Sampling at Lake Oneida

This weekend Holly asked if I'd help her gather her experiment samples from Lake Oneida and that I take some photos for her to use. When we arrived, her experiment had been tampered with. The pvc pipe she had placed in the water with fertilizer had been removed and placed on the bank.

My camera wasn't unpacked yet before she put the pvc pipe back in the water but I took a photo of the flag as is stood for evidence. You can see the pipe in the top right.

She went on to gather her samples and I tried capturing some images without getting in the water.

I tried from the other side. There was less room to work but I thought a different perspective might be good.

For yet another angle, I backed up and got a wide shot. This one in particular was more of a test shot since I didn't want to get her backside but it might work since she's actually gathering samples here.

Here she started turning around and there is more of a side shot which I think looks better.

And finally a shot as she walks back away from the lake.

This flying insect was on her knee and it was supposedly harmless but later she found a bump in the area (coincidence?). This was shot as close as I could get with my Sigma 17-50 at 50mm and then cropped a good bit in Lr.

Here's a side shot of the bugger.

I wanted to get a shot of the eyes. I was shooting at f4.0 but I haven't done much macro work so I forget how shallow the depth of field gets when zoomed in and close to the subject. You can see clearly how the focus is on its back instead of the eyes.

A final shot of little fish eating dead skin off a foot.


As usual, check the photos on Flickr here.