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by NikonUser
Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Am I doing something wrong?
Replies: 13
Views: 2790

Thanks Rik: I have blocked cookies, so will see what happens.
But perhaps the best way to handle it is to 1st type everything into Notepad then Copy and Paste.
Trouble is I often forget to do this and type directly into the reply window as now.
by NikonUser
Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:29 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: macro flash units
Replies: 23
Views: 7301

Waiting for someone to buy and test one of these for macros:
SEE HERE
by NikonUser
Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:21 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Data processing nightmare - Whirligig Beetles
Replies: 13
Views: 17442

Posted a ventral shot
HERE
by NikonUser
Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:18 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Macro challenge
Replies: 13
Views: 3668

What exactly is the ventral surface? I checked the definition but it only mentioned something to do with gill. :shock: I wouldn't call the initial challenge unrealistic just yet... at least not until more people had a go at it. My problem right now is finding it. Just a few questions... when are th...
by NikonUser
Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:01 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Am I doing something wrong?
Replies: 13
Views: 2790

Internet Expolorer (version 7?)
by NikonUser
Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:58 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: 6-spotted Forester moth
Replies: 5
Views: 1258

Digitized yesterday from a Kodachrome 64 slide taken in 1990. Slide film will stay 'fresh' for several months if kept cold; not sure if it can be safely kept frozen for any length of time. It's been a while since I used Kd64 but I recall that the 'amateur' version is not really ready to be used when...
by NikonUser
Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:27 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Am I doing something wrong?
Replies: 13
Views: 2790

Am I doing something wrong?

For the second time in 2 days this problem has occurred. I log in, type a reply - not timed but perhaps 3 minutes (OK, so I'm a slow typist); hit the preview button and am taken back to the "Log in" page so losing all the gems I had just typed.

This message was typed in Notebook and pasted here.
by NikonUser
Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:09 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Macro challenge
Replies: 13
Views: 3668

I tried photographing free-roaming specimens of these from above a few years ago. Not a single photo worth keeping! They are fast, agile little buggers. OK the initial challenge was unrealistic. How about changing it to: "a close-up dorsal shot of a live whirligig, or whirligigs, in its (their) nat...
by NikonUser
Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:52 pm
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: 6-spotted Forester moth
Replies: 5
Views: 1258

6-spotted Forester moth

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/569_img017_1.jpg Langton's Forester, 6-spotted Forester Alypia langtoni . Wingspan about 2.5cm. The bright colours of this day-flying, North American, moth suggest that it is poisonous to would-be predators. 1990 Kodachrome, FE2, MF105mm Micro Nikkor, f...
by NikonUser
Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:11 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Costa Rican leafcutter Ant
Replies: 9
Views: 4218

Exccellent, but for that missing tip of the right antenna :(
by NikonUser
Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Macro challenge
Replies: 13
Views: 3668

I haven't even thought about how to do it. The challenge is to get the photo. Although it will be interesting to see how it gets done, if indeed it does get done. There's no deadline, and no prize. I will give it a shot next year if no one does it sooner. Doubt that I will see any more whirligigs th...
by NikonUser
Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
Topic: Macro challenge
Replies: 13
Views: 3668

Macro challenge

Close-up of a live Whirligig Beetle
SEE HERE FOR IDENTIFICATION
on a water surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



showing the ventral surface of the beetle :twisted:
by NikonUser
Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:41 pm
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Just a Damsel.
Replies: 1
Views: 734

Nice Damsel, nice composition.
Perhaps a female Ischnura elegans
by NikonUser
Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:34 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Flash diffuser
Replies: 3
Views: 3500

If you want shadows, simply move the specimen closer to the background, or even substitute a dark sheet for the white paper so that less light is reflected from beneath. If you want lots of shadow then don't use any diffuser. Used in the vertical position with a live bug sitting on a leaf will give ...
by NikonUser
Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:02 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: A difficult subject, some compromise needed!
Replies: 12
Views: 2116

Re: A difficult subject, some compromise needed!

and that is the problem when going in close-wind! But to get lots of DOF you need a small aperture, and that means a long exposure, which when its windy is not an option! If only I had a flashgun! When I was into plant photography I made a frame out of 1/2" PVC tubing, using the available 3-way cor...