Lovely shapes & colours, Adrian, but I feel the lighting is too harsh for the subject/season.

Roger.

Very grand, Snappy!

How are you at walking backwards with a tray of ice creams?

roger.

Thanks John & Sally for your kind remarks.

I didn't "set" the w/b to anything in paticular, hoping the tungsten lighting would give this "old" feel to the image, as with the non use of Neat Image to smooth out the noise.
I do regret, now, not making the lighting mor directional, from above, to give more modelling to the peach which I think (now!) is a little flat. It would be nice for its bottom edge to be lost against the b/g, too!

Thanks for the pointer to the two blemishes - just didn't notice!

I think the fine-line frame just defines/contains the image nicely. I like it!

Thanks again,

Roger.

An adjusted version of my image in Gallery.


[IMG]http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af340/rogerhlane/PeachLeaf004adjdesaturatedlighterforprint.jpg[/IMG]



Comments & criticism welcome.

Thanks,
Roger.

no.1 for me is the green chameleon on the black background.
All fabulous. though!

Roger.

Just got this on PU heading:

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when I tried to upload an image to Gallery.

What's happening?

Roger.

I made one for my AF200t from a square milk bottle.

Cut a section from the bottle so you have an open-ended tube.
In one side, cut an oblong hole, the length of which is sufficient to accommodate the width of the flash head. This dim. is not critical.

The height of the hole is, though!

You will notice, on the flash head, there are two grooves, on top & under the front edge of the black body.
The idea is to cut the hole the same as the dim. from bottom of groove to bottom of groove. Make this is too tight rather than too slack.
If you now extend the vertical cuts by about 3mm., you'll find the spring in the plastic "snaps" the diffuser into place & holds it very securely in place.

Voila!

It works.
The flash does "spill" out of the sides, but I don't think that affects performance.

Good luck!

Roger.

Thanks for the comments, Alan.
I suppose I was caught between treating the session as a technical, exploratory excercise, using some equipment I'd had (but not used) for some years, & coming up with some images pleasing to the eye.

Not sure I've achieved either, to be honest!
Again, thanks for taking the time to comment.

Roger.

Well, that really is exhaustive, complete information!
Thanks for the excellent link.

No excuses now, eh?

Roger.

All with K7, available daylight, 1,2 & 3: blind drawn, hence colour casts (!); no.4, direct sunlight + reflector (white paper).
All slightly cropped & adjusted in PSE9.

1. 100 D FA Macro, iso 100, 1sec @ f22.

[IMG]http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af340/rogerhlane/DandelionClockMacro016crop.jpg[/IMG]


2. 50mm SMC M f1.7, reversed on Pentax Auto Bellows M, 8 secs @ f22, iso 100.

[IMG]http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af340/rogerhlane/DandelionClockMacro007crop.jpg[/IMG]


3. As no.2

[IMG]http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af340/rogerhlane/DandelionClockMacro005adj.jpg[/IMG]


4. 100mm D FA Macro, iso400, 1.6 secs @f22.

[IMG]http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af340/rogerhlane/DandelionClockMacro003crop.jpg[/IMG]


Any comments, criticism most welcome.

Roger.