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Participanthaha mopsy she also likes taking pictures of me, so I’m hoping that isn’t a pattern 😉
ParticipantWhat’s funny is that I bought her a set of clubs for her birthday…
ParticipantSorry 🙁 I never think of it.
ParticipantAwesome! Congrats man!
ParticipantI’ll play – I opted for the mantis over this one, partially because I just didn’t want to post two spiders. The other problem is that it’s impossible to get a sense of scale from the shot. This spider is walking on the side of a three-cell Maglight.
http://65.78.140.207/TF/farktography/100602.bugs/spider-2096-crop_sm.JPG
And the uncropped version.
http://65.78.140.207/TF/farktography/100602.bugs/spider-2096_sm_web.JPGParticipantNot to compare myself to U-Man (or anyone else for that matter) but I shot mine with a Sigma 70-300mm lens that I bought for $99 on Ebay. Just flipped the switch to Macro and shot the ISO way up and went for it. I’m going to get myself a Canon EF 100mm Macro soon, but I don’t think I could’ve done better with it on. Don’t sell yourself short, all the gear in the world doesn’t replace a good eye, and you’ve got one.
Don’t be afraid to look at that Sigma 50mm/F2.8 macro too. It does a really good job at the macro stuff, and you might find it more generally useful, especially if you don’t have a prime in that area. We got to play with the Canon 100mm before we bought Kat’s, and I think she’s happier having gotten the 50.
/ideally, I’d like to have both 😉
I am, BTW, moderately proud of my butterfly. Whatever the vote total may say! 😀
I haven’t been doing so well lately, so I can’t even begin to call mine 😛 But I like your 8:01
ParticipantI found a spiffy scripts for the Gimp that works pretty well – Especially once you figure out how to modify it so it defaults to your name, etc.
ParticipantLately I’ve taken to not tagging the 640x post print, but I do tag the pop versions – basically anything big enough someone could print.
I felt like the imprimatur was making the small versions a bit too ‘fussy-looking’ for my tastes. YMMV though.
ParticipantThe big stumbling block for me & medium format has been the glass. I mean, I’ve seen Hasselblad bodies for under $500, but by the time I get a back, and even a single prime add at least 1K to that :/
Participanthave two series of jumping spider, one from today and one from a while back, but don’t like any of them that much. those little buggers are hard to shoot and get decent DOF.
lol. yes they are. I chased one around yesterday, but didn’t get much I liked out of the deal. It was shady, so the lighting was only marginal 😛
ParticipantFWIW, that’s about what I do too. I was taking pictures of a pillbug yesterday, for example, and I set the lens to the minimum focal length and moved around until the thing was in focus. Or, more frequently, got ahead of it and waited. Those little buggers are *fast* when they’re on a mission…
Also, pillbugs on concrete can be pretty uninteresting, because most of my shots ended up more suitable for kestrana‘s B&W&G contest than this one :/
ParticipantAin’t digital grand! I am glad I learned to shoot on film first, for the discipline of cost that it taught, but I LOVE being able to shoot a hundred shots to get ten good ones.
Totally. I find myself experimenting a lot more to get just the shot I want, too, because I can. That’s probably my favorite part of going digital.
Participant…and then the dinosaurs came, but they all got fat and died. But, along came the Arabs, and they bought Mercedes Benzes!
/thanks for the recap Els 🙂
ParticipantIt’s still pretty cool though 🙂
Participantennui – I hear you. One of my shots this week is going to be a jumping-type spider that I took last year and have been saving for just this contest. It took me nearly an hour and untold shots to get the one I wanted…and, thankfully I’d bought Kat a macro lens for her last birthday so I was able to borrow it to chase the little bugger around 😛
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