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Quarantine 5 – 2020 Clematis Blooms

Clematis flower blooming in the back yard ©TimeLine Media
Clematis flower blooming in the back yard ©TimeLine Media

Falls Church, VA

As can be seen in my 2020 Clematis flowers, my garden is growing beautifully this year! This is despite my very limited knowledge on how to grow anything out of the ground. When the blooms start to come out in Spring, I usually get a few photos. However, the quarantine keeping us at home gives me a new subjects to test some lighting setups.

Macro image of Clematis bloom with extra lighting ©TimeLine Media
Macro image of Clematis bloom with extra lighting ©TimeLine Media
Setup of camera and off camera flashes in the back garden ©TimeLine Media
Setup of camera and off camera flashes in the back garden ©TimeLine Media

During this shoot, I used my camera with two speedlight flashes. Although you see two speedlights here, only one was actually adding light to the photos. One was only used as a trigger for the off camera flash. While moving the lights around, I found that the small lights were nice to control what parts of the flowers were illuminated. After each photo, I could move either the flash or the camera with very slight movements. It produced a large set of varied images! I felt it was a productive way to spend a lock-down afternoon.

Newly opening 2020 Clematis flower ©TimeLine Media
Newly opening 2020 Clematis flower ©TimeLine Media
Flower bloom with some added sprayed water ©TimeLine Media
Flower bloom with some added sprayed water ©TimeLine Media
Lady bug on a clematis flower ©TimeLine Media
Lady bug on a clematis flower ©TimeLine Media

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2017 May Flowers

Home Gardens

Since it is almost June, I wanted to look back at some 2017 May flowers. Once the April showers end, these pop up right out of the ground. Well, mostly. In this case, I found some flowers blooming in my uncle’s garden. For practice, I brought out a lens that I rarely use. In fact, the 50mm F/1.2 lens was purchased by my father! Due to an unchanging mount on Nikon cameras, it can still be used on my current digital camera. However, it is manual focus only. I do not have much experience without using auto focus technology, so this is an added challenge for me. Surely, I will keep this kind of experimentation to personal projects only. I will have to devote much more time to practice before I can take this lens on a client shoot. Of course, this wide open aperture really makes for some nice out-of-focus areas behind the main subjects.

2017 May Flowers in my uncle's garden ©TimeLine Media
2017 May Flowers in my uncle's garden ©TimeLine Media
2017 May Flowers in my uncle's garden ©TimeLine Media
2017 May Flowers in my uncle’s garden ©TimeLine Media

McKee Beshers

Additionally, we took a trip last summer to the McKee Beshers Wildlife Management Area near Poolesville, Maryland. This year we were a bit late in getting to the sunflower fields. When we arrived, many of the flowers were already half full of petals. What are your favorite Springtime flower locations? What else do you photograph for personal projects these days?

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Busy Monday

This last weekend was very busy for TimeLine Media! There have been so many hits to the website which I was expecting with the expiring events. We know it was a busy weekend in the northern Virginia area for ballroom dancers as they competed at the Virginia State Dancesport Championships in Reston, VA. I have enjoyed seeing everyone’s images of the great dancing! We were busy with our own photography projects out of town, but you will have to wait to see our results from that on the blog – there are some great images, and I am excited to share those soon.

Baltimore-Dancesport-Challenge-©TimeLine-Media
Baltimore-Dancesport-Challenge-©TimeLine-Media

As a reminder, the Baltimore Dancesport Challenge photos expire today. They will no longer be viewable on the website, and it will take some time to get them out of the archive after they are removed. Thanks to all the participants that visited the website, and purchased photos from this event!

Bug-on-a-lily-©TimeLine-Media
Bug-on-a-lily-©TimeLine-Media

I need to get back to putting in orders and editing photos, so this will not be a big post. If you were following me on Twitter or Instagram, you may have noticed a new camera in the feed. Last week was the official launch date for the new Nikon D810 camera. I was lucky enough to get a copy from my local camera store, and I was eager to make some test images. So, I went out to a small lily patch in the side yard.

Bug-on-a-lily-©TimeLine-Media
Bug-on-a-lily-©TimeLine-Media

Luckily, there was someone else on the shoot that I really did not see until after I zoomed in! The very high megapixel count of this camera allowed me to see this lawn big so clearly! I immediately grabbed a macro lens to see how close I could get to this guy. He made it a fun shoot, and a perfect setting to test some new gear.

Bug-on-a-lily-©TimeLine-Media
Bug-on-a-lily-©TimeLine-Media

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