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[photos] real macros not taken with 500mm lenses :)
Troy Piggins wrote,on my timestamp of 29/06/2008 7:57 AM:
http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...384-mstack.jpg I feel like this on Mondays... Just joking, of course. Great stuff, Troy. |
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[photos] real macros not taken with 500mm lenses :)
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:26:25 +1000, Troy Piggins
wrote: * Kulvinder Singh Matharu wrote : On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:57:38 +1000, Troy Piggins wrote: [snip] http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8359.jpg My favourite: http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8361.jpg http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...384-mstack.jpg http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8405.jpg Great shots! The third and fourth shots were my favourites. Thanks mate Having looked at your photos, I got off my lazy backside yesterday evening and took a few macro shots. Needed to use that macro lens more! And this is what I got: http://www.metalvortex.com/photo_art/liquid/index.htm http://www.metalvortex.com/photo_art/liquid1/index.htm http://www.metalvortex.com/photo_art/liquid2/index.htm Don't want to get into mutual backslapping; hope you enjoy these. It was ludicrously easy to produce these; very little set-up to do, and these were my first attempts at shooting water droplets. Anyway, thank you for getting me off my backside -- Kulvinder Singh Matharu Website : www.MetalVortex.com Contact : www.MetalVortex.com/contact Blog : www.MetalVortex.com/blog Experimental : www.NinjaTrek.com Brain! Brain! What is brain?! |
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[photos] real macros not taken with 500mm lenses :)
* Kulvinder Singh Matharu wrote :
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:26:25 +1000, Troy Piggins wrote: * Kulvinder Singh Matharu wrote : On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:57:38 +1000, Troy Piggins wrote: [snip] http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8359.jpg My favourite: http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8361.jpg http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...384-mstack.jpg http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8405.jpg Great shots! The third and fourth shots were my favourites. Thanks mate Having looked at your photos, I got off my lazy backside yesterday evening and took a few macro shots. Needed to use that macro lens more! And this is what I got: http://www.metalvortex.com/photo_art/liquid/index.htm http://www.metalvortex.com/photo_art/liquid1/index.htm http://www.metalvortex.com/photo_art/liquid2/index.htm Don't want to get into mutual backslapping; hope you enjoy these. It was ludicrously easy to produce these; very little set-up to do, and these were my first attempts at shooting water droplets. Anyway, thank you for getting me off my backside Those are pretty cool. Really clean and nice lighting. What was your setup? Did you manually trigger the camera or have one of those motion or sound triggers? -- Troy Piggins I always appreciate critique. |
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[photos] real macros not taken with 500mm lenses :)
On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:16:42 +1000, Troy Piggins
wrote: [snip] Those are pretty cool. Really clean and nice lighting. What was your setup? Did you manually trigger the camera or have one of those motion or sound triggers? I'm not sure if I should be embarrassed or proud with how I got those images as it was so easy! Simple. Saw your images. Around 5.30pm. 1. Grabbed my 40D with 100mm macro lens, external flash unit and tripod. 2. Went into kitchen and set up camera on tripod near window. 3. Got a saucepan and half-filled with water. 4. Got a paper towel, rolled into ball and dunked it in water. Used it to drip water droplets into saucepan using left hand to squeeze towel. 5. Set camera to RAW, ISO 400, f2.8, 1/250 s, manual focus to where I think the splash drops would end up. Used my left index finger dipped in the water as a target to focus on. 6. External flash batteries were dead so I switched to internal flash. 7. Using left hand to squeeze drops, and right hand to press shutter. Took a few shots! Had to move hand up/down/left/right/etc to try and get the splash drops in the right place. Also fine-tuned the focus a few times. 8. Imported images into Photoshop, used Neat Image plugin to clean noise and then gradient adjustment layer for the sepia-type toning (plus curve/level adjustments thrown in). Done! Steps 1-7 took maybe 15 minutes. It was that quick. I was just trying to take a few practice shots to explore what I needed to do. The practice shots were fine although a lot were out of focus or mistimed! If I was trying to do this "properly" I would have created a stand with a container that gave consistent water drops allowing focusing to be much easier. I'm not sure if I would have used a triggered timer...not sure where to get one! I'll have to have a look around. I will say this; what I did was quick and dirty. However, I really enjoyed myself and the results were better than I expected. Photography should be fun after all! Cheers! -- Kulvinder Singh Matharu Website : www.MetalVortex.com Contact : www.MetalVortex.com/contact Blog : www.MetalVortex.com/blog Experimental : www.NinjaTrek.com Brain! Brain! What is brain?! |
