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Postby ATJ on Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:56 pm

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

f32, 1/80s Speedlight on manual 1/16 power.
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Postby MHD on Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:59 pm

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

A little to "neat and in the middle" for my tastes...
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Postby ATJ on Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:17 pm

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.
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Postby Greg B on Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:21 pm

I reckon it works very well naitm. This is a perfect example of where the Matt K compositional imperative really shines.
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Postby ATJ on Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:13 pm

And other (well techincally multiple flowers):
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:17 pm

I like both images, first one is a little better & I like neat & in the middle for shots like this.
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Postby ATJ on Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:26 pm

And one more:

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Postby bwhinnen on Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:41 pm

They're great.

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

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Postby ATJ on Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:56 pm

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. :x
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Postby Nicole on Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:48 pm

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?
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Postby kipper on Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:53 pm

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.
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Postby ATJ on Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:11 pm

Nicole,

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

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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.
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Postby Onyx on Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:31 pm

Nice lens ATJ - the 60 Micro-Nikkor. Beaut, sharp and upto f/32!
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Postby kipper on Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:44 pm

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 :)
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Postby PlatinumWeaver on Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:03 pm

ATJ wrote:And other (well techincally multiple flowers):
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These are leaves :)
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Postby ATJ on Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:39 pm

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.
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Postby ATJ on Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:34 am

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

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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.
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Postby ATJ on Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:22 am

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.

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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:10 pm

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 :D
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Postby flipfrog on Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:13 pm

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.
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Postby dooda on Sat Mar 05, 2005 2:15 pm

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.

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