I played with colour and light, and upped the black intensity in combination with getting as close as I could to the palm leaf.
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I’ve mentioned before that we have a few croton plants in our garden. I love them – they’re colourful and interesting to look at, methinks, and even lovelier after a good rain. 
I hope you enjoy looking at my crotons as much as I have.
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This is a papaya leaf from the volunteer papaya tree growing in our front yard. We still don’t know whether it’s a boy plant, a girl plant, or a bisexual/hermaphrodite plant.
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I’ve had a LOT of chameleon visitors lately. Is it something in the water? Some kind of karma? A hint that I need to keep taking photos of them until I get it right? Did they lay eggs somewhere in our garden?
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A few days ago, I wrote about a water drop experiment and showed the resulting images. If you’re interested in playing with water drop photography, read this link – it’ll explain one way it can be done. Well, no, at least a couple or three given the subsequent contributions in the thread…
Since my images turned out rather more, ah, abstract as opposed to nice and crisp, I redid the experiment. This time, I used green food colouring for kicks and giggles.
These are some of my results.
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Today’s photo is of the front door of our house.
I ran across a weekly themed photographic challenge over at Spain Daily through my friend Lynn Rutz’s photoblog, and I’m hoping they’ll let me play. This week’s theme is Front Door. Hence… my front door…
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I know, I know – not a barbie. But every time I try to think “Contortionist Squirrel”, it comes out as “Contortionist Barbie”. Sue me.
Yup, squirrels hang out a lot around our house. They hang a lot around the entire neighborhood. Since they’re fun to watch, I tend to not mind. And since they don’t cause any bad behavior as long as they don’t come inside – which they haven’t with this house *knocks on wood* – I’m pretty much fine with them.
This one, today, was climbing all over the tree, upside down, sideways, just having a good ol’ time. So naturally, I photographed him.
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This is some of the loose change that’s been hanging around.
We have coins from Canada, the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka (of course), and who knows where else. It just… finds its way here…
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Nikon D90, 105mm focal length, 1/125 sec at f/5.6, ISO 3200, no flash
There’s a tutorial over at Digital Photography School, which is, by the way, a cool photographic website, on water droplet photography. If you’re interested in playing with photography or looking at pretty and interesting photos, I seriously suggest you take a gander through that thread.
I didn’t do my setup the same way the guy in the thread did his. Instead of using a coloured plate below a glass dish for color and a piece of coloured paper for the background, my setup is this:
I put my cutting board over the sink, a glass pie plate on the cutting board, and added food colouring to the water in the pie plate so I wouldn’t have to worry about a nonexistent coloured plate. Seemed simpler.
I also did this underneath the tap so I could use the tap to provide the water rather than setting up something else to dribble.
I played around with the angles a bit, and ended up shooting the water droplets with the open window behind the setup. That also meant that I ended up with the jambu tree outside reflecting in the water, providing the greenish yellow colouring in the pictures.
It was difficult to get the water drops in focus – my kitchen is not very bright, much to my dismay. On the other hand, it was enough fun that this is something I’ll definitely do again. 
It’ll be interesting to see how future experiments end up. 
My favourite is the last picture. No, none of the photos are crisp like the majority of the images in the thread I mentioned above, but I especially like the abstract feel, to me anyway, of the last picture in particular.
Nikon D90, 105mm focal length, 1/100 sec at f/5.6, ISO 3200, no flash
Nikon D90, 105mm focal length, 1/30 sec at f/5.6, ISO 3200, no flash
What do you think?
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Redo. 1/10 sec at f/5.6, 85mm focal length, ISO 3200, no flash.
I posted a photograph of the doorknob to our front door in a previous post. Gardenwife commented that she was not “crazy about the use of flash, though. It kind of flattens it all.”
The first photograph – above – is a redo with no use of flash. The following photograph is what she was commenting on.
Original. 1/60 sec at f/5.6, 105mm focal length, ISO 800, flash.
My question to you, dear readers – how do the two photographs compare in your opinion?
Personally, I’m inclined to agree that the photo needed a redo, and I like the second better. I photographed it under better lighting conditions – earlier in the day, more sunlight coming into the house.
Unfortunately, I can not compare the originals of both photos since the original .nef file from the original photowas lost in the Great Apple Fiasco of 2010, which is a much longer story. All I have left of that photo is the finished version.
So. What do you think?
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