Office Inspiration

Ever find yourself looking for photography inspiration?

When you can't think of what to photograph just look around you - the inspiration is there - you just have to SEE it! It doesn't always jump out at you, you have to experiment and take a risk.

Lately my macro lens has been inspriring me to try looking at normal objects differently. I brought my camera to work with my yesterday because I planned to go to the park after work (which I did).

I was changing the lens to get the camera during my lunch so I could be ready for macro shooting after work and I decided that I would play around taking a few macro shots at my desk. Well, it turned into a whole series... "around the office" (or shall I say Cubicle!)

Macros of My Backyard

I got outside after work today for a little while today before the sun went down to practice my macro photography with my fairly new Nikon 105mm VR and I took the following series of photos below with the lens (lens info & reviews found at the bottom of the post).

Before I got started I noticed a little friend peering through the fence at me. It's my dog's "girlfriend" Taffy. They run up and down the fenceline canoodling anytime they are both out at the same time which cracks me up. I quickly fired off a shot of her with the Macro lens. I think it came out pretty sharp! I printed a copy to give to my neighbors. :)







Now don't be gossed out but Lucas was my sidekick on my backyard adventure tonight...and I was trying to get his cute nose but ended up with this while he was yawning...I wasn't going to share...but I just had to:



Then I became infatuated by this rusty nail in my tree...

It was the hard to get this thing in focus how I wanted...





More rust...and the strangest DOF...







and then I got into some textures:



















The 105mm lens is great!

Buythom.com had a very thorough review of the lens that I found exremely helpful and helped me to really understand the use of the lens.

Nikon Micro 105mm VR Sample Gallery on Pbase.com.

DPReview site gives a full overview of the lens.

YAY for snow!

For some reason I'm really excited that it's snowing. Don't ask me why...I just am!

Nothing special photographically - I took these out my back door through the window so the quality isn't perfect but I wanted to capture the snow.

I may get out later and take a ride and capture some photos of the snowy day...let's see if I can actually bring myself to get all bundled up and go out in the cold!!















And some of Lucas playing in the snow! Happy joy for him!!

















And time to dry off! :)



After Lucas had fun in the snow I went outside on my own with my new Nikon 105mm AF-S VR f/2.8G IF-ED lens and shot the following shots.

Each of them are obviously water droplets but what I was so enthralled with today were the reflections in the water droplets.

I had very hard time hand holding the macros while trying to auto-focus. I was insistent on trying anyway because I didn't want to lug the tripod outside in the snow with the rainy mist that was falling and the overall slushy conditions. So, I did the best I could with the photo taken conditions.

Branches reflected:



Tree branches reflected:



The houses across the street and branches reflected:



Two windows on the front of my house reflected:



I took so many more but the focus wasn't there were I wanted.

To view my macro gallery click here: http://jenweaverphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/2753011_Fmygy/1/257568739_zcMjm