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- Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:20 am
- Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
- Topic: Violet Ground Beetle - Face to Face
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17061
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...
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:11 pm
- Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
- Topic: Violet Ground Beetle - Face to Face
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17061
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...
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:23 am
- Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
- Topic: Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violaceus)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 20259
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...
- Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:07 am
- Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
- Topic: Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violaceus)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 20259
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...
- Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:40 am
- Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
- Topic: Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violaceus)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 20259
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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
- Topic: Up-dating Links In Previous Posts.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14807
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...
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
- Topic: Up-dating Links In Previous Posts.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14807
- Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
- Topic: Up-dating Links In Previous Posts.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14807
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 ...
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:30 am
- Forum: Macro and Close-up Photography Gallery
- Topic: Possibly the world's worst setscrew...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10702
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 ...