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- Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:26 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Doing better with the Oly... and tripod.
- Replies: 13
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- Sat Feb 16, 2019 7:35 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: My first of this season
- Replies: 11
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Hi Antonio I like the flies especially the last one. I guess they're quite small. My personal experience of micro four thirds is that while it it great for photographing live wild insects, is's extremely sensitive to raising the iso. I always shoot at iso 200 except when I,m trying to get pictures o...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:46 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Owlfly
- Replies: 0
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Owlfly
Here's an owlfly I photographed in the Karoo in December. I'm quite intrigued by this family of insects at the moment. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/6547_20190116212934_ZS_retouchedcropshare_1.jpg When I started to process and stack the picture, I noticed the eyes. I don't think I ha...
- Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:25 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Fossil
- Replies: 3
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Thanks Beatsy. I'm amazed at how well Zerene handles hand shake - so long as the subject doesn't move. I left those fossils as I found them - I'm not against properly documented responsible amateur collections, but I think that a casual finders keepers approach ending with the artifact forgotten in ...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:27 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Fossil
- Replies: 3
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Fossil
Hi all, here is a photograph of a fossil I saw in the karoo over the holidays. It,s an in-camera focus bracket, hand held and then stacked in Zerene Stacker. The lens is the Olympus 60 mm f 2.8.
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:22 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: The beauty of dragons, part 2
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2976
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 9:12 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Pentax Papilio II 8.5x21 close-focus binos
- Replies: 6
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I got my pair about six weeks ago and am still amazed at the things I see now that I had never noticed before. I think it was the same thread Troels mentioned above that made me aware of them, but here in South Africa they are not exactly in stock everywhere! The shop assistant where I went first sa...
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:52 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Peruvian Amazon: Understory Part III
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3778
I always get a feeling of excitement when I see that you have posted a new set of pictures. It's rare to find such knowledge of the natural world portrayed in such a sensitive and respectful way, and the pictures are simply beautiful. My favorite of this set is the wasp. It's one of those stranger t...
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: The beauty of dragons
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4068
Nice pictures! I like how stacking gives one the freedom to photograph things from an angle and also how it allows one to have a much more out of focus background which concentrates one's attention on the subject. Is yours hand held, and did you move back and forth in burst mode,or re-focus the lens...
- Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:01 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Mating robber flies with prey
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3890
Thanks MarkSturtevant. I also think that the chance for wonder and surprise is much more accessible in macro photography than in wildlife photography where one is going for larger animals. I really think you would enjoy those binocs. If you're not actually wanting to take a picture, the binoculars a...
- Sun Dec 09, 2018 4:57 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Mating robber flies with prey
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3890
Thanks ChrisR sorry for that moment of anxiety. Thanks Yawns. For me a huge part of the "magic' of in the field photography is the fact that one can be surprised at any moment. Strangely, it would seem to me that it is quite difficult to notice things that are completely unexpected. Once one has not...
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 11:58 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Mating robber flies with prey
- Replies: 7
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Mating robber flies with prey
Earlier this year I posted a picture of a mating pair of robber flies where the female ( I think ) was feeding on a butterfly she had caught. I thought this was very unusual - maybe even a once in a lifetime photo. Lou Jost replied on the thread that this is a well documented behaviour of this kind ...
- Sat Nov 03, 2018 2:16 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Polychaete worm
- Replies: 8
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- Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:10 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Wasp vs robber fly.......
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2915
Thanks Robert. I hope you really enjoyed South Africa and get the chance to do so again. It's always hard to know how much kit to take with on a trip, and as many of the organised safaris are almost completely vehicle based the opportunities for macro photography could well be mostly limited to the ...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:22 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Wasp vs robber fly.......
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2915
Wasp vs robber fly.......
Robber fly wins easily!