Tag Archives: flowers

Charleston, Landscape, OM System, What I Saw

Black Eye Suzy, And Friend

August 27, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 4 Comments

When I was growing up we called these ‘Black-eyed Suzy’. I know that’s not correct, unless you come from NYC. Then the spelling fits the pronunciation perfectly.

The main shot here also includes a rather intimidating Wasp / Bee. I don’t mind getting close if I can for a shot with them, they rarely pay me any attention.

I try to make note of photographs taken with a flash. While these have the look of flash I don’t think any was used. I tend to push exposure comp down on these flowers.

The OM-1 family of bodies was created around nature photography, wildlife in particular. I find them very comfortable and well balanced. I think if you know the camera and pick your lenses carefully they can be good in just about any genre you choose.

An example should be how Ellen was shooting this morning. I noticed her using the OM-1 mk2, and the odd Olympus 14-42 pancake lens, with the iT32 GODOX flash on wide landscape and flower shots. I hope she publishes some because that could be interesting.

Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100, Lightroom.

Black And White Photography, Film Filter, Landscape, OM System, What I Saw

Monochrome Moon Flower, Water Droplets

August 25, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 11 Comments

Whenever I want to get detailed B&W work I move over to DxO Silver Efex. The software has been around since 1995, had multiple owners, and it’s still the monochrome editor most ‘art photographers’ turn to.

Unlike just about any image editing software it was never built to be a RAW file editor. It’s a plug-in, unless you first convert the file to a tiff format.

I know a fine art photographer who can literally spend days inside the system before sending something to a gallery !!!

The image below was created with Lightroom, Topaz, and Silver Efex.

The newest version has added some masking features, but cropping, formatting and other edits are not included. If you only worked in monochrome any basic editor like FastStone would be a perfect fit.

Charleston, Film Filter, Landscape, OM System, ON1, What I Saw

Black-eyed Suzy – Old Film Filter

August 4, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 4 Comments

Suzy is having a good year. Brutal sun must agree with them.

Both photographs were finished using DxO Filmpack. I tend to bounce between multiple photo software when developing an image. It’s actually not much different than staying in a single app when they integrate correctly. No software does everything the best, so to me it makes sense having a few different tools.

People have a love/hate relationship with Lightroom (me too) but Adobe systems will play well with others. That may be part of their secret sauce, after all they do own the general market.

ON1 ‘kind of’ has decent integration. You need to figure work arounds and patience to use it though. They tend to break and change things with their updates. But like Lightroom you can work with most any file type which is required during integration.

The other photography software stop at RAW files.

Black-eyed Suzy - Old Film Filter — Black-eyed Suzy – Old Film Filter

Both photographs here were done with a combination of systems.

Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100 f4, ON1, Topaz, DxO Filmpack.

Charleston, Close-up, OM System, Small Critters, Wildlife

Bees (?) – Almost Macro

July 30, 2026 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 2 Comments

This is about as close to macro as I’m ever going to get.

These Bees (or whatever) are on Trumpet Vine flowers. Some up maybe 8 feet off the ground. We have some pretty big vines, loaded with flowers each year, and growing higher all the time.

I do my best to get open shots, usually with the lens pushed all the way. This takes practice too. I need to get much better with patience, getting more depth on focus, and finding subjects.

Best viewed large, these critters are small lol.

Bees (?) - Almost Macro — Bees (?) – Almost Macro

Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100. Finished with ON1, Topaz.

Landscape, Marsh, OM System, Swamp, What I Saw

In Passing, Camellia

January 20, 2025 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 2 Comments

We followed a path yesterday through the old plantation Camellia gardens. Some of the bushes are a bit tattered with weather and age, but they bloom almost all year long.

This was the only shot for me, but I lost Ellen several times as she could not just pass big red blooms.

No need for me to shoot lol

Birds, Heron, Marsh, OM System, Wildlife

Some Golden Light, Tricolored Heron

November 1, 2024 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

I had only a moment to catch the small heron. He was wandering the edge of a salt marsh as the tide was rising and I only noticed him when he moved back towards the reeds.

Color here was very nice, though I think at this point I started to rush my shots. As the sun comes up over the tree line the water picks up a glare and I knew that. I’ve lost some really good images right here from ‘dinking’ around with my settings last minute.

Charleston, Landscape, Swamp, What I Saw

Swamp Color

April 12, 2022 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 6 Comments

Found on a walk.

I’m sure at some point these were planted here. This property is owned by Magnolia Plantation. The previous biologist here would have fits when out walking the grounds and finding nonnative plants.