So, so wrong

in so many different ways...

Impossible Babe of the Day.

Do we go with the political? Having a 'babe of the day' at all?
The technical? That photoshopping is appalling - her back would break and her shadow actually has a stomach.
Back to the political? What on earth are we telling women and girls about how they should look?
Back to the technical? What the hell happened?

Gah!

Macro

Very excitingly, I got a macro lens (Nikon 60Mm F2.8D Af Micro Nikkor Lens), and have since been photographing anything and everything with it.

Yesterday I was waiting for a bus and spotted some woods over the road (I do love Sheffield, to be in a big city and just randomly come across some woods), so I went in and got a million leaf, flower, tree bark photos with the macro lens. There are still more to upload!



The top photo is a dead leaf hanging from a tree branch. I love the clarity of the leaf's shapes and patterns, and the fab bokeh. The second of these photos is another dead leaf, with a fly and its shadow clearly visible. Again I like the bokeh, and the detail of the fly and the veins of the leaf.

Same Photo, Different Treatments

I started with this image:

and followed two different tutorials on it, both already tried and tested on this blog.

Firstly, it got the lomo treatment, the second of the two I tried.



Then I gave it the Orton treatment, which is my favourite of the two experiments.



PS.