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Early morning in the garden, after last night heavy rain, I take the time to capture a bit of the tiny and beautiful life out there....
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Early morning in the garden, after last night heavy rain, I take the time to capture a bit of the tiny and beautiful life out there.
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cameraX-T20

settings Aperture f/16 ISO 2000 Shutter 1/60 Focal Length 5600/100 

locationPhnom Penh, Phnum Penh, KH

upload_dateJun, 2020

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3 Comments |
eelcovanroden PRO+
 
eelcovanroden October 26, 2020
Congratulations on your Challenge Win!
margaretgodfrey PRO
 
margaretgodfrey October 29, 2020
Great shot, congrats on people's choice :)
Pjerry
 
Pjerry January 05, 2021
Magnifique.

You have given 2020 a positive swing that is really (nice) positive, a contribution to the Year 2020 Collection. As always, the competition will be tough, which, as an added consequence, makes the victory taste very sweet. Good luck and probably for the … time: Happy New Year and stay healthy in 2021!

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#animal #insect #invertebrate #droplet #light #color #garden #macro
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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken in my garden, in Phnom Penh (Cambodia). It's just a small garden, but it's already a privilege to still have few trees and a bit of greenery around the house in this fast growing city! And despite it's small, if you look well, you can discover such beautiful things that Nature gives us to contemplate... And photography is about "looking well", isn't it?

Time

This was shot in the morning at around half past eight... late enough to have a some direct sunlight (in a urban environment), still early enough to have a fairly good quality of light.

Lighting

This picture is taken with natural light only. Morning light. At sunrise, because of the urban environment and constructions around, there's not yet direct sunlight on the garden. So there's just a quite short time-window with a still nice and quite warm light. As one can guess from the sun ray sparkling in the water droplet, the light was rather coming from behind the subject. The foliage partly filtered the light and made it softer.

Equipment

I shot with Fujifilm XT-20 and the Fujinon XF-56mm F1.2 + Fujifim MCEX-11. Camera was hand held. No flash. Despite of the low aperture (f/16), I think because of close-up focus distance and use of the MCEX-11 extension tube, the depth of field is still very shallow (bit too shallow, maybe), but I was blessed with a really beautiful bokeh on the background.

Inspiration

This shot was taken in early June which is the beginning of rainy season in Cambodia. There was quite heavy rain during the night before, but in the morning, a nice shiny sunlight on the garden. My attention was first drawn by the beautiful water drops left by the rain on the stems and leaves, shining and glittering in the morning light. It was enough for me to decide to steal a bit of time, grab my camera and capture the simple beauty of this moment. Along this tiny journey in the garden "microcosmos", I noticed weaver ants moving around on the stems, I tried my best to get an interesting composition combining the ants and the sparkles in the water droplets. And this is it.

Editing

I processed the raw file in LightRoom. I have to say that I never learned post-processing. I have a very empirical approach of photo editing in LightRoom. I fumble with the various adjustments until I get something that I find satisfying. For this shot: first it was cropped (the original picture was in landscape orientation, I cropped on both right and left sides). WB was unchanged (As shot, in auto WB mode I think), but some basic adjustments were made to increase a the contrast. I made some selective adjustment of the saturation and luminance of orange, yellow and green, and tried to sharpen the image a bit and slightly reduce noise. Then a twist of vignetting to darken a bit the corner and get more attention on the subject.

In my camera bag

FujiFilm XT-20 is my only camera at the moment. This picture was shot at home so I had everything near at hand, but otherwise, the choice of lenses to carry with me will depend on the pictures I think I may take. I have two prime lenses I really love which are the the XF-16mm-F1.4-R-WR for landscape and the XF-56mm F1.2 that I used here. Then I have two zoom lens for more versatility a XC-16-50mm and a XF55-200mm... A tripod and ND filter if I plan some long exposure landscape.

Feedback

Well, as an humble amateur and mainly self-taught photographer, I am not qualified to give any lessons, even less to get into technical recommendations. The only encouragements I can give to my peers amateur photographers is to practice, try new things in shooting and post processing, and try again, and improve progressively... and most of all, take pleasure to see the beauty around us and hopefully to capture it in your pictures!

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