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    • Product Shots
      • Industrial Product Shots
      • Commercial/Retail Product Shots
    • Abandoned Gallery
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    • Graffiti-signs-wall art
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  • Barns
  • Churches
  • Museums
  • Abandoned
  • Photo Walks
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  • Photography Topics
    • Instruction
  • Featured Pictures
  • Commercial/Retail Product Shots,  macro,  Macro Photography

    Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. – 28 year retirement watch

    February 19, 2024 / No Comments

    I’ve been photographing jewelry recently because all the reflections make it quite difficult so I wanted the challenge. As I was searching for some jewelry to photograph I came upon Dad’s retirement watch from the Wallingford Steel Mill, later to become Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation. It’s about 30 years old because, I believe, he retired in 1993/1994 at the age…

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  • Commercial/Retail Product Shots,  macro,  Macro Photography

    Gold Wedding Rings

    February 16, 2024 / No Comments

      Photographed with a Nikon D7100, 24.3 APS-C camera, and a Nikon 40mm MACRO lens. 1/50th, f8, ISO 100, MANUAL MODE. (4) lights were used.  (2) Floor lights 5600K, (2) small 5600K table LED’s to bring out specular highlights in the jewels. 12 shot focus stack, helicon focus software.

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    Diamon and Gold Watch

    February 16, 2024 / No Comments

    Gold diamond watch:  Photographed with a Sony A7RII, 42 mp, full frame mirrorless camera and a Sony 90 mm f2.8 MACRO lens. 4 seconds, f11, ISO 100, MANUAL MODE. (1) 5600k flash bounced off the ceiling. 16 shot focus stack, helicon focus software.  

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    Flaming feather!

    January 9, 2024 / No Comments

    This is a close up shot of a portion of a bird feather. I snipped off the upper portion of the feather and pulled away many of the feathers along the stem to achieve this look. It was photographed in studio setting with studio lighting. I felt that feather mimicked the look of being on fire hence the name of…

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    Abstracts using household straws.

    November 5, 2023 / No Comments

    For this shot I used a cluster of multi-colored plastic drinking straws. The shot was lit with studio lights using red and blue gels which overpowered the straws natural colors rendering the image you see. This is an ultra close up of the ends of the straws. I photographed this with a Sony A7RV, 61mp mirrorless camera and a Sony…

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    Macro Close Up of Kitchen Whisk

    March 9, 2023 / No Comments

    This image began with an everyday kitchen whisk used to mix eggs and the like. I lit one side with a blue light and the other with a red light. I utilized a red/blue gel with the overhead light. I came in as close as possible to the head of the whisk with the macro lens. The resulting image is…

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