You're right, Boris. There's a spec of sensor dust. Unfortunately, I
didn't see it until after I made a print last night. It's gone now.
Thanks.
Paul
On Jul 10, 2005, at 12:53 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi!
I was walking in a wooded area this afternoon hoping to shoot some
birds when I came upon a creek covered with bright green algae. A
number of dragon flies were flitting back and forth among some reeds
in the creek. They were way too distant for a macro lens, and I had
brought only my *istD, A400/5.6 and an A2X converter along on the
walk. I also had the Sigma 500 Super mounted with the magnifier lens.
I stuck the converter on the back of the lens and took some shots at
5.6, 1/1000, ISO 800 with high speed synch activated. I came away
with some nice pics of red, green, and blue dragon flies. Here's the
blue guy on a reed. The algae makes a great background. This is
almost full frame with just a bit cropped off the ends of the frame.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3526907&size=lg
Paul
Very gentle creature...
Paul, please look beneath the eye of the critter... And further
beneath the leave. You'd see a dark round spot... Perhaps it is time
you thought of cleaning your *istD sensor...
It almost looks like a perfect studio shot... ;-)
Boris
