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by gunn
Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:48 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: The biggest, baddest Desert Spiny Lizard I ever saw...!
Replies: 5
Views: 8003

hi Tom very good catch. never seen such a lizard before. australia has its fair share of sand and desert though not around adelaide. the 300 + the 2X TC must have allowed you to shoot at quite a distance from the lizard i guess. also, i was wondering what was the magnification factor of the combinat...
by gunn
Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:00 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Rare Flower
Replies: 6
Views: 7434

hi there my most observant friends. indeed that was a very tiny worm; worming its way up the flower rather labouriously. it was probably two mm long and the flower was probably three inches long.

and yeah Tom, what i meant was that these flowers are rarely seen.

regards
gunn
by gunn
Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:37 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Rare Flower
Replies: 6
Views: 7434

Rare Flower

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both shot with the 20D/100f2.8 at f8. the flower seemed to have bloomed out of the plant's trunk. not sure if it was a palm or a ginger plant.
by gunn
Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:56 pm
Forum: Community Members and Friends
Topic: Got my new Canon EOS 1Ds MkII today... :)
Replies: 8
Views: 20102

Hi Tom I see you're on an equipment-rampage-phase at the moment. :lol: 300/f2.8L and all. Well, I've been using the 20 for almost two years now. I should say I prefer it to the XT because it has an AF cross-sensor in the centre which the XT does not. I find this cross-sensor very helpful in low-ligh...
by gunn
Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:16 pm
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Love Bug Acrobatics
Replies: 6
Views: 7183

yeah beetleman, I've heard that you have a lot of em love bugs in florida. and yeah, the one here in these images looks 'aerodynamic' because of the shallow dof, its own position on the edge of the weed, and the angle at which it was shot. thanks ken. yeah, the background is rather clean. in PS, I d...
by gunn
Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:26 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Love Bug Acrobatics
Replies: 6
Views: 7183

Love Bug Acrobatics

I have been away far too long ... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/gunn67/june06/IMG_0348-800.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/gunn67/june06/IMG_0349-800copy.jpg both shot at 1/250 and f8. 20D + 100/f2.8 these two images have 800 pixels on the longest side. i do hope they are in line...
by gunn
Sun May 14, 2006 1:17 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Pregnant Ant
Replies: 7
Views: 6590

Thanks guys. I had taken up to a hunderd images of the ant in a span of two weeks. I had also uploaded a few on a free web server. Unfortunately, I have used up my quota of three images for this thread, so all I can do is to provide a direct link to the images on the free server. Hope this doesn't i...
by gunn
Sat May 13, 2006 11:05 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Pregnant Ant
Replies: 7
Views: 6590

Pregnant Ant

First time that I came across this ant which has a green coloured abdomen and a red/brown upper body. The distended tummy shows that it was pregnant. And indeed it was. Shot around a flower pot. (It spun some protective web on a broken pot and laid about ten white, elongated eggs which hatched in tw...
by gunn
Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:53 pm
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Macro with a twist, not so techie (digital manipulation)
Replies: 6
Views: 8411

woaw danny

whatever you did to whatever that was -- it was right.

beautiful, and that was all that mattered at the end of the day, be it a macro of an insect or of life in general.

warmest regards
gunn
by gunn
Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:52 pm
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: DF and BF portraits
Replies: 3
Views: 4236

DF and BF portraits

Hi there. I'm back with insects this time. Kind of like the clean background for the DF. The lighting for the BF might be a bit harsh though. I passed the images through Elements' NR. Do they appear artificially clean? Regards Gunn http://www.photomacrography1.net/images/IMG_7174-650.jpg 20D/100mm h...
by gunn
Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:11 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Orange at Birth
Replies: 4
Views: 4988

oops, these images of the monkeys aren't exactly considered macros within the strict definition of the term. i have been so advised by the admin staff. the logical thing to do would be to remove them without further ado. thanks again to Rik who took the trouble to analyse the pics and discussed them...
by gunn
Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:05 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Orange at Birth
Replies: 4
Views: 4988

Hi there Rik Thanks for your thoughts and the response. For me, it was more of a case of "not knowing what went right," assuming it did go right. The details you pointed out are certainly food for thought, at least as far as I am concerned. I tried out you suggestion of removing the artificial catch...
by gunn
Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:40 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Orange at Birth
Replies: 4
Views: 4988

Orange at Birth

Hi guys, it's been a while. This one is not our usual dose of 1:1 insect-macro. It's a silver-leaf monkey. Interestingly, they are orange at birth but gradually turn very dark towards adulthood. These images are more of a close-up than the traditional macros we have been accustomed to in this region...
by gunn
Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:15 pm
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: A Rare Butterfly
Replies: 8
Views: 9727

hi rick and ken

thanks for stopping by here. what can i do to distinguish the face from the background. i'm so bad with photoshop. thanks again.

warmest regards
gunn
by gunn
Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:23 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: A Rare Butterfly
Replies: 8
Views: 9727

A Rare Butterfly

A seldom seen butterfly, shot just last week. 20D/100mm, 1/180, f.8, iso100, 580ex, diffusers.

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regards
gunn