PESO: Crane Fly

2023-02-12 Thread David Mann
A crane fly emerging from its pupa in an old tree stump in our back yard. My wife saw some of these a few evenings ago and seems to have managed to identify them. Today she spotted one emerging while there was still enough light to get a photo. I had to turn up the ISO to 6400 and also set -1

Re: PESO crane fly macro

2020-06-19 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Fine images, especially for hand-held! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:53 AM Larry Colen wrote: > I noticed this crane fly hanging out by my front door so I put the DFA 100 > macro on the K-1 and got some

Re: PESO crane fly macro

2020-06-19 Thread ann sanfedele
regarding the first shot - you have your WEIRD entry for July PUG :-) reminds me I haven't fished one out of my archives yet.. (not a crane fly, a wierd photo for July) ann On 6/19/2020 4:52 AM, Larry Colen wrote: I noticed this crane fly hanging out by my front door so I put the DFA 100 mac

PESO crane fly macro

2020-06-19 Thread Larry Colen
I noticed this crane fly hanging out by my front door so I put the DFA 100 macro on the K-1 and got some photos. This one is cropped pretty tightly. They’re all available light, hand held. I probably should have grabbed a monopod, if not some better light, but I still got a few decent ones.

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-21 Thread David J Brooks
excellent On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Jostein wrote: > http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fly/ > > Tried to strike a natural pose with this one. Not easy with those ungangly > legs... :-) -So I ended up with a tighter crop. Just as well, it took me a > stack 10 mm deep to get

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 20/8/16, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed: >http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fly/ > >Tried to strike a natural pose with this one. Not easy with those >ungangly legs... :-) -So I ended up with a tighter crop. Just as well, >it took me a stack 10 mm deep to get all this in f

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread ann sanfedele
Larry speaks truth .. could have been "ungainly" as well as "gangly" on the legs. This guy looks like a kids toy airplane somehow... he is prettier than the fliesand beatles ann On 8/20/2016 11:50 AM, Larry Colen wrote: Jostein wrote: http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fl

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread Jack Davis
WOW!! Who designs these "things"! Incredible image, Jostein! J - Original Message - From: "Jostein" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 8:24:32 AM Subject: PESO - Crane Fly http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fly/

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
VERY nicely don, Jostein! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Jostein wrote: > http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fly/ > > Tried to strike a natural pose with this one. Not easy with those ungangly > legs... :-) -So I end

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread Alan C
Superb, Jostein. I remember reading somewhere that mosquitos mutate into crane flies after imbibing hormone face cream! Alan C -Original Message- From: Jostein Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 5:32 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO - Crane Fly uh... *gangly* legs

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread Larry Colen
Jostein wrote: uh... *gangly* legs... I think you did a portmanteau of ungainly and gangly carry on. Jostein Den 20.08.2016 17.24, skrev Jostein: http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fly/ Tried to strike a natural pose with this one. Not easy with those ungangly legs... :-) -

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread Larry Colen
Jostein wrote: http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fly/ Tried to strike a natural pose with this one. Not easy with those ungangly legs... :-) -So I ended up with a tighter crop. Just as well, it took me a stack 10 mm deep to get all this in focus. It could have been deeper still.

Re: PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread Jostein
uh... *gangly* legs... carry on. Jostein Den 20.08.2016 17.24, skrev Jostein: http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fly/ Tried to strike a natural pose with this one. Not easy with those ungangly legs... :-) -So I ended up with a tighter crop. Just as well, it took me a stack 10 mm

PESO - Crane Fly

2016-08-20 Thread Jostein
http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/stankelbein-crane-fly/ Tried to strike a natural pose with this one. Not easy with those ungangly legs... :-) -So I ended up with a tighter crop. Just as well, it took me a stack 10 mm deep to get all this in focus. It could have been deeper still. 200 slices at

Re: PESO - Crane Fly II

2015-07-09 Thread Mark C
Thanks, Frank, and to everyone else who took a look! Mark On 7/7/2015 10:08 PM, frank theriault wrote: More coolness! Amazing detail! cheers, frank On 7 July, 2015 4:09:54 PM EDT, Mark C wrote: http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crane-fly-ii Back to the DOF stacking macro

Re: PESO - Crane Fly II

2015-07-07 Thread P.J. Alling
McCoy: It's dead Jim. On 7/7/2015 8:08 PM, paul stenquist wrote: Fascinating. On Jul 7, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Mark C wrote: http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crane-fly-ii Back to the DOF stacking macro shots. This is another attempt at a crane fly. Pentax K3, SMC K 24mm f3.5, e

Re: PESO - Crane Fly II

2015-07-07 Thread frank theriault
More coolness! Amazing detail! cheers, frank On 7 July, 2015 4:09:54 PM EDT, Mark C wrote: >http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crane-fly-ii > >Back to the DOF stacking macro shots. This is another attempt at a >crane >fly. Pentax K3, SMC K 24mm f3.5, extension. Magnification was

Re: PESO - Crane Fly II

2015-07-07 Thread Christine Aguila
Wow! Incredible detail! Cheers, Christine > >> On Jul 7, 2015, at 7:08 PM, paul stenquist wrote: >> >> Fascinating. >> >> >>> On Jul 7, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Mark C wrote: >>> >>> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crane-fly-ii >>> >>> Back to the DOF stacking macro shots.

Re: PESO - Crane Fly II

2015-07-07 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Another superior image, Mark. You have become quite skilled at this technique. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Mark C wrote: > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crane-fly-ii > > Back to the DOF stacking macro shots. Th

Re: PESO - Crane Fly II

2015-07-07 Thread paul stenquist
Fascinating. > On Jul 7, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Mark C wrote: > > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crane-fly-ii > > Back to the DOF stacking macro shots. This is another attempt at a crane fly. > Pentax K3, SMC K 24mm f3.5, extension. Magnification was about 4x. > > Comments welco

PESO - Crane Fly II

2015-07-07 Thread Mark C
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crane-fly-ii Back to the DOF stacking macro shots. This is another attempt at a crane fly. Pentax K3, SMC K 24mm f3.5, extension. Magnification was about 4x. Comments welcome! Mark --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus

Re: PESO - Crane Fly (Extreme Macro) & Question Re Macro Focusing Rails

2014-12-10 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
That is quite impressive! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Mark C wrote: > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/extreme-macro-crane-fly > > Another test run with extreme macro - this one is a dessicated crane fly > that wh

PESO - Crane Fly (Extreme Macro) & Question Re Macro Focusing Rails

2014-12-09 Thread Mark C
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/extreme-macro-crane-fly Another test run with extreme macro - this one is a dessicated crane fly that who's remains I found on a windowsill this afternoon. This was taken with an Otamat 20mm f1.7 on extension for roughly 4.5x lifesized. 48 image