Don, I only see one image with a fly. Is my monitor cropping too much? Jack
--- Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dead right! Its and insect not an arthropod! The fly decided to clean > > its front feet for the second exposure. I don't know what happened to > > the focus but I may have left out at least one step. The flower may > have > been vibrating for one or two exposures since there was a wee bit of > wind. The other picture is very sharp. I used the Sigma 50/2.8 Macro > EX > with a Tokina doubler. Every little hair is nicely resolved but this > is > not the case with the fly stack. They look fuzzy. > > I used the massive Manfrotto and pan/tilt head. But I need a couple > more > things for this job -- a bubble level and a ball head with a quick > release plate of some kind. The level on the tripod died in the cold > years ago. > > Don W > > Jostein wrote: > > Har! > > Eight legs! > > > > On one exposure it has been rubbing the front pair together, and on > the next they're back on the leaf. > > > > > > Jostein > > > > ----- Start Original Message ----- > > Sent: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:55:32 +0300 > > From: Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Two pictures posted -- a quiz > > > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've posted two pictures here: > >> > >> http://www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/HOLD/130341.jpg > >> http://www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/HOLD/130244.jpg > >> > >> There is something very odd about the one with the fly, besides > its > >> being slightly out of focus and taken with different lighting > >> conditions. I wonder if anyone can spot the anomaly. These > beautiful and > >> deadly plants are coming up now and will be at their best in a > week or > >> so. I'm slowly getting the lighting matter sorted out. And indoors > I can > >> arrange things quite well now. But there are two problems outside, > wind > >> and light and its simply not possible to take through focus series > with > >> the wind blowing. For these series there was very little wind and > the > >> fly was cooperative. > >> > >> Don > >> > >> -- > >> Dr E D F Williams > >> www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ > >> http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ > >> 41660 TOIVAKKA Finland - +358400706616 > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > >> > > > > ----- End Original Message ----- > > > > > > > -- > Dr E D F Williams > www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ > http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ > 41660 TOIVAKKA Finland - +358400706616 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
