The Meeting

I love the way my fisheye lens manages to squeeze so much into the frame. This was a quick shot I grabbed as I was walking into the room where a bonsai meeting I attended this weekend was being held.

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Linking up with The Weekend in Black and White and Black and White View.

Red Car

While I've been experimenting with editing some of my old photos I discovered a very simple way to do selective desaturation. It doesn't look good for every photo, but I kind of like how this one worked out.

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Linking up to Photo Friday.

Looking for Inspiration

It was never part of my plans to spend a large chunk of the day watching YouTube videos, but after stumbling across one entitled How Do I Develop My Own Style? I just got carried away as the suggestions for interesting photography videos were all so interesting.

Finally I got dragged into some really quirky stuff involving double exposures and prism use to create some really interesting effects in camera.

It was at that stage that I was reminded of this photo I took way back in 2014.

Despite appearances to the contrary, the only editing I did on this photo was a quick black and white conversion. And no, it wasn't a double exposure! I actually used a multi-image filter screwed into the front of my lens.

It's been a while since I've done anything like this, but perhaps all those videos have been the wake-up call I needed to push myself a bit harder in creating some really wacky photos.

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Linking up to Wordless Wednesday.

The Ceiling

I've been having fun playing with my fish-eye converter this week. I love the way it turns this ceiling into something almost abstract.

The World is Round

I love to show a world that is different from reality and one of my favourite ways of distorting it is using a fish-eye lens. When shooting at the sky however, lighting issues come into play and I've been playing around with this photo for a couple of days trying to get a natural looking version. Somehow I can't seem to get it quite right.

In the end, as is so often the case, I preferred the result in black and white.

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Linking up with Skywatch Friday.

The Swimming Pool

This photo was taken with a fish-eye converter on the front of my lens. No distortion was added in Photoshop.

It was a hot summer day but the sky was grey, typical of summer afternoons in Johannesburg. The weather can change from bright sunshine to heavy cloud and thunderstorms really quickly. Somehow the colour version of this photo didn't really convey the weather on that day so I went for a moody black and white conversion.

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Linking to Wednesday Water.

Red Flower, Yellow Flower

Even though photography has been one of my hobbies for more than half my life, I'm still struggling to develop my own photographic style.

One thing I particularly enjoy, however, is showing the world in a way that the human eye doesn't normally get to see it. One way of doing this is to get up close and personal to tiny things like I did in my post about "The Fly".

Another way is by choosing lenses which show a distorted picture of the world.

I don't have a fisheye lens, but I do have a fisheye adaptor which screws into the front of my lens and allows me to get up close to little things, making them appear large in the photo, while making background items appear tiny. That's how I managed to make these flowers appear larger than the trees in the background.

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This post is part of Monday Morning Yellows, Today's Flowers, Macro Monday and FloralFridayFoto.