California South Coast Tidepools

A good day out.

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California South Coast Tidepools

Just a tad north of Laguna Beach there are spectacular rocks and nice beaches. The December neap or low tides are a sight to behold for the slightly adventurous. One can just clamber out on the rocks and take it all in. Donna and I took the cameras and our macro lenses and had at it. Low tide was at high noon, so the light was a little harsh. Not too bad as the winter sun is still low enough to throw long shadows at our latitude. But ask any photographer about noon light and you’ll probably see a wince before the answer.

Way out there are the rocks with the pools.

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4 comments

Monarch Butterfly Heading to rest Mon, Dec 30, 2013 3:54:53pm

Next, you get to learn to feed the sea anemonies!

Dark_Falcon Tue, Dec 31, 2013 6:32:26am

re: #1 Dancing along the light of day

Next, you get to learn to feed the sea anemonies!

Can we feed them Shredded Wingnut Dreams?

Political Atheist Tue, Dec 31, 2013 5:43:14pm

re: #2 Dark_Falcon

Hey we don’t want to poison the water now do we?

CuriousLurker Wed, Jan 1, 2014 10:45:50am

I love the first macro! Also the one that says “Life grows upon life at sea.” Nice depth of field there. I like the new template you’re using too!

I was able to get some pretty nice macros using my 40mm prime and Canon’s 12mm extension tube. The subject, an Altoids Minis box, wasn’t nearly as interesting as your sea creatures, but the writing on it helps to see what’s sharply focused and what’s not (the depth of field is incredibly shallow).

I’m going to test it out with my 50mm and then with my two zoom lenses—the 18-55mm kit lens and the 55-250mm. I’ll set them to manual focus, then try taking a shot at the various focal lengths to see how close I need to be for a sharp image as well as how the depth of field & magnification factor is affected.

There was this video where the photographer was taking pictures of a girl standing in the middle of the street with cars parked on either side of it. As he moved & changed his focal length the cars appeared to move closer to/farther from the girl even though she’d remained in the same spot. Freaky.

It’s all quite fascinating to me. I’m especially intrigued by just how illusory much of our “reality” is. Everything we perceive is totally dependent on the mechanics of the tool we’re using to to look at & measure the world around us. Ditto for the distortion of facial features when doing portraits.

Ah, here, I found the video:

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