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by georgedingwall
Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:20 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Violet Ground Beetle - Face to Face
Replies: 4
Views: 17016

with that kind of setup (macro lens. 2x teleconverter, and some extension tubes) I can't imagine how close you are to get the detail in this shot. I used a couple extension tubes on my 50mm prime lens to take a picture of a flower petal (Petal's Edge in this forum) and my lens is practically sittin...
by georgedingwall
Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:11 pm
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Violet Ground Beetle - Face to Face
Replies: 4
Views: 17016

Violet Ground Beetle - Face to Face

Hi All, I decided to have another look my beetle today and settled on going in tight on the head. I used a different setup for this shot. I changed to my Nikon 105mm macro lens fitted with a X2 teleconverter and two sets of closeup tubes. This image is a composite of 7 images done in Helicon Focus 4...
by georgedingwall
Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:23 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violaceus)
Replies: 6
Views: 20188

Hi Carl, The only downside to this approach is a live bug would rarely cooperate enough to take a lot of shots of it but I see the appeal for macro objects that don't move a lot. Thanks for the description George. I think there are enough bugs in the world that a few will not be missed to enable thi...
by georgedingwall
Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:07 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violaceus)
Replies: 6
Views: 20188

Hi Carl, Boy he sure looks mean. Hate to meat him in a dark alley. You said the image was created from 13 stacked images. did you take 13 pics or something with different DOF settings? Can you explain this a bit more and why you would do this? I set up the camera with the closest point of the beetle...
by georgedingwall
Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:40 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violaceus)
Replies: 6
Views: 20188

Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violaceus)

Hi there, I found this dead beetle outside my backdoor last night. It is about 1 inch long. The small white objects stuck to it look like eggs under the microscope, but they might also be fungal spores. It's made from a stack of 13 images using the new version of Helicon Focus V4. This version seems...
by georgedingwall
Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:59 pm
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Need Help to ID a Beetle
Replies: 2
Views: 4445

Hi Rik,

Thanks for the thoughts on my beetle.

I'll check out those links you gave.

I've ordered a couple of books on British insects from Amazon UK. The reviews were encouraging, so maybe I'll learn a bit of basic knowledge on how to ID insects.

Bye for now.
by georgedingwall
Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:02 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Need Help to ID a Beetle
Replies: 2
Views: 4445

Need Help to ID a Beetle

Hi all, I took this image of a beetle in my garden this morning, and would appreciate any help to identify it. It was approx 10mm long from the tip of the antennae. I tried browsing through Bugguide.net bit couldn't see anything like it. The trouble for me is not knowing the basics of identifying in...
by georgedingwall
Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:14 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Ready - Set - Go
Replies: 4
Views: 6351

Hi Tom, Hi ya' George, :D I don't know what kind of fly this is, either, but you made a beaut of an image of it. I, too, think you handled the noise well in this ISO 800 image. Cool :!: :D :D I use an action set I found on the internet for noise reduction, and it seems to be as good as any I have tr...
by georgedingwall
Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:07 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Ready - Set - Go
Replies: 4
Views: 6351

Hi Ken, That is some high shutter speed though and with an ISO of 800 you only had to do a little NR! :D This is the first time I have have tried the High Speed Focal Plane Sync options on my D200 and SB800 flash. I usually use a monopod or tripod for this type of shot, but it can be frustrating try...
by georgedingwall
Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:32 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Ready - Set - Go
Replies: 4
Views: 6351

Ready - Set - Go

Hi All, I shot this nice image this afternoon of an unknown fly, (at least to me) It was basking on a Hornbeam leaf in my garden. The image is a crop of about 50% of the full size image from my D200. It looks to me as if it's waiting for the starting gun at the beginning of a race. http://www.george...
by georgedingwall
Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:06 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Two Flies and Snail From My Garden
Replies: 3
Views: 4415

Two Flies and Snail From My Garden

Hi All, I had a total system failre on Friday, and had to re-format my hard drives and do a full system rebuild. I didn't lose anything as I keep 2 full backups and a disk image. I was getting so stressed out with it, I grabbed my camera and had a walk round the garden and took these images. It help...
by georgedingwall
Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:14 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Up-dating Links In Previous Posts.
Replies: 4
Views: 14757

Hi all, Having just moved my website to a new host yesterday, I find today that my old site is unreachable for some reason. I've reported to tech support, but history tells me they wont be in a hurry. Anyway, I went through most of my posts and updated the links so that they now point to my new site...
by georgedingwall
Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:17 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Up-dating Links In Previous Posts.
Replies: 4
Views: 14757

Hi there,

Thanks for the advice.

It'll probably be easier just to leave the old site up. It is freespace from my broadband provider, so as long as I have the account, the space will be there.

I'll just use the new host from now on and stop updating the old one.

Bye for now.
by georgedingwall
Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:33 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Up-dating Links In Previous Posts.
Replies: 4
Views: 14757

Up-dating Links In Previous Posts.

Hi all, I've been struggling to keep my free website space within the limit allowed by my ISP, but I seem to be doing more photography these days, and it's inevitable that I will excede the limit. So I've gone to a commercial web host and now have a site that will not run out of space - for a while ...
by georgedingwall
Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:30 am
Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
Topic: Possibly the world's worst setscrew...
Replies: 4
Views: 10676

Mike said: Wonder how they got it in there in the first place! :? Hi there, I might be able to help there. Around 30 years ago I used to moonlight as a lathe operator in an electrical manufacturing plant. One of the jobs I had to do was to cut threads on a high speed lathe. Occassionally things go ...