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09-15-2022, 10:01 AM - 6 Likes   #151
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Just a beautiful lens, though a tad specialized for my normal photography. I used it yesterday to photograph ~550 million year old fossils at a UNESCO World Heritage site about 90 miles away. These days--given the propensities of fossil pirates particularly from the US and to comply with UNESCO requirements, they only allow 30 people per day in two guided/supervised groups, you must hike in a couple of miles and you can only walk on the rather small exposed bedding planes in socks or bare feet. (Decades ago, it was a long hike across the barrens that I made a couple of times and many used the area for hunting/berrypicking, and commercial cod fishing...they just didn't know the significance of the fossils till some grad students had a coastal picnic on the bedding planes and got a pub in Nature some months later while at the pre-master's level!)


I packed the 100mm and even though my f-stop got reset to a low value from what I thot I set at f10 somehow, still got a number of good pictures with the shallower DOF. This one shows particularly fine detail given it's over a half a billion years old.

Hand held at a bit above waist height for framing, f4.5, ISO 100, 1/400sec.




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Just got mine. Same night, just after a heavy rain, I lifted up the the garage door and this little guy was there. Unwrapped the new lens, grabbed a $4 clamp light, layed on the wet rock and got eye to eye with him. He was patient for a minute. Wide open. Lens looks sharp to me.
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QuoteOriginally posted by jgnfld Quote
Just beautiful lens, though a tad specialized for my normal photography. I used it yesterday to photograph ~550 million year old fossils at a UNESCO World Heritage site about 90 miles away. These days--given the propensities of fossil pirates particularly from the US and to comply with UNESCO requirements, they only allow 30 people per day in two guided/supervised groups, you must hike in a couple of miles and you can only walk on the rather small exposed bedding planes in socks or bare feet. (Decades ago, it was a long hike across the barrens that I made a couple of times and many used the area for hunting/berrypicking, and commercial cod fishing...they just didn't know the significance of the fossils till some grad students had a coastal picnic on the bedding planes and got a pub in Nature some months later while at the pre-master's level!)


I packed the 100mm and even though my f-stop got reset to a low value from what I thot I set at f10 somehow, still got a number of good pictures with the shallower DOF. This one shows particularly fine detail given it's over a half a billion years old.

Hand held at a bit above waist height for framing, f4.5, ISO 100, 1/400sec.
What an amazing opportunity to photograph something like that!
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QuoteOriginally posted by K2 to K50 Quote
What an amazing opportunity to photograph something like that!
One of the other few sites in the world is the Ediacara Hills if you happen ever to be down there. Looks like a bit of a drive, though, from Ipswich..
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Strophaire bleutée / Blue Roundhead [Stropharia caerulea]
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Strophaire bleutée / Blue Roundhead [Stropharia caerulea]

p.s. can you see it? ... There is a tick on one of the mushrooms ?

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Haven't had it long, but this was a front yard snap. Can't fight good light...

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With the DA 1.4x converter:

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Two wonderfully sharp and clear pics! The colours are amazing, with the colour and patterns of the insects contrasting against the plain white shells.
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Two wonderfully sharp and clear pics! The colours are amazing, with the colour and patterns of the insects contrasting against the plain white shells.
thank you...
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After spending a little time on focus calibration, this one came out about how I wanted it:

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Great Lens

I bought mine second hand a few weeks ago. With a bit of practice and a flash, I am getting some acceptable insect shots in the garden. Any advice, critique, on my pictures would be welcome as I am still relatively new to photography.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Retro Snapper Quote
I bought mine second hand a few weeks ago. With a bit of practice and a flash, I am getting some acceptable insect shots in the garden. Any advice, critique, on my pictures would be welcome as I am still relatively new to photography.
I like both images as they are but you might try a bit of diffusion on the flash if you want to reduce the spotlight highlights on the insects. A Ringflash might help in that aspect but a diffuser like a portable matte box is more my thinking.
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