather eat it than photograph it, that’s for sure!

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What is it?

Can you tell what it is?

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If you can’t get it, I’ll post the answer in a while.

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Intro To Macro

A handful of the photography accessories I’ve recently acquired are very useful for macro photography. Although I’ve not had a chance to experiment much, here’s a photo.

strawberry

This one’s pretty obvious…it’s a strawberry!

Every now and then, I’ll start posting random images and have you guess!

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New Photography Toys

My wonderful girlfriend ordered a few photography toys I had on my Amazon wishlist. They’ve arrived and I’ve been playing with them ever since.

I now have a set of diopter filters, a special lens adapter, and a nice rubber hood for one of my lenses. The diopter filters allow me to focus objects much closer to the lens. In addition, I have a special adapter which can change the focal length or allow me to use two lenses at once. The lens hood provides both protection to the end of my lens and increased ability to block unwanted light sources.

All of the accesories are very nice…but the adapter and diopter filters do take some getting used to. With a diopter filter on my 70-300mm lens, I can focus objects just inches from the lens. While this is an incredible perspective for macro photography, the focal length must be accurate to the millimeter (if not even finer than that). The difference between focused and unfocused areas of an image is astonishing and dramatic. In many cases, the unfocused areas are so blurry that they are indistinguishable; an effect that allows me to bring out singular details.

In using these accessories, I’ve found that having a low level tripod is increasingly important. Hopefully I’ll find something on Amazon!

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