by shanemcd | Aug 20, 2013 | Wildlife Photography
Flower and Bees – Patience in Photography Summer is a great time to take photographs of flowers, wildlife, butterflies and other insects (if that’s something which interests you) and I noticed that there was a lot of activity among a set of red flowers. I decided to try to get the bees approaching the flowers […]
Tags: A Little Patience, Bee in Mid Air, Bee on Flower, Bees, Bees in Mid Air, Bees on Flower, Canon 24-105, DOF, Flower, Flowers, High Shutter Speed, INsects, Mid Air, Patience in Photography, Photo of Bees, Summer, Summer Photography, Wasps
by shanemcd | Sep 22, 2011 | Photo of the Week, Wildlife Photography |
My First Fox Photo I have always been fascinated by how covert foxes can be, I once came across one in Manor Street in Waterford at 2am one night on the way home from a night out (no camera of course), but had not seen one up close since then. Having picked up a loan […]
Tags: 200mm Lens, Canon L Lens, Canon L Series Lens, DOF, Fox, Fox Photo, L Lens, Photo of a Fox, Photo of the Week, Picture of a Fox, POTW, Vixen, Young Fox
by shanemcd | Aug 9, 2011 | Photography & Camera Settings |
Tags: A, A Mode, Aperture, Aperture Priority, Aperture Priority Mode, Backgrounds Blurry, Blur, Blur Background, Blur Backgrounds, Blur the Background, Blurry Background, Blurry Backgrounds, Depth of Field, Depth of Focus, DOF, DOF Examples, Examples of Depth of Field, Examples of DOF, F-Stop, f/1.8, f/11, f/5.6, Professional Photographers, Wider Aperture
by shanemcd | Apr 14, 2011 | Landscape Photography
Spring is a great time for any photographer. Lots of colour, variety of textures, and nice light in the spring mornings and evenings. Some Spring mornings have a mist of fog which can be nice to take photos during – however I was not lucky enough to be out and about while these mists were […]
Tags: Daffodils, DOF, Fern, Flowers, Photo of the Week, POTW, Spring, Spring Flowers, Tree, Tree Stump, Woodlands, Woods
by shanemcd | Mar 6, 2011 | Photography & Camera Settings
Sometimes when taking a photograph you don’t want your background to be focus as you might want the foreground. Normally you will want your subject to be in focus and the background to be either slightly out of focus or very out of focus. In order to do this you need to take control of […]
Tags: Aperture, Aperture F11, Aperture F2.8, Aperture F22, Aperture F4, Aperture Priority, Aperture Priority Mode, Blurred Background, Blurry Background, Bokeh, Depth of Field, DOF, f Stops, f/value, Focus, IS, Which f-stop makes Background most blurry
