I'm that guy here at the Hog who usually likes to do a lot of "Morphography" (search 'ergoedbo' to see some samples!) But I always like to try something different along the way of image discovery, so I recently bought a Micro NIKKOR 40mm macro lens to try out some shooting with my Nikon D5100 in the 'tiny world' around us.
I've included copies of my initial Macro attempts here, and would certainly appreciate any & all comments, or even brutally honest critiques of them, from the great 'hog crew' who continues to amaze me with their many fantastic photographic ideas & new perspectives!

Crab Spider Kills a Bee


Little Yellow Spidey


Rainbow Wings


Wet Color Riot


Colorful Insect on a Daisy

Thanks much, DJ!

Searching for the "not-so-obvious" with the camera, and then making it into something obviously wacky is great fun for me, and keeps my 66-year old mind sharp, too. :)

Thanks for your kind compliment. One of the reasons I bought my Nikon D5100 was its extreme available ISO shooting range. Many things I like to shoot are low light situations. For the D5100, ISO 6400 is child's play.. it can shoot much higher range ISOs than than. It even features a Night Mode that can get you an image (B&W, and grainy, but still an acceptable image) at a ridiculous ISO of 102,400! That was no typo.. ISO 102,400!! Along with its 16.2MP, Expeed2 processor, reticulating color view screen, etc., and using the Nikkor 18-200mm lens, well, it's simply the very best danged camera I've ever owned for the sheer variety of the wild kinds of shots that I like to shoot!
BTW, if you haven't seen them yet, you might get a kick out of seeing some of my other stuff done with that D5100. They're posted in the Photo Gallery under the subject MORPHOGRAPHY (or just search postings by ergoedbo)

Thanks DJ. And you're right on the money. Out of sheer "non-tripod desperation", I boosted my Nikon's ISO to 6400, and then afterwards, washed away much of the resulting noise using Adobe Lightroom. I did one or two other minor retouches to enhance the contrast, etc. But mostly I was just very grateful simply to have been able to capture some acceptable images of that rare Super Moon event!

At the end of a recent fishing trip up to Erie, my buddy & I realized that the impending Super Moon was going to be rising that evening, and I wasn't going to be able to capture it as I had originally planned to. All I had along with me that day was my Nikon, but NO tripod :(
Even so, we decided to stay until the moonrise, and to attempt to capture at least a few acceptable shots, if at all possible. These images were taken from a Presque Isle beach, using the Old North Pier Lighthouse as the main foreground subject. And even though everything I shot was totally handheld, I was happy enough with the uniqueness of my final moon/lighthouse images. I do hope that others had some better, tripod-assisted luck with their "moon-shots".

North Pier Lighthouse 3


North Pier Lighthouse 4


North Pier Lighthouse 5


North Pier Lighthouse 6


North Pier Lighthouse 7


North Pier Lighthouse 8

I really enjoy seeing things that I shoot through a different sort of perspective. My background in graphics helps me to go a little further and take some cool liberties with 'reality'. The result is something I've taken to calling MORPHOGRAPHY.. modifying the image to make it into something very different & unusual. Every time I head out with my Nikon these days, I try to look for things that aren't obviously there, but can be, eventually! I'm still in the learning process, but am having the time of my photographic life while I play around with my images. Here is an assortment of my creations that I hope generates some fun, amusement, fright..whatever!! Let's start to look at our world in a different way!

The Bark Nymph


Eye In The Sky


Flower Clown


MushMan


Olde Tree Face


Shroom Stares


Sinister Mushrooms


Squid Log


The Hidden


The Trunk Monster


Happy Tree Ogre

Thanks for your very kind remarks, Danilo. I never much 'studied' others who liked to manipulate images. I always was impressed whenever I'd see a photo that made me react with a "how'd they do that?" or "what the heck IS that?". So now, my camera & I look at everything around me in a very different light, challenging me to create something that maybe hasn't been seen before. I then just let my imagination & computer post-production do the rest!

Hi everyone. The name's Ed (my screen name is ergoedbo) and I recently joined the Hedgehog site. Looks like a great bunch of folks here, with many new & fresh ideas about photography. I've had tons of cameras during my life, and was a Naval Photographer during the Vietnam War. Now in my retirement years, I've discovered the wonder of digital photo manipulation on the PC, and have made it my main hobby among my other outdoors ones. I've reduced my 'stable' of many cameras down to one fantastic tool for what I like to do, my Nikon D5100 with its 18-200mm Nikkor Zoom lens. Here are a few samples of shots I've created..I love having folks do a double-take when they look at my work :)
I've posted a number of others I've done in the Photo Gallery here, under the title of "Morphing" Nature's Images. I'd very much appreciate any comments and/or critiques. Thanks!

TreeBark Nymph


The Hidden


Flower Clown

Thank for everyone's very kind comments! Glad to hear that some of my creations evoked some long lost memories!
Relatively inexpensive Adobe Lightroom software has allowed me to also convert some very badly lit shots into pleasing ones, as you can see below.

Old North Church Edited


Clarion Sunset Edited

With my background in graphics, digital photography has given me some great new 'paint' for my imagination's pallette. Using Corel PhotoPaint & Adobe LightRoom software, I've been often able to create 'something out of nothing', or take already great digital captures and make them even better. Many shots I've taken needed little or no enhancing, and many others turned out much better with a little digital TLC. I hope you enjoy some of these samples of things I've tried to do so far with my Nikon D5100!

Bark Nymph


Aerial Ice


Sinister Shrooms


Evening Road


Erie Beach Radience


Flower Clown


Fly Eye


Woodland Stream


Sunnyside Farms


Squid Log


The Hidden