Today a 2 frame pano stitch with the 20mm f/3.5 AIS
Place is right on the John Muir Trail - a steep hillside with about 25 switchbacks. Northbound, we were heading uphill this time. Each switchback the view of the meadow area below got better
Couple of shots in the garden of more regular visitors, both with 200QC+2x TC
Rainbow Lorikeet on the Golden Penda (Xanthostemon crysanthus) a prolific flowering tree that i covered in blooms at this time of year, planted along the reserve in the middle of the road into town, very pretty and the lories love them for their nectar.
ramkumar999 wrote:
Here is my technique. I dont use the focus ring much as I like to focus as close as possible. Instead, I move my body to and fro until I see the green dot confirmation.
Cool Ram, I did the part with moving the camera back an forth but I used the live view not the green dot, I'll try this next time.
After the bird left, turned around and the scientific brain started to work. How many years old it would have been when it was cut? I counted, recounted and still counting.
Redondo Beach, CA.
D750, Nikon 55mm f/2.8 AIS Micro at f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 100. No PP. Exif incorrectly recorded as 50mm.
Nice capture Jay. But I have to ask you , does the 24mm PC ever get removed from the camera? It looks like a permanent fixture in your lens atleast here at the MF pages.
ramkumar999 wrote:
Nice capture Jay. But I have to ask you , does the 24mm PC ever get removed from the camera? It looks like a permanent fixture in your lens atleast here at the MF pages.
Guess it is my new normal, I wish Nikon made a modern 28mm T/S because I like that FL more.
I was thinking exactly the same thing Peter. It appears that his newest dog is whiter than the older dogs on the place, which makes perfect sense since that is what is happening with our good friend's beard...
bobbelbob wrote:
Did take a few more shots with the 55/3.5 ai today. No perfect shots but I guess there´s a lot of potential
It is incredible har to nail focus using the whole vivitar extension set as well...
//Kristian
Ram gives you the advice I would as well... rocking back and forth is much easier than turning the focusing ring when shooting with tubes. If you haven't already Kristian, you might want to check out the thread I started in the Macro World forum titled Shooting with Tubes.
I give a brief overview of what I learned, mostly from folks on this thread as well as from others who enjoy this kind of shooting. Folks from this thread occasionally appear on that thread as well. But it is much slower, and, therefore not quite as rewarding an experience. I haven't posted on that thread for some time, but you might enjoy browsing through it to see how folks are using tubes. They give us a delightful alternative for shooting when the natural world has lost some of its appeal because of climate, seasons, weather. You can get close in the middle of chaos and find something worth examining. Have fun!
So I returned to Strawberry Point yesterday WITH the 400 f/5.6 AI-s ED-IF and took a series of photos. The sky was not as interesting as my earlier visit so I decided to convert the images using Silver Efex Pro 2. Although the original panorama has seven shots, I cropped it to perhaps four or five. This is hand held, though I was using a monopod to steady myself
I was between three and four miles from downtown San Francisco when this was shot. I cropped at both the top and the bottom since I shot this in portrait rather than landscape mode.
CGrindahl wrote:
Ram gives you the advice I would as well... rocking back and forth is much easier than turning the focusing ring when shooting with tubes. If you haven't already Kristian, you might want to check out the thread I started in the Macro World forum titled Shooting with Tubes.
I give a brief overview of what I learned, mostly from folks on this thread as well as from others who enjoy this kind of shooting. Folks from this thread occasionally appear on that thread as well. But it is much slower, and, therefore not quite as rewarding an experience. I haven't posted on that thread for some time, but you might enjoy browsing through it to see how folks are using tubes. They give us a delightful alternative for shooting when the natural world has lost some of its appeal because of climate, seasons, weather. You can get close in the middle of chaos and find something worth examining. Have fun!...Show more →
Perfect Curtis! I'll babysit my neighbours kids tonight a couple hours. They will be aslerp so I'll have time to go through it.
Thanks!
CGrindahl wrote:
So I returned to Strawberry Point yesterday WITH the 400 f/5.6 AI-s ED-IF and took a series of photos. The sky was not as interesting as my earlier visit so I decided to convert the images using Silver Efex Pro 2. Although the original panorama has seven shots, I cropped it to perhaps four or five. This is hand held, though I was using a monopod to steady myself
I was between three and four miles from downtown San Francisco when this was shot. I cropped at both the top and the bottom since I shot this in portrait rather than landscape mode....Show more →
Really nice pano. It reminds I really need to see California some day.
MontanaKid wrote:
Yes, good technique but I find at 82 that once I start rocking I can't stop it! :-)
Jack
The other thing you can also do is to add flash. Here I had stopped the lens down significantly and took may be two-three shots and stacked them.
Shot with 50mm f1.8 with PK extension tube and used SB700 flash. Fly by Ramkumar Sangameshwar, on Flickr
