This is a continuation of my initial experimentation with in-camera multiple-exposure images.
To be continued,
Ken
Multiple Exposure Fall – Part 2
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Multiple Exposure Fall – Part 1
In addition to experimentation with a fisheye lens this fall, I also dabbled with in camera multiple exposure techniques, which offers many possibilities. My results were mixed, ranging from images that I liked to those that were total failures. It appears that I have much to learn about this photographic technique and I will continue working this.
I used only two images and an average of the pixels for all of these images, as that seemed to be a reasonable and simple starting point. More images can be used and there are other options of how the images are combined in camera.
In this series, I will share the images that I think worthy, even if some are not so appealing.
Before I ventured out for an intensive photo shoot, I began by making simple images around our cabin.
I began with the simplest of images, such as the one above with horizontal and vertical images.
Then I began to incorporate ICM (intentional Camera Movement) in at least one of the images.
Sometimes, I just moved the camera a little between shots, to get such images as Multiplying Leaves and Picasso Forest.
Another technique is to shoot the same scene with the first shot a simple, sharply focused image, then completely defocusing the image to a complete blur for the second image. I had most difficulty with this method, but still got a few good images.
The yellow and brown color around these leaves is created by the fully unfocused image of these leaves.
More multiple exposures to follow,
Ken
Road Trip Diversion
My wife and I made a road trip from our Indiana cabin lodging to Madison, Indiana, during our traditional fall stay in Indiana.
Madison is a picturesque, small city in Southern Indiana. There are a number of enticing antique and craft venues, favorite shopping for my wife, in Madison. A river runs through the area and one of the larger antique markets is located within sight of the river, maybe a block or two away, with open areas between that venue and the river and the park along the river. This provides me with an opportunity to walk around by the riverside, while my wife shops.
There were many of these trees with their red/yellow fall foliage along the streets and in the yards of homes in Madison and many fallen leaves beneath the trees and in the streets. This is probably a mundane fall event for those in this part of the country, but rare for one from Texas.
We were here a couple of days before Halloween. I noted natural features in the trees along the riverside that would make good Halloween photos. I captured images of a number of these features, but did not get the images processed in time for a Halloween post.
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Ken
Fish Walk 2 – A Fall Photo Hike with a Fisheye Lens – Part 3
This is the final part of my fall photo hike series with images shot with a fisheye lens.
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Ken
Fish Walk 2 – A Fall Photo Hike with a Fisheye Lens – Part 2
This is a continuation of my second fall photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
Fish Walk 2 – A Fall Photo Hike with a Fisheye Lens – Part 1
In the fall of 2024, I began to experiment with using a 16mm fisheye lens for forest photography. This blog series contains images from my second woodland hike with this lens.
The old, mossy log in this image gets its curved shape from the fisheye lens, making it appear to be embracing the small tree with its yellow leaves of fall.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – Leaf Clusters on Trees
I published a two part series on this topic on Substack, kenkemp650.substack.com. This post contains selected photos from the Substack series.
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Ken
Hanging Leaves Part 2
This is a continuation of my photography of 2024 fall leaves that have been arrested on their way to the ground, hanging tenuously onto some natural object.
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Ken
Special Edition – Defending our National Parks and Public Lands
Trump and Musk Take Aim at the National Parks and Public Lands
Is indiscriminate firing of park service employees, forest service employees, and others that manage our public lands a first step at destroying our public parks and public lands?
It sure looks that way. Trump and the far right have made no secret of wanting to scale back our public lands and fully open them to commercial development.
There are many U.S. citizens, regardless of their politics, that love our public lands and great National Parks. Many spend much time camping, hiking and exploring the wilderness areas that this nation has protected and conserved. These lands and parks are national treasures set aside for a reason. But Trump and his people only think in terms of how much money they can make by exploiting those lands.
Here are a few examples of the current chaos being created by Musk’s unwarranted, indiscriminate firing of the people that manage our precious public lands:
The only locksmith at Yosemite NP fired. He is the only one available to rescue a visitor that gets locked in a public restroom in the park or let people get back into their rental room in the park, if they lock themselves out. The only one with keys to all of the secure places (federal court, administrative buildings, toilets, closets, gun safes, …) in this very large (about the size of Rhode Island) park and the knowledge to maintain the many locks and the keys in the park facilities.
The wait time at the Grand Canyon NP entrance doubled over a weekend, due to the firing of four employees that worked the entrance gate. The gate where 90% of the 5 million annual visitors enter the park.
Reservations were canceled for stays in historic farmhouses in Gettysburg National Military Park, after the staff there was gutted.
Employees working to replace a pipeline, built in the 1960s and subject to frequent failures, in Grand Canyon NP were fired. This pipeline supplies water for shower and laundry facilities.
A ranger at Effigy Mounds National Park, who helped teach elementary and middle school science students about our public lands and the natural world, was fired.
The Park Service was already understaffed before these Trump/Musk firings. The Park Service workforce had already declined by 15% since 2010, while park visitation has increased by 16% over that same time period. I have noted the effects of the understaffing and undermaintained facilities in some of my visits to a number of National Parks over the past few years. The effects of the current firings of critical staff are already evident and the peak season for visitors is not here yet.
Glacier NP can have 30,000 visitors in one day. That is about half the size of a typical Taylor Swift concert. There is no way to handle that many visitors each day with a greatly reduced staff.
We cannot allow our public parks and lands to be trashed.
Please protest these unwarranted moves toward destruction of our most precious lands with your congressional representative and Senators.
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – Hanging Leaves – Part 1
I’m always amazed at how falling fall leaves are caught, often in a tenuous manner, by something on their way to the ground. This series of posts is dedicated to images of such hanging leaves.
Stay tuned for Hanging Leaves Part 2,
Ken