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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:47 pm

This shot was with the Sigma 105mm macro - f/32 at 1/60th sec

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Postby Glen on Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:55 pm

Your old Coke bottle is holding up well :wink:
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Postby birddog114 on Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:56 pm

Glen wrote:Your old Coke bottle is holding up well :wink:


Glen,
Your Coke bottle is on its way!
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:00 pm

Glen wrote:Your old Coke bottle is holding up well :wink:


Glen - welcome to the Coke Club - we will show the Pepsi users what it is all about :wink:
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:01 pm

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Great shot - love the desaturated background and the nice simple composition. Weren't you tempted to rearrange the petals to fix that annoying little wisp?
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:03 pm

Peter - there always has to be a flaw so that people can comment :wink:
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Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:05 pm

sirhc55 wrote:Glen - welcome to the Coke Club - we will show the Pepsi users what it is all about :wink:


Damnit... I drink Sprite...
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Postby Glen on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:05 pm

Thanks Birddog, I am a happy man
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:06 pm

Nnnnsic wrote:
sirhc55 wrote:Glen - welcome to the Coke Club - we will show the Pepsi users what it is all about :wink:


Damnit... I drink Sprite...


That’s Tamron :wink:
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Postby kipper on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:29 pm

Hmmm......even at F32 the background is really blurred.
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:39 pm

kipper wrote:Hmmm......even at F32 the background is really blurred.


Kipper - it is a macro lens, very small flower and very small DOF.

With this setting of f/32 at approx 5cm distance you would have a DOF of 5.02cm near and 4.98cm far and a hyperfocal of 1733.2cm :shock:
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Postby Oneputt on Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:41 pm

Thats pretty darned good for a Sigma Chris :wink: I can even see some indentations in individual petals, and with my eyesight............ :D
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Postby kipper on Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:45 pm

Hmm....so you can focus at 5cm from subject?

I remember using my Sigma 70-300MM Super Macro APO I (not II) and it really sucked in macro I found. Don't think I could focus on a subject that was closer then about 1M from focal plane.

Btw, could you give a rough estimate of the size of the subject in millimeters.
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:49 pm

kipper wrote:Hmm....so you can focus at 5cm from subject?

I remember using my Sigma 70-300MM Super Macro APO I (not II) and it really sucked in macro I found. Don't think I could focus on a subject that was closer then about 1M from focal plane.

Btw, could you give a rough estimate of the size of the subject in millimeters.


Fraid the flower died - sorry - but it was one of those small daisies you find growing in prolification in the garden
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Postby kipper on Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:54 pm

So roughly about 10-15MM in diameter. How much did you crop the image or isn't it?
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Postby kipper on Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:56 pm

I think a 105MM Macro after the VR, legs and head is on the list :)
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:03 pm

kipper wrote:So roughly about 10-15MM in diameter. How much did you crop the image or isn't it?


To be perfectly honest I have no idea how much I cropped this pic as it was shot prior to my keeping NEFs but it has been cropped from the right hand side as the image was very central
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Postby gooseberry on Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:09 pm

Nice shot - like the desaturated effect, make the yellow really stand out. As stubbsy mentioned, only nitpick is the small petal sticking in the wrong place.
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Postby flipfrog on Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:24 am

pretty pic!
nice and simple...my style!
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