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D70 with 60mm Micro Nikkor, SB-24 mounted on bracket.

f32, 1/80s Speedlight on manual 1/16 power.

Nice flower... technically great: Exposure, WB, sharpness etc..

A little to "neat and in the middle" for my tastes...

MHD wrote:A little to "neat and in the middle" for my tastes...

I agree, but with the background, shifting it off centre looked odd.

I reckon it works very well naitm. This is a perfect example of where the Matt K compositional imperative really shines.

And other (well techincally multiple flowers):


D70 with 60mm Micro Nikkor, SB-24 mounted on bracket.

f25, 1/100s Speedlight on manual 1/8 power.

I like both images, first one is a little better & I like neat & in the middle for shots like this.

And one more:



D70 with 60mm Micro Nikkor, SB-24 mounted on bracket.

f32, 1/100s Speedlight on manual 1/16 power.

They're great.

Can you get closer on the first one? I'd love to see the pattern in the centre.

Cheers
Brett

bwhinnen wrote:Can you get closer on the first one? I'd love to see the pattern in the centre.

Certainly... if it wasn't pouring with rain at the moment.

It's an excellent lens and those are some nice shots. I personally like your composition on the first one. What sort of bracket do you use?

Very nice, I so want a macro lense now.

Thanks ATJ for showing me the usefulness of the 60MM micro. Given all the talk, I thought the 105MM micro was the macro lense of choice. However you have shown me otherwise.

Nicole,

It is a DIY bracket that I made years ago for my FE2.



It is basically two pieces of aluminium with a Hama hot shoe ball joint. It attaches to the tripod socket and the SB-24 is connected with an SC-17 cable.

This is only a temporary setup. A friend is in NY at the moment and is getting me a small slave attachment which I can use on an even smaller manual flash. Although, with the success of this, I might keep using it.

Nice lens ATJ - the 60 Micro-Nikkor. Beaut, sharp and upto f/32!

ATJ could you possibly get a photo of the rear of the flash bracket where it bolts onto the bracket.

Now wondering if I could get this machine at a friends factory

ATJ wrote:And other (well techincally multiple flowers):


D70 with 60mm Micro Nikkor, SB-24 mounted on bracket.

f25, 1/100s Speedlight on manual 1/8 power.

These are leaves
Nice though...

PlatinumWeaver wrote:These are leaves
Nice though...

The pink bits are leaves, yes, but the three central objects are flowers - 2 open and one closed.

It just dawned on me that I could simply crop the original photograph to show the detail of the centre.



The original image was cropped and resized. This latest one is just a crop without resizing.

I will take another photograph today (weather withstanding) of just the detail of the centre of the flower.

OK, here's a close up of the flower. This was with the 60mm lens on its closest focusing distance. I have not cropped the image and just resized it from 3028x2000 to 757x500. It is a little over exposed but I couldn't get it any less than that as the flash was on 1/16 (lowest setting) and the lens was on f51.

kipper wrote:Very nice, I so want a macro lense now.

Thanks ATJ for showing me the usefulness of the 60MM micro. Given all the talk, I thought the 105MM micro was the macro lense of choice. However you have shown me otherwise.

Kipper - the 60mm is an excellent lens and you must ask yourself why do they come in other flavours. The answer is simple, as you go from 60 to 90 to 105 to 150 to 180 to 200 you can take the same photo but in each case further away from the subject.

If you want to take pics of flying insects the 60mm would be a lot harder to use than the other lenses. It’s a matter of physics.

ATJ - I like your shots a lot

the top pic works perfect as a bulls eye composition imo
nice shot...

did u bother doing any sharpending in PS tho?
it seems a bit soft to me.

Is it possible you missed the focus a tad on the leaves/flowers in the leaves thingy? The leaves seem sharp but the flowers seem soft or blured or something.

If you don't like the neat and in the middle thing, but it doesn't make sense to shoot it off centre, might I suggest moving in slightly closer to the subject, perhaps cutting off some of the petals in order to get a closer and more punchy image? Just a thought, that way you could probably open up the aperture a tad and get sharper pics.

Great job, looking forward to seeing some more of your pics.