Adelaide Meet, Botanic Garden shots

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Adelaide Meet, Botanic Garden shots

Postby DanielA on Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:41 pm

We had a meet up at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens to exercise our macro shooting. :D

Here's some of my shots from the day...

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Most of these shots are heavily cropped (some equivalent to 2Mpx), so they're not great but I think they came up OK.

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Re: Adelaide Meet, Botanic Garden shots

Postby DanW on Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:01 pm

The third shot is fantastic. Which lens did you use for that one?
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Re: Adelaide Meet, Botanic Garden shots

Postby DebT on Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:59 am

Nice shots Daniel ,
agree with Dan love the fly (perhaps desatuarte the yellow a tad?it really jumps out on my screeen)
and the dragon fly was worth the wait
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Re: Adelaide Meet, Botanic Garden shots

Postby DanielA on Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:30 pm

DanW wrote:The third shot is fantastic. Which lens did you use for that one?

Thanks. My macros were all done with the Sigma 150mm f/2.8 lens.
But keep in mind I did a hard crop on that one in post-processing. :roll: Having said that, I did not get close enough to a 1:1, so you can do better. :)

DebT wrote:agree with Dan love the fly (perhaps desatuarte the yellow a tad?it really jumps out on my screeen)
and the dragon fly was worth the wait

Thanks Deb. Yes the yellow was blown and I couldn't bring it back, even shooting raw!

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Re: Adelaide Meet, Botanic Garden shots

Postby BBJ on Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:16 pm

Hi Daniel, Well i miss out on all the fun,LOL but i like #2 others good as well and well done as i have neve got into this stuff, infact i have been very slack lately, too busy fishing.

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Re: Adelaide Meet, Botanic Garden shots

Postby DanielA on Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:46 pm

BBJ wrote:Hi Daniel, Well i miss out on all the fun,LOL but i like #2 others good as well and well done as i have neve got into this stuff, infact i have been very slack lately, too busy fishing.

It was a good day. One good thing about macro is you can find things to shoot anywhere.
Perhaps you when you take a break from the high pressure world of fishing you can relax with some quiet macros. :D

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