Some interesting photos in that set. But why do so many IR enthusiasts seem to be attracted to graveyards ???

Get a UV-modified camera and a UV filter - you'll see the world in a different light .

Steve

Not sure if it will help, but here's a link to a cross section of the camera LINK. Strange how vague memories from years ago can come to the surface...

Steve

Wow! What a catch - both for the sparrowhawk and you. A chance in a lifetime and you took it and took it well . I've had both sparrowhawks and dismembered pigeons in the garden, but never at the same time. And the sparrowhawks have always gone before I could get a camera.

As for that last, standalone picture - there's something disconcerting about having a bird of prey stare at you, even in a photo. Whatever rational thought might say, it's hard not to think that it's sizing you up for its next meal...

Steve

What I've never been able to understand is why crisps never taste like what it says on the packet. Did whoever named prawn cocktail or flame grilled steak crisps, to give just two examples, not bother to find out what the real thing tastes like?

Steve

Some bits of tendrils from the butternut squash plants that have been trying to take over the vegetable patch for the last few months. Removed from the plants and photographed indoors - trying to do it in situ would have required entering a tangled mass of vegetation that might have swallowed me whole and spat me out in a couple of weeks' time. All with K3 and focus stacked, of course.

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.

And in case you are wondering, there are several ripening quashes ranging in size from sensible to totally, unreasonably vast.

1. With Laowa 25mm x2.5-5 macro at x4 magnification, stack of 121 images.



2. With Sigma 70mm macro at approx x1 magnification, stack of 19 images.



3. With Sigma 70mm macro at approx x1 magnification, stack of 31 images.



Steve

Lovely pictures from a place which is close to me that I don't bother visiting it!

So many good photos, but the one that stands out for me is No. 3. It must surely have been tempting to do a tighter crop centred on the squirrel. However, the picture as is conveys the vulnerability of the squirrel, which a tighter crop would not do. Perfect!

No. 7 is niggling - almost perfect but not quite. My eye is drawn to the left hand side rather than to the direction that the squirrel is pointing (nearly said 'looking', but with those eyes it's probably looking in all directions at the same time .). Perhaps removing a slice from the left to get rid of the bright patch in the top left and similar amount from the top would help...

Steve

Thanks. Yes, it was 100 x 1/24th mm, so 1 degree turn of the protractor between shots. Needed to resolve details of the crater, its diameter is much less than 1mm. The most difficult thing wasn't the taking of the stack, it was manoeuvring a big stick into a rig that's set up for small things. Taking 100 shots was just a bit boring...

Steve

If you were navigating NASA's Perseverence Rover on the surface of Mars, where in the following picture would tell it to drill for signs of life? And would you fly its mini-helicopter into the approaching dust storms or ground it until the storms have passed?

But this isn't Mars, it's old, dried paint on a stick. Taken with K3 + Laowa 25mm macro @ 4x magnification, 100 image stack processed by Affinity Photo.

Thoughts, comments welcome as usual (please do not contact NASA...:wink.




Steve

Interesting. I prefer the second 'with' shot (although I'm still not a fan of IR!).

Guessing here at the reason for the apparently different lighting and assuming an ND reduces IR as well as visible light... The position of the clouds is much the same in both pictures so the time between shots must have been fairly short and natural light (actually, IR light) much the same in both. The skies look to be much the same brightness/darkness with and without the ND grad (albeit a bit darker with the filter) so the shot with the ND grad must either have been exposed for longer or brightness adjusted in post-processing. Either way, the effect on the foreground (which did not have light/IR reduced by the ND grad) is to increase its brightness. How's that :wink

Steve

What a magnificant pair of antennae. And yet another example of what seems to be a law of nature - looked at sufficiently closely, all living things are hairy !

Beautifully photographed and as Mike-P says, the lighting is great. A work of art as well as documenting a fascinating bit of nature.

Steve