Lakeshore Park

I was taking a ride today and I had my camera in my car. I suddenly thought, hey, I really want to do wildlife photography. Well I didn't have hours to hike into the woods and wait for a deer or bird to come by. So I thought, how is the easiest way to do this? Then I quickly remembered Laskeshore Park. Its a park located on the Ross Barnett resevoir. The sun wasn't exactly giving me "Jesus Light" but it's all good. I'm happy with what I came home with. Enjoy.

Creative Solutions: Reflectors

Reflectors are cheap, around 8-16$ but if you can't find one around your town or need something quick, try this creative solution. Get some card or card board or if you don't happen to have that, grab about 10 sheets of copy paper, enough to make it thick.

(1)If you're using copy paper, first tape those sheets together.

(2) get tin foil and take it out, try not to crease as much as you can, this can make crazy lighting (though feel free to play with that) and just tape it on to the front side.

(3) you're done with the reflector. Now go out and learn how to use it. A reflector will open up tons of new lighting possibilities for you.
As you see below, I have a set up for some macro photography. I couldn't use a flash straight on because the barrel of my lens made a shadow. So I used an off camera flash and angled it at my reflector. I was able to really bring out the color of my orange.

Creativs Solutions: Macro

Macro Photography is an exciting and pleasing technique. Now its hard to take true macro pictures without a real macro lens. But those can cost upwards of 500$. For most beginners, that's not reasonable. Well what I did and currently do, get a magnifying glass and hold it infront of your lens. Now you can only focus in within 6-7 inches of your subject so you can't focus to something 5 feet away but then again, you're doing macro work.

Look at these to pictures. They were taken with a 18-55mm Nikon DX Kit lens. I see my focal mm to 35. These are the results.


Again, the picture shown on the left was as close as I could get while staying in focus. And the second image is at the same 35mm but I could get extremely close.