Oh,

just another with an enquiring deer..




Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

and thanks for the comments. I tried a few of the suggestions.. here goes...

I had a couple of shots with the a deer being inquisitive.. so here's one of them.





Here's a tighter crop of the next one, ridding the shot of the trees...





and here's one in mono.. I just left a hint of yellow to add a sepia like finish to it.. a bit of old world charm..





Better?

Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

just a couple from a trip to Petworth Park in Sussex.








Not so sure about the second one.. hence all c&c welcome as always.

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

I think the reposted one (larger) is about there, WB and colour wise. If they're still there, I'd suggest moving a couple of degrees to your left to compose for another shot, just so that the two heads on the right don't look to grow from the same stalk. It tends to show a bold line in the frame of the two stalks, rather than as a separation of two different ones. It might be useful also to have a pair of scissors to just trim the grasses in front, and between the two main groups, just to highlight the mushrooms as standing out from the background.

Very nice all the same..

HTH

Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

long time no see. I've been a bit busy recently.. hardly had time to take any piccies, but we went away to Scarborough this weekend, and I managed to take some. This is one of the better ones. Hope you like it. Feel free to CC as always.




ist* DL | 18-55 MkI @ 50mm | f9.5 @ 1/250 | ISO 200

Hi,

for monitor calibration on a Linux distro, there's this..

http://www.pcbypaul.com/software/monica.html

looks pretty similar to Wysiwig, so should be easy enough to use.

HTH

Cheers

Liam

Hi Amin,

if you've seen the images on the card, then they'll still almost certainly be there. What can happen, is that the file directory can become corrupted, and as Windows uses that as it's references to identify files, then that will explain why they seem to have dissapeared.

File recovery software, even at a basic level looks for bits of data, rather than just directories, and so can "see" the images as raw data, which it can then reindex (my understaning is a little rusty admittedly).

If it is indeed just the directory that's gone up the spout, and the card itself hasn't been rendered unreadable, then you should be fine in getting most if not all images back.

Without taking any more photos, put the card back in the camera.. if the images are still viewable by the camera, then it is definitely a problem with the computer translating the directory.

And once you've got the images back, don't use the card again..

HTH

Cheers

Liam

Agreed, cracking shot.

Cheers

Liam

Liam that's an excellent shot. I had been trying to get one today, obviously not even close to that in quality



Wanted to ask you about the reversing of the 50mm lens please. I tried the reversing ring on my 50mm f1/4 and kind of DOF seems pretty tricky and very very hard to control. Didnt like much what I was getting. But my main problem is focusing. Manually of course and using the aperture ring I could hardly see any changes when focusing with the ring of the lens. Is this normal because of the size of the lens? Is this why you mounted on an 18-55 reversely and does it make it slightly easier to focus? Or am I missing something here? I had to move the camera further or closer to acquire the focus. I notice you say you mounted it reversed on your 18-55. I have the 16-45mm but got to get the stepping ring in order to use it coupled with my reverse 50mm. The filter size is different on this one. I have the coupling rings for the 55-300mm but the only time I used to mount the 50mm on it reversed it seemed to be quite a pain, so I dropped the idea, at least for now.

thanks

Amin

Hi, and thanks Amin,

as Hefty says, the DOF with macro is minute in some cases literally microns. Your eye won't resolve that sort of distance.. just have to take lots of images starting at just out of focus.. through focus, and out the other side. Then just choose which one works. You also have the option of merging several images to give a far greater (perceived) DOF.

As far as reversing the lens goes, I just used Black insulation tape to attach it..

Not ideal perhaps, but perfectly functional. I did have the advantage of a Cokin adaptor ring on each lens though.. that keeps every thing lined up.

HTH

Cheers

Liam

Cheers Peter, very nice of you to say so.. don't know what else to say..

Liam