What does it mean to be an artist – Is there a job description?
This is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I have been a bit distracted though as since I got better I’ve been trying to spend as much time out in the […]
Silent Sunday – Looking back at flowers from Alowyn Gardens
I’ve been busy experimenting with some stuff, but it isn’t ready to share with you yet, so I need some more time. I also have the photos I took along the coast to process, so […]
Antiquing with ON1 Photo Raw 2023 – macro flowers
I was trying to work out what to do today for some editing and then I thought why don’t I just put one of my macro photos into ON1 Photo Raw 2023 and see what happens. […]
Silent Sunday – More of the macro from 2014
Also, some other macro that isn’t flowers. Happy Sunday.
Using a manual again – Lensbaby Velvet 56
I have talked about the Velvet 56 from Lensbaby before and for macro, it is one of my favourite lenses. You can achieve a lot with it, but at the same time, you also have […]
Flowers from Alowyn Gardens – Processed with Lightroom
Here we are with the first video tutorial for the year. This week we are looking at processing some macro flowers in Lightroom Classic. It is my first one using Lightroom. I was asked if […]
Christmas and birthday presents – Some are better than others
Well, I was a very lucky girl at Christmas and look what Santa left me. Did you guess it was a macro lens? This is the Fujifilm XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro Lens. […]
Peonies – Processing with ON
Today I thought we might look at processing a macro flower, especially after showing all the ones yesterday. I decided to do it with ON1 Photo Raw 2023, but I am still learning to use […]
Silent Sunday – My macro magic
These are some of the photos I would show people at the start of a macro class so they could see what was possible.
Silent Sunday – Flowers from the garden
A little of the beauty that is in my garden. Happy Sunday.
Spring is in the air – flowers are blooming in the garden
Spring is here in Melbourne and it has been so nice going out into the garden to see what is flowering. I planted lots of bulbs and have done my best to make sure I […]
Experimenting with freezing flowers
The other morning when I was taking some photos one of the flowers I was photographing fell off. I thought perhaps this was time to try freezing some flowers to photograph.
The latest Instagram photos
I thought it might be nice to share once again all the photos that I have put up on my Instagram page, leanne_macro.
Looking at old gear
The Fujifilm macro lens is going back this week and I have to get back to using my old gear for macro photography. One of the things that has been hanging around for a few […]
Right now it is all about the garden
Spring has sprung and it is full speed ahead for the garden getting it ready for summer.
Winter in the Garden
It has been so cold around here and we have had so many frosts. It is surprising that anything is growing, but growing it is.