PHOTOS PLEASE

[shaft]

Pro tip, point the camera in the direction of the shot you want to take.

lol

[Doombrain]

Apart from i knew what it did and expressed that in my post.

[ForM]

This behemoth of a moth was laying on top of one of my bird houses. Tho I prodded it and it tried to crawl away, I believe being under direct sunlight meant it was on it's way to Candy Land.

Do not know its type and it was about an inch long. No tubes but did do a 3 shot focus stack. 60 mm Macro with a Canon XTi.

[ForM]

Porch lites bring an abundance of flying insects during warmer weather months as you all know. If you can stand the onslaught of bugs flying into you, you can see an odd assortment and often pretty night time visitors.

I'm no moth expert,...........so don't ask what it is.

Right out of the camera except for rotation and slight crop to get rid of all the extra outside wall matter and resizing down to 1024x, non tubed and no focus stacking, about an inch long.

[tnf]

What software does the focal stacking? You are taking images at slightly different focal lengths to get as much of the moths as possible in focus, right? I can visualize how the individual shots would have slightly different areas sharper than others, but I don't know how you would go about doing the stacking after that...

[ForM]

I only use slightly different focal lengths when my hand or camera moves. If I am on a tripod, I only move the focal area which I did with my last crab spider shot.

Currently I am using a program called CombineZM. It is free and very useful for the macro community at large. Google it. There is a new one out but I have not taken the time to try it, but from the results of one of my mentors, the claim is to be slightly better than CombineZM, tho it seems to have a problem with x y z factoring.

If you did Download and wished to learn how to manually stack perfect or near perfect focus stacks, I would suggest this link.
http://www.wonderfulphotos.com/articles ... _stacking/

It still depends on your use of Photo software to bring it to the best as you see it, or want others to see it.

[ForM]

A return to porch lights and the critters they bring.

A Hunter of the flying type.

Green Tree Frog, 1/2" long. Veracious in its eating habits. Sadly I missed all of its meals.

[tnf]

Saw him bring 2 fish back to the nest today, catch one. She ate them, he didn't have one bite, then he'd take the carcass when she was done and drop it on the side of the river.

[werldhed]

Nothing great... just playing around.

[Doombrain]

they look like cells

[werldhed]

They are cells.

[Doombrain]

i told you.

[Bacon]

My mom took this, forget when, thought it was funny



also,



she said it's a baby dragonfly

[Dr_Watson]

[img]

beagles always look like they need a zoloft.

[tnf]

[Dark Metal]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26385124@N ... 460325606/

Here's a few from my recent camping trip. Can't be bothered to link them individually. I have a ton more but have not uploaded them, these are just highlights.

[ForM]

My mom took this,


she said it's a baby dragonfly

It's actually a Damselfly.......Dragonfly's wings go straight out whereas Damselfly's wings fold back.

[tnf]

Experimenting with using off-camera lighting - grabbed a pepper out of the refrigerator as I thought the colors would work for the practice.

[tnf]

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

tnf your stuff has been consistently great. I love that pepper.

[tnf]

Thanks puff. The first time I ever used an SLR was last December, but I've taken so many damn pictures (over 11,000) that it feels like a few years have gone by since then, especially when I factor in all the books, articles, advice, questions, answers, etc., that I've read since that time as well. Just glad I am learning this with digital and not film or it would be even more cost-prohibitive.

[ForM]

Your last bird pics are of a Great Blue Heron. Tracking a bird in flight is very difficult. Nice try. Heal the blown out spots in the pepper shot and you would have a grand shot of one. Just saying....



This moth, one of which I have never seen before reminded me of War, Batman and Vampires. It was on the side of a Bird house thats almost complete and ready to mount on a post in the back yard, but still sitting on my deck next to the house.
No tubes and very little Post processing (despeckle only). 60 mm Macro.




Close up........

[tnf]

Your last bird pics are of a Great Blue Heron. Tracking a bird in flight is very difficult. Nice try. Heal the blown out spots in the pepper shot and you would have a grand shot of one. Just saying....

Yea, I knew there was a heron nest nearby so I went with the hopes of finding one. The only other bird with a really long beak I've shot around here is a flock of white pelicans. Those pics were taken with minimal setup - I saw the bird flying along the river as I pulled up, so I had to park, get out, and run downstream until I had an angle to shoot - I was happy enough with how they turned out consider the circumstances. I don't think they are complete failures as shot.

And I'll be working on avoiding blow outs in future shots. That is the first time I'd used the lights I bought (cheap work lights at home depot), I was more concerned with angles and distances from the subject at the time. Blow outs will be something I'm working on in my next attempt.

[xer0s]

He's got shit on his eyeball. ForM, your bug collection is awesome.

[tnf]

Form do you have that macro ring flash setup?