Category: Photo Techniques

Thursday (18-August-2016) — New Jersey

Summertime Nature at the Sourland Mountain Preserve.

Four Images of Hummingbird Clearwing Moths at the Sourland Mountain Preserve. Images taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens.

Hummingbird Clearwing Moth and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on a Thistle Flower.. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (David J Mathre)
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on a Thistle Flower.. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (David J Mathre)
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth on a Thistle Flower. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (David J Mathre)
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth on a Thistle Flower. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (David J Mathre)
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth on a Thistle Flower. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (David J Mathre)
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth on a Thistle Flower. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (David J Mathre)
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (David J Mathre)
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (David J Mathre)

Two-Years Ago (18-August-2014) — Baltic Sea

Gone to See Europe 2014. Day 79: Semester at Sea, Summer 2014 Semester Voyage. At Sea.

Three Mast Schooner Off the Coast of Poland From the Deck of the MV Explorer.  Image taken with a Nikon Df camera and 300 mm f/2.8 VR lens (ISO 100, 300 mm, f/4, 1/3200 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC.

Three Mast Schooner Off the Coast of Poland From the Deck of the MV Explorer.  Image taken with a Nikon Df Camera and 300 mm f/2.8 VR lens (ISO 100, 300 mm, f/4, 1/3200 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC. (David J Mathre)
Three Mast Schooner Off the Coast of Poland From the Deck of the MV Explorer.  Image taken with a Nikon Df camera and 300 mm f/2.8 VR lens (ISO 100, 300 mm, f/4, 1/3200 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC. (David J Mathre)

Five-Years Ago (18-August-2011) — New Jersey

Backyard Summertime Nature in New Jersey.

Bat in Flight at Dusk.  I am looking for suggestions how to better capture images of flying bats. This image was taken with a Nikon D3s camera  and 400 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 12800, f/2.8, 1/320 sec). The bats were moving too fast and it was too dark to autofocus. So I manually set the focus for about 10 meters (~33 feet), followed the bats, and tried to press the shutter button when they were in focus.


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Six-Years Ago (18-August-2010) — California

Photography Techniques — Focus Stacking.

Grandpa Reading a Book at Bodie Ghost Town. Focus stacked composite of 32 images taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens. (ISO 100, 60 mm, f/3.2, 1/60 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Helicon Focus.

Grandpa Reading a Book at Bodie Ghost Town. Focus stacked composite of 32 images taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens. (ISO 100, 60 mm, f/3.2, 1/60 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Helicon Focus. (David J Mathre)
Grandpa Reading a Book at Bodie Ghost Town. Focus stacked composite of 32 images taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens. (ISO 100, 60 mm, f/3.2, 1/60 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Helicon Focus. (David J Mathre)

Wednesday (17-August-2016) — New Jersey

Backyard Summertime Night Sky Over New Jersey.

Night Time Thunderstorm. Two minute time-lapse video. Moon, Clouds, Lightning. Approximately 3000 Images taken between midnight and 4 AM from my backdoor using a Nikon D810A camera and 24 mm f/3.5 PC-E lens (ISO 800, 24 mm, f/4, 4 sec). At one point I had to move the camera away from the door during a heavy downpour. Time-lapse video created from the in camera jpg images using Photoshop CC. This was the fourth night in a row that we have had thunderstorms.