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R0032829 as flower

R0032827 as flower

A video of bugs shot mostly in Australia with macro.
I’ve been collecting these little clips of insects for a while now. Suddenly had enough to string together into a short video with a bit of music to keep the pace up.
Mostly glitch with a bit of Hiphop (all done with Acid.)
Featured are a lady bug, a Weta from New Zealand, two beetles (one green and the other iridescent,) and my finger.

These two are all about the differing textures of the leaves.

Leaf texture two

Leaf texture one

I captured these images using the Ricoh’s RAW format, which conforms to Adobe's DNG format.

Nice! None of this waiting around for Photoshop to have camera specific loaders released, or needing a manufactures conversion program.
Just load the image straight in.

These shots of leaves are all about texture and tone.

Drop leaf

Drop leaf two

As you can see, I’m a Macro fan.
I finally have a grasp of the aperture/shutter relationship function.
The really nice thing bout the Ricoh is how the shutter and Aperture are controlled with the dial and lever controls on the top of the camera.

Cone two

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Cone one

Upon completing a two day camera class, I walked down to the local park and put my new knowledge to work.
These shots were taken with my Ricoh GX100.

Atomic pink

Atomic orange

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Off the train and straight to the tourist info booth (have I mentioned how really organised the tourist biz is in N.Z?) and made the sort of request that I really hate… ‘Can you find me somewhere to stay that is interesting?’
We spent five minutes working out what she thought I meant by ‘interesting.’

A booking was made and I walked along the esplanade past a bay full of crystal clear water, right to the edge of town. The address I was looking for was an old pub perched almost on the right hand tip of the bay.

This was the view from the beer garden…

Pubview_Panorama1

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Simple old world accommodation upstairs, and really decent food in the restaurant down stairs. It had been bought and renovated by a guy who used to work for a huge motel chain but he had decided that he wanted to do something more personal and something he could call his own.
I hate the carbon copy hotel rooms that have spread across the planet following along behind the MacDonald’s plague and this place felt really comfortable.
There was an old fashioned breakfast room where I got to meet other people staying in the hotel. Spent the day tramping around the coast and evening scoffing great food and drink.

These are a few of the photos that I snapped and they are dedicated to all the geologists out there ;-)