photos in your feed

Looking at photographs is one of the most important things you can do to advance your talent in photography. So since I waste a lot of time maintaining my social presence on the internet with certain networking sites starting with a lower case f, I thought it best to try to incorporate this as much as I can into my hours of useless perusement. Online galleries tapped into this valuable resource long ago and use the 'news feed' to send out updates on works they are exhibiting or featuring. What I see is in between my friends sometimes-interesting-but-mostly-benign status updates a barrage of images show up. Some so-so, some not my bag, some fantastic. Depends on the sites. For my interest I have found the following:

these are great;

Flak Photo

American Suburb X

these are ok;

seen.by photography

the photography post

urbanautica

I'm always on the lookout so if anyone knows any good ones, please comment.

posted by f/action member Duncan McNairnay

Bokeh of Stars!

I saw this once on another blog and wanted to try it out.

Using this...

To create this....

Simple, but took a few tries:

-I needed to use a 100mm lens to avoid vignetting

-also I had to shoot on shutter priority, and my meter only sort of worked.

-then I had to focus in manual and hold the cap up in front of my lens, not very practical in most situations, still with a little patience....

posted by f/action member Duncan McNairnay