Photo Post

[pecunium]

Spring is when I pull out the macro-gear. Not just the lenses, but the bellows, the tripod, the racks (for making fine lateral adjustments, both fore and aft, and port/starboard), the extension tubes and the teleconverters.

All of them are issues of compromise. Bellows, tubes and converters all decrease the light at hte film plane. Teleconverters add elements (which induce abberation, and flare). Bellows and tube reduce working distance. Converters add it (and one of mine does both, which makes it very handy for macro work. Then again, that's why it was made that way).

For all that one can get images like this one:



It's a lot of work, and some of it is excercises in Frustration (with a captital F).

Take this one:



It took about 20 minutes to get it set up. The last five of which had the egg case in the view finder. Happily I have those grapes on casters, so I could move it around as the light changed, or to get a different effect, like this:



To do that I had to spin the planter about 120°.

For handheld, we have things like this:



For a change of pace, I took the last one in 2006, at the opening ceremonies for Rapid Trident, in Kiev.

Comments

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

That is the absolute BEST picture of a black widow I've ever seen. Had you posted that eight months ago, that might be my new tattoo instead of this one in my icon (except the tattoo is black with blue accents).

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

There's still time. :)

On a more seriou note, wow, I'm flattered. I don't know that it would have translated well, but I'm flattered none the less.

TK

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

You're right! I could turn your picture into my NEXT tattoo. Oh!!!!!!!

(Now I am full of squee).

You're welcome. I love it when you post photos. I haven't had time to be very up with live journal lately, but the pictures are all so great! And spiders make me happy.

Could I turn that picture into an icon? I would credit you of course!!!!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Feel free. I don't have enough photos of spiders. They are actually pretty hard to shoot (esp. non web spiders). Widows aren't as easy as all that. I had to tease her out, repeatedly, to get the shots, which is why it was hand held.

TK

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

If you do, drop me a line, and I'll send you a better copy, more detail and a larger size, so you can get as well done a tattoo as possible.

TK