Strawberry Tree
Uploaded: June 27, 2006
Or something much smaller
Exif: FNumber: 16, ExposureBiasValue: 0/1, ExposureTime: 1.66666666666667E-02, Flash: flash fired, ISO: 200, WhiteBalance: manual white balance
Irene McC November 18, 2006
HA !!! The inside of a Hibiscus flower... this is my all-time torture test for any new macro equipment I use :-)My D70s with 105mm macro lens did the job pretty well, compared to other combinations tested.
The D2X? (DROOOOOOOL!)
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Ian c. Spector November 19, 2006
Dear Irene,I really love my D2X but I have a colleague who takes great pictures with his D70 and the 18-200 at a fraction of the weight. Is your lens the new 105VR or the classic?
It interests me how all macro lenses seem to give perfect viceless images. My 12-24 never quite seems to delight me. I love the wideness but I am never really excited when I put it on. What are your favourite lenses. #3603593
Irene McC November 19, 2006
Before I comment further, I want to upload an image to my gallery as example to link to you, however I'm struggling with the upload process.My 105 is the old fashioned baby, no VR.
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Irene McC November 19, 2006
Aha, okay - used the single photo uploader which seems to be more compatible with my system.Please go look here:
http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.php?photoID=3038707&catID=&style=&rowNumber=1&memberID=193885
I would appreciate your comments and crit.
Many thanks.
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Ian c. Spector November 19, 2006
Dear Irene,I like your hibiscus very much. By moving the 105 further back you have the benefit of a much deeper depth of field, and of course it gives a much sharper image by reducing the impact of camera movement.
Thus you have the wonderfully saturated yellows sharply focussed over a soft pink background. In fact I would have been tempted to crop out the part of the petal in the bottom left that has come into focus. This would further heighten the impact of the yellow.
If you have not yet tried it Nikon Capture NX is a really super tool for doing selective changes to colour and focus. I do all my initial RAW processing on it before exporting as a TIFF into CS2.
I usually find that the JPEG compression on this site gives a very soft image so it is doubly good that yours appears so sharp. I love smugmug.com as I can store full size high res images with no storage limit. That is such a cool site.
Are more of your pictures online?
Ian #3604690
Irene McC November 20, 2006
Oh - great advice! I never really grasp the focal distance thing... so if I'm further away but zoom in close to the subject, should that give me an improved images with a more blurred BG & lovely bokeh?I ran Nikon Capture (the old version, not NX) and it c-r-a-w-l-e-d along so frustratingly slowly, that I uninstalled it in a huff.
My camera's colour space is set to Adobe RGB 1998 and I import the converted file as a 16-bit tiff before further PP. All very time-consuming, but fun!
I'm enjoying chatting with you - thank you.
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Ian c. Spector November 20, 2006
Actually the other way round. The closer you are the less depth of field. Obviously the lower the f stop the less depth of field. The 200 has so little that I try and keep it up to f11 if at all possible. Of course with a tripod I am never concerned with long exposures.The closer you are to a subject the more camera shake becomes a problem. Thus if you take a picture at maximum magnification (as close as possible) it will be almost impossible to get it sharp.
I really urge you to resolve your differences with your tripod and bring it back on the scene. For me I am almost always at 1:1 magnification so there is no way I could get by without. And besides I like being able to walk round holding flashes whilst pressing the remote release and seeing the different effects.
One thing I always forgot to do with BetterPhoto was to convert the pictures from Adobe RGB to sRGB. When I forgot they looked awful.
I think Capture NX is faster than 4.0 but still some things are grindingly slow. However the colours are amazing. There is a 30 day free trial and you should at least check it out.
I look forward to seeing some more of your work.
Ian #3607644
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