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[photos] real macros not taken with 500mm lenses :)
* Kulvinder Singh Matharu wrote :
On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:16:42 +1000, Troy Piggins wrote: [snip] Those are pretty cool. Really clean and nice lighting. What was your setup? Did you manually trigger the camera or have one of those motion or sound triggers? I'm not sure if I should be embarrassed or proud with how I got those images as it was so easy! Simple. Saw your images. Around 5.30pm. 1. Grabbed my 40D with 100mm macro lens, external flash unit and tripod. 2. Went into kitchen and set up camera on tripod near window. 3. Got a saucepan and half-filled with water. 4. Got a paper towel, rolled into ball and dunked it in water. Used it to drip water droplets into saucepan using left hand to squeeze towel. 5. Set camera to RAW, ISO 400, f2.8, 1/250 s, manual focus to where I think the splash drops would end up. Used my left index finger dipped in the water as a target to focus on. 6. External flash batteries were dead so I switched to internal flash. 7. Using left hand to squeeze drops, and right hand to press shutter. Took a few shots! Had to move hand up/down/left/right/etc to try and get the splash drops in the right place. Also fine-tuned the focus a few times. 8. Imported images into Photoshop, used Neat Image plugin to clean noise and then gradient adjustment layer for the sepia-type toning (plus curve/level adjustments thrown in). Done! Steps 1-7 took maybe 15 minutes. It was that quick. I was just trying to take a few practice shots to explore what I needed to do. The practice shots were fine although a lot were out of focus or mistimed! If I was trying to do this "properly" I would have created a stand with a container that gave consistent water drops allowing focusing to be much easier. I'm not sure if I would have used a triggered timer...not sure where to get one! I'll have to have a look around. I will say this; what I did was quick and dirty. However, I really enjoyed myself and the results were better than I expected. Photography should be fun after all! Cheers! Cool! Something for me to try on a rainy day. -- Troy Piggins I always appreciate critique. |
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[photos] real macros not taken with 500mm lenses :)
Troy Piggins wrote:
Sorry about the jibe, Rita Been testing out some new diffusers. These were all taken with 100mm lens and extension tubes, 430EX flash with Lumiquest Softbox diffuser. Quite happy with the lighting. Yet to test fully the smaller version Mini Softbox. http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8359.jpg My favourite: http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8361.jpg http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...384-mstack.jpg http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8405.jpg Wow! Very nice. I'll be very interested in you setup photos when you post them. Russell |
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[photos] real macros not taken with 500mm lenses :)
* Russell D. wrote :
Troy Piggins wrote: Sorry about the jibe, Rita Been testing out some new diffusers. These were all taken with 100mm lens and extension tubes, 430EX flash with Lumiquest Softbox diffuser. Quite happy with the lighting. Yet to test fully the smaller version Mini Softbox. http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8359.jpg My favourite: http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8361.jpg http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...384-mstack.jpg http://piggo.com/~troy/photos.php?al...8/img_8405.jpg Wow! Very nice. I'll be very interested in you setup photos when you post them. Thanks mate. Gimme a couple more days to do that. -- Troy Piggins I always appreciate critique. |
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Ping Troy: Thanks for the inspiration
Hi Troy,
I had a grate time doing these! Thanks for the idea. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478991&size=lg http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478885&size=lg http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478833&size=lg (Maxxum 7D, Maxxum 100 f/2.8 macro). Cheers, Alan. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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Ping Troy: Thanks for the inspiration
* Alan Browne wrote :
Hi Troy, I had a grate time doing these! Thanks for the idea. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478991&size=lg http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478885&size=lg http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478833&size=lg (Maxxum 7D, Maxxum 100 f/2.8 macro). Cool. What's wrong with the disc? It looks all crazed or something - did you cook it first? -- Troy Piggins I always appreciate critique. |
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Ping Troy: Thanks for the inspiration
Troy Piggins wrote:
* Alan Browne wrote : Hi Troy, I had a grate time doing these! Thanks for the idea. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478991&size=lg http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478885&size=lg http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478833&size=lg (Maxxum 7D, Maxxum 100 f/2.8 macro). Cool. What's wrong with the disc? It looks all crazed or something - did you cook it first? 4 seconds in a microwave at full power ... Cheers, Alan. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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