Thanks for viewing and commenting, all of you. As said in the blog, this critter surprised us by parading our kitchen table at breakfast. I transferred it to the twig and brought it into the living room where I set up a black bag as background, and used the sunlight through the window to light the scene. It was a very educating experience to work under these almost-controlled conditions. Because of the black background I eventually ended up doing shots at -3 stops compensation to avoid highlight burnouts. I also learned how fast a caterpillar can move, and highly recommend using high ISO for this sort of photography. I used ISO 1600, and even at 1/500s I only got a few shots without motion blur.
Jostein Rick Womer wrote: > Superb! Lighting, composition, detail, the cooperative > pose of the caterpillar--it all works wonderfully. David J Brooks wrote: > Excellent Frank Theriault wrote: > That's an amazing photo. The light is quite sublime. Larry Colen wrote: > What? you aren't content for us just to hate you for > your landscape photos? Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > I really like the way the light seems to make the > caterpillar glow. Walt Gilbert wrote: > Well, now. That's pretty damned nice! -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
