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Snail

kweide — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 06:20:54 +0000

Back home from a trip full of impressions and tons of new pictures. Exhausted, tired. Taking the last steps from the car into the house. The camera bag over the shoulder. Happy to be home again. But suddenly a colored spot. Small and to my right. I decided to stop and to look a bit closer. A snail, a very small one. About 1.5 cm long slides beside my way. Okay, i think, here comes the macro. Just threw the M.Zuiko 60 onto my E-M1 and snapped the pictures right away. Exhausted or not…

Arg, it should be a focus stack but that damned snail is moving, slow but fast enough to prevent a stack. I tried different apertures and their effects on sharpness and bokeh. Well here you see the little guy with f2.8 and a wonderful creamy bokeh

The flow of water

kweide — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:57:17 +0000

Go to your local dealer and invest some small money into ND filter. 2x, 3x and 4x ND filter are best. I took them for my wide angel lens and was lucky enough to see that the filter size matches 3 other lenses as well :). If you are smart you will take larger diameter filters and use a step-down adapter ring :) Just a tip. Now stack them together and dial down your aperture to, lets say 16 or even 22. Mount your cam on a sturdy tripod and the next river is your landscape model. Best results are with very long exposure times. 15 to 30 seconds in my case. And do not forget to dial down your ISO to the lowest value ! And now have fun

Olympus E-M5, M.Zuiko 12 mm, 3 ND Filters stacked together, sturdy tripod, 2 second anti shock