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Macro, pseudo HDR, Bee

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Bee

This photo was taken with a macro lens. A macro lens is designed to take pictures of small objects close up. You’d need a linguist to tell you why it isn’t called a micro-lens.

This photo is a pseudo-HDR, rather than combining three separate images, I just tonemap one image. You don’t get as much dynamic range, but in full sun, that doesn’t really matter.

There were also humming birds around. However, they eluded me for the most part and I didn’t get any good pictures of nature’s helicopter.

So while I wanted to get a picture of both the birds and the bees. I had to settle with the bees.

Oh well, the hummingbirds will be back next year.

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Altgeld Hall at Night

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Altgeld Hall – University of Illinois

I think buildings, particularly when properly lit up, are more appealing and mysterious at night.

You walk around a campus or city during the day, and everything is just kinda there.

Out in the open.

Plain and boring.

Come back at night, and it’s a different place, shrouded in secrecy and intrigue.

The imagination is more at liberty to envision conspiracy, hidden plots and subterfuge.

That’s how my mind wanders anyway.

I’ve heard there are tunnels connecting most of the buildings on the University of Illinois campus. I’ve dreamed of exploring them ever since I heard about these subterranean passages, so if anyone has the means of providing a tour, I would jump at the chance!

Double Sunset

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Photo of Opportunity

I look around for new shots whenever I go for a walk, visit a place or drive around.

I pulled off the interstate to explore an abandoned barn–more on that in a previous post–and ended up finding a great opportunity with the sunset over this farm pond.

I just need a mountain and I’d be set. I don’t think Illinois will oblige me though.

One of the basic formulas of photography goes like this:

Sunset + Water = Good Photo

Another formula, that builds on the above:

Sunset + Water + Mountain = Great Photo

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