I was in a sort of stuck in place mode for the week, so I had been looking for opportunities in my MIL’s yard. One morning I woke to a heavy fog, lots of heat and humidity too. I hustled outside and began shooting all kinds of things. I did not have to wait for my camera to adjust to the outside environment because her house is kept quite warm! For me, the emotion I evoked in my images that day was awe of Mother Nature. I had several I was thankful to capture. This was taken of a portion of a 6-inch square board that holds an old, large wind chime. These tiny lichens were hard to see without the extension tubes on my lens. (I believe they are Cladonia cristatella, commonly known as British Soldier Lichen.) ISO 400, f/7.1, 1/15 sec, tripod. Basic LR edits, cropped a slice off the bottom to remove a partial nail head, some spot healing in PS to remove two small wisps of spider web.
Heavy fog in the morning, hot and humid. LR adjustments include dehaze and sliver of crop on right to remove a little edge of the house, PS spot healing tool to remove a small piece of brick from the house and a piece of insect caught in the web. ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/15 sec. Tripod and extenstion tubes.
I really liked the last image Ricky shared with us in this lesson. I knew I had taken photographs of an antique clock I have so wanted to try using one of them to mimic that. I took tons of photos as we travelled back home this week. Once I started editing I chose to duplicate a single leaf and give it the B&W dreamscape treatment we used last week. I thought the duplicated leaf image took on the shape of a pair of angel wings. Maybe I was just staring at the screen too long! The leaf image was taken during sunrise using ISO 200, f/11, 1/400 sec, handheld. I used the invert option on the clock face layer and adjusted both the shadows/highlights and the brightness/contrast levels on the final image.
