[normhead]

Very cool...

[Erictator]

We finally had some snow during the day at a time when I had a few moments free to shoot some flake macros!

Seven shot handheld focus stack at about 4.8:1 (Pentax-M 135mm F/3.5 plus coupled reverse Sigma 24-70mm zoom at 28mm):

That is so awesome!
Eric

[savoche]

Hermite crab on the beach. A tiny little thing, but there were lots of them.

K-3 and DFA100

[aslyfox]

some photos from last year's visits to the Kansas City Zoo in Kansas City Missouri:

sumatran tiger - K 3 + Tamron AF 70-300mm F4-5.6 LD Macro 1:2

african wild dogs - K 3 + Smc Pentax-DA L 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED WR + 1.4x converter

Mona Monkey - K 3 + HD PENTAX-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR

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[Scorpio71GR]

We finally had some snow during the day at a time when I had a few moments free to shoot some flake macros!

Seven shot handheld focus stack at about 4.8:1 (Pentax-M 135mm F/3.5 plus coupled reverse Sigma 24-70mm zoom at 28mm):

Awesome, I can barely handhold a single 1:1 macro shot.

[Doundounba]

Very cool...

That is so awesome!
Eric

Awesome, I can barely handhold a single 1:1 macro shot.

Thanks all! Very happy with that shot. I'd only been able to do a single flake macro session this winter up to that point.

BTW, it's not nearly as hard as the magnification makes it out to be, IMHO, because the flakes are right on a hard (and narrow) surface. This allows me to put the fingers of my left hand on the railing where the snow is, and then support the camera and lens using my left hand (and wrist) as a kind of monopod. Finding an interesting flake is the hardest part. I then use peaking to move the camera in order to focus a bit beyond the flake I want to shoot. I then trigger the shutter (I used Continuous Medium here) and pull the camera slowly back, trying to keep the framing as constant as possible. I do this at least a few times, and hope one sequence gives a good series of stackable shots. For the flakes in the shot above, I had eight attempts that looked good enough to send into the stacking software, and then I picked the one who's framing I liked best.

Here's another one from the same session. A bigger flake, but perhaps not quite as photogenic? Five-shot stack this time. Roughly the same magnification.

[savoche]

The DFA100 performs brilliantly as a short tele as well as for macro work. Walked by this dugout canoe used for fishing on one of the northern beaches of São Tomé.

[bobbotron]

The DFA100 performs brilliantly as a short tele as well as for macro work. Walked by this dugout canoe used for fishing on one of the northern beaches of São Tomé.

I agree, I've always enjoyed mine for that! Nice photo!

[rayallen]

Ferraris at local Gosford Classic Car Museum. The lighting is not the best with lots of translucent roof panels but the cars are magnificent.
There's more than $70 million worth of exotic and classic cars here. Mouth watering stuff.

La Ferrari





Ferrari 250 Testarossa



Ferrari Enzo

[WPRESTO]

Been posting images from a trip to the Appalachians on several threads, might as well put one here so the K3 gets a little credit..

[Weldon Berger]

We finally had some snow during the day at a time when I had a few moments free to shoot some flake macros!

That's exquisite.

[savoche]

A wintery picture from closer to home. Fog banks filling up the valleys below Budor, Norway.

K-3 + DA70

[Weldon Berger]

Not a birder because I can't sit still long enough, but this guy was very cooperative, just singing away. Ornithologist friend of mine told me what it is and that they're indigenous to India but were imported to Hawai'i as pet songbirds. Escaped in sufficient numbers to build a thriving wild population. Shot with the 100mm F2.8 WR.

[normhead]

I guess this should be here.... from 24hours ago.
K-3 and DA* 200 with HD 1.4 TTC

[Canada_Rockies]

Handsome fellow, Norm.