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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-22-2024, 05:03 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-20-2024, 02:29 PM
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Thanks Mike! Yeah the lighting helps that look. Renders them more opaque rather than see through. Not many snowflake photogs shoot in this manner, most are straight down and back + side lit.
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01-20-2024, 11:53 AM
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01-18-2024, 11:47 AM
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Thanks Mike! I'm glad it finally snowed here. Not just for pictures but for the environment too. I hope Jan-March can catch up or our rivers are going to be really low this year.
They really are!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-17-2024, 02:36 PM
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12-12-2023, 05:22 PM
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Thanks cubefarmer! It was a lovely waterfall. Wish there was a touch more water but this wasn't too bad. With more water I probably wouldn't have been able to get to this spot specifically.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Thank you kindly!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-09-2023, 01:11 PM
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Thanks! Yeah I was loving the browns of the grass behind with the dark brown of the flower.
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Much appreciated!
Thanks Othar!
Ha, thanks TT! High praise indeed. We'll have to see if I can remember to enter it. Perhaps I will try next year's Colour Awards.
Glad I could inspire! It's hard to find inspiration when it's so muddy and brown everywhere. The lens is beautifully suited for this kind of close up photography.
Thanks ignath! yeah I really like how the lens renders the bokeh, it's so velvety and smooth.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-08-2023, 08:45 AM
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Haha! Something like that. or maybe, instead of a skeleton (because bees don't have skeletons) maybe a zombie bee.... hmmm
And thanks! The lens did most of the work here.
Thanks Mike! My brain has a hard time with this image. On the one hand, the flowers are beauty, but then they're also so withered and lifeless...
Thanks! Really needed some inspiration yesterday. The forecasts keep lying and the snow never comes. I miss the white. I miss the crystals...
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-07-2023, 07:49 PM
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Thanks TT! Still feel bad about that mix up,.. hope all is well!
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I should add an AI bee 'skeleton' for fun haha
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
12-07-2023, 07:37 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-07-2023, 07:35 PM
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No more snow yet. Just mud, dead brown plants and grey skies. Tried to break it up a bit with some closeup with the 31mm ltd.
 DeadFlowerFall2023-2 by Greg Murray, on Flickr
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-07-2023, 07:32 PM
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Glad i'm an inspiration! I need more snow though! ugh.
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12-07-2023, 01:20 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-06-2023, 07:12 AM
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Thanks!
No, I use an LED bulb to light my crystals. It's the only way to control the lighting to get exactly what I want and I can also change it to capture a second, different look if the conditions allow. I also do most of my imagery at night when temperatures are more favourable.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-04-2023, 08:00 PM
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K3II the fastest pixel shift operates is 1s and then it takes another second to process and then like 2 more to write to card. It burns up a lot of time. Even when it's cold, the crystals can still sublimate. I usually only have a minute, maybe 2 or 3 to actually work with the crystal before it sublimates too much. But if it is sublimating fast, pixel shift just needs to be avoided, because it'll cause artifacts.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-04-2023, 09:29 AM
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Thanks!
hmmm PSR for this kind of photography... it needs to be used sparingly and with careful observation. crystals not only melt, but they sublimate too. so if conditions aren't right, it'll slightly shift during the exposure causing the typical PSR artifacts one sees with moving objects. I got lucky with this shot. I thought I would have to develop the images in a software that doesn't combine the PSR file. It was a risk, at only -1C, the crystals were melting. This one was melting, you can tell by how glassy it looks and the rounded tips. I was just lucky that it was melting slowly and didn't really shrink at all between frames. Also, PSR can take a long time to finish each frame, which increases the risk that the crystal will shrink too much before you get through all the focus slices.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-03-2023, 07:48 PM
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11-25-2023, 09:52 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-17-2023, 11:57 AM
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 | Night M51
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it's certainly a challenging niche! toying with idea of selling my DSO rig to buy snowflake gear.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-17-2023, 10:23 AM
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| | Night M51
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Thanks! It's an old one. Hopefully I've gotten better now!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-17-2023, 09:48 AM
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It was the rails (not needed to mod the neewer), lead screw, lockcollars and 2 t-nuts. Honestly, it was so easy to convert the neewer it is so worth it to buy. The lead screw I bought was 8mm in diameter with 1mm lead, 1mm pitch. I gutted the main portion of the neewer & epoxied 2 t-nuts in on either side of it so that the lead screw was better stabilized. I ran the lead screw through both nuts and through the camera carriage with the 2 8mm lock collars on either side so that the carriage actually moves. i can dm a picture later if you'd like.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-17-2023, 08:22 AM
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I have a few. Usually it's the first thing i photograph because before snow comes, I get frost. I miss snowflake season too much to not shoot at least one frost floret. :) And I used frost one year to test the 4x plan against my 50mm macro when i first bought the microscope objective.
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Thanks!
Yeah my FoV here is a mere 5mm which makes the biggest frost floret no larger than 0.5mm. Though in the scheme of things 5mm is huge. If these were snowflakes this size (which many can be) I'd probably use my 10x objective. 0.5mm is small.
The depth of field is also tiny though, haha. probably around 0.2mm for the 4x and more like 0.05mm for the 10x objective. ;)
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
11-16-2023, 06:59 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-16-2023, 06:58 PM
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What's it used for now? very cool building with fascinating history!
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11-16-2023, 06:56 PM
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I've chased a few around before. They're so skittish and always on the move!
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