You did manage a good shot of a slightly gross creature :-) And take THAT Mr Hobby! No strobes!
—M. \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 24 March 2012 12:40, AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
