a different view

Thanks for the comments, guys.

peeking from a day lily

Interesting subject and excellent photography, Jody.

Thanks, Nikola and Aynia.

Ken, beautiful photo. You seem, however, to be overly concerned about overexposing the highlights in your recent posts. Keeping detail in he highlights is important, but not to the detriment of the overall appearance of the photo. Perhaps it is my monitor (or yours), but the photo here appears too d...

What sort of lighting condition and camera setting did you shoot it in? I shot this photo in soft, cloudy available light (my favorite). I tried a few with a macro flash, but liked the available light ones better. I used a Nikon D2X and 105mm Nikkor VR lens. The settings were 1/200 second at f/8.0 ...

Tidying up

Excellent, Laurie.
U DA MAN!

Very nice, Sue. Interesting shapes, tones and textures.

I believe this is a "lightning bug" on an echinacea.

These next two photos demonstrate what effect "long" exposures might have on the D3's performance. The first photo is another 100% crop taken with an exposure of 2 seconds and at an ISO of 200. I thought that I'd push the limits a bit in the 2nd photo and include two noise-producing elements: long e...

Perhaps I should have posted this topic under the "Equipment" section? Well, I'm not sure about my technique but here's what I did. I shot this photo in Raw and converted to Jpg and applied a little unsharp mask. The first photo is full frame ISO 1600. The second photo is a crop of the photo at 100%...

I recently got my hands on a Nikon D3 and wanted to test the claims that it produces low noise at high ISO's. Here are two photos taken at ISO 3200 with minimal noise reduction set on the camera. Not bad! http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/344_DSC_0228Edit_1.jpg http://www.photomacrograph...

I caught this small fellow munching on one of my wife's day lilies.
He looks a bit guilty or (if I may mix metaphors) a bit "sheepish".




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