All punning aside, Mark (at least for a minute or two), both of the fossil and mineral photos are gorgeous. They're well worth printing LARGE and framing.
Rick On Dec 15, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Mark C wrote: > Continuing experiments with minerals - this is a 4x lifesized close up of a > bismuth crystal: > > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/bismuth-crystal > > or > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcassino/23671905071/ > > K01 with reverse mounted SMC K 24 f3.5, 70 stacked images. I could not > position a flash well to shoot into the crystal (it is very 3 dimensional) so > I used ambient light which resulted in a shutter speed of 0.4 seconds per > shot. I would prefer to use the flash to counter any vibration related blur, > but the long exposures came out OK. > > Comments welcome. > > Mark > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > 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. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- 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.

