SOme steal shots this morning...

sulhan · 1st May 2005

Hie everyone....

Here are a couple of shots taken at the Alexandra butterfly gardens.....Hahah...none of which are butterflies...just colourful bugs....

rgds,
sulhan

photosonic · 1st May 2005

very nice, the external flash did a very good job for macro.

damithc · 1st May 2005

i like the orange one

yeah, green one is not a spider. once i had a chance to shoot one of them. shiny and alien-like at close quarters. found that they are very curious too.

cos suddenly it dissappeared from view and i was wondering where it went...

minutes later i found it has jumped on to my camera an checking out the lense...

birefringence · 1st May 2005

Hi Sulhan

Could you pls share your equipment setup? The pics are crisp sharped. Impressive!

Thanks.

-bire

sulhan · 1st May 2005

Hiee Bire..

I'm currently using a minnolta dynax 7d and the lens used for this shot is an old 35-70mm f4 lens. An extension tube made from removal of gless elements from a 2x teleconvertor was used. For flash, i used the minolta 5600HS(D) flash on off-shoe cable with omnibounce. Setup of flash is by means of a flash bracket and a little miniball head to give the flash (which is mounted to the miniball head via the flash stand) a freedom of positioning.

As usual, i basically run the camera on aperture priority - at f22 to start with based on my past results. Flash is in TTL and manu focus is used. I normally shoot with the 35-70mm lens set to about 40mm for these type of insect size.
Basically move the camera back and forth to get the subject in focus...
hope this helps...

rgds,
sulhan

Scann69 · 1st May 2005

Did you PP the pictures and if you did, what are some of the things you did to the pictures?

Superb crystal clear picture bytheway

sulhan · 2nd May 2005

Hiee....

I basically did only one round of sharpening by means of
- duplicate layer
- filter - effects - high pass - 1.5 (on original file)
- flatten layer

PP done in photoshop - original is already sharp and punchy color. No tweaking of color done.

regards,
sulhan

jbma · 2nd May 2005

Like the DOF. Very nice exposure too.

ortega · 2nd May 2005

The orange one get my vote

btw is that dust on your sensor?

1st May 2005	#1
sulhan Advertiser Join Date: May 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 4,051	SOme steal shots this morning... Hie everyone.... Here are a couple of shots taken at the Alexandra butterfly gardens.....Hahah...none of which are butterflies...just colourful bugs.... rgds, sulhan

1st May 2005	#5
sulhan Advertiser Join Date: May 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 4,051	My current macro setup.... Hiee Bire.. I'm currently using a minnolta dynax 7d and the lens used for this shot is an old 35-70mm f4 lens. An extension tube made from removal of gless elements from a 2x teleconvertor was used. For flash, i used the minolta 5600HS(D) flash on off-shoe cable with omnibounce. Setup of flash is by means of a flash bracket and a little miniball head to give the flash (which is mounted to the miniball head via the flash stand) a freedom of positioning. As usual, i basically run the camera on aperture priority - at f22 to start with based on my past results. Flash is in TTL and manu focus is used. I normally shoot with the 35-70mm lens set to about 40mm for these type of insect size. Basically move the camera back and forth to get the subject in focus... hope this helps... rgds, sulhan

2nd May 2005	#7
sulhan Advertiser Join Date: May 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 4,051	Only did a sharpening..... Hiee.... I basically did only one round of sharpening by means of - duplicate layer - filter - effects - high pass - 1.5 (on original file) - flatten layer PP done in photoshop - original is already sharp and punchy color. No tweaking of color done. regards, sulhan

2nd May 2005	#9
ortega Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: NorthEast Posts: 16,508	The orange one get my vote btw is that dust on your sensor? __________________ The Law

1st May 2005	#2
photosonic Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 242	very nice, the external flash did a very good job for macro.

1st May 2005	#3
damithc Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: NUS Posts: 387	i like the orange one yeah, green one is not a spider. once i had a chance to shoot one of them. shiny and alien-like at close quarters. found that they are very curious too. cos suddenly it dissappeared from view and i was wondering where it went... minutes later i found it has jumped on to my camera an checking out the lense...

1st May 2005	#4
birefringence Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 231	Hi Sulhan Could you pls share your equipment setup? The pics are crisp sharped. Impressive! Thanks. -bire

1st May 2005	#6
Scann69 Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Singapore Posts: 329	Did you PP the pictures and if you did, what are some of the things you did to the pictures? Superb crystal clear picture bytheway

2nd May 2005	#8
jbma Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Tampines Posts: 3,315	Like the DOF. Very nice exposure too.