donbenderphotography

Beach Weeds

Canon EOS 80D

settings

Aperture 10/1 ISO 400 Shutter 1/80 Focal Length 100/1

location

Mackinaw City, Michigan, US

upload_date

Aug, 2022

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Awards

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken at a small park in Cross Village, Michigan, a tiny coastal town that sits at one end of an amazing Michigan state highway called the "tunnel of trees."

Time

This was taken just before golden hour at around 8:15 pm.

Lighting

The lighting was all ambient, and the sun was somewhat in and out from behind the clouds.

Equipment

Shot with my Canon 80D and Tokina atx-i 100mm macro lens. ISO400, f/10, and 1/80s exposure; -1 stop of exposure compensation was used while in Aperture Priority.

Inspiration

My wife and I had visited this tiny park to do some rock hunting, and as we were finishing up I noticed these flowers along the edge of the parking lot. I'd been taking a lot of landscape images that day, and decided to take some macro shots.

Editing

Yes, I used Topaz Labs Denoise AI to remove the small amount of noise present, and used Topaz Sharpen AI as well. Final edits were done in LuminarAI.

In my camera bag

I typically carry my Canon 80D with five lenses (Canon 50mm f/1.8, 10-18mm wide angle zoom, 18-55mm zoom, and 55-250mm zoom, and Tokina 100mm macro prime lens). I also have my Haida M10 pro filter holder with a 10-stop ND and 3-stop GND filter and circular polarizer. Of course, I always have my standard accessories like spare batteries, lens hoods, memory cards, etc., and I carry a Godox V860-II speedlight with MagMod Sphere & MagBeam flash modifiers with color gels and gobos.

Feedback

My advice is always simple...soak up everything about where you are, and feel the story that starts to reveal itself about your subject and your surroundings. I'm always amazed that eventually a compelling story begins to emerge, and my job then becomes how best to capture that story. Sometimes that's easy to do, sometimes it's damn hard, and sometimes I'm not able to do it at all. It's those times that I just enjoy the story and the moment, and then later it drives me to get better at my craft so in the future I can perhaps succeed.

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Beach Weeds

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