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The magnificent rufilata! by _papilio, on Flickr
Hi all!
I was finally talked into tossing some of my photos up here on AB. I've been posting them on flickr for about the past 6 months ... but this is a much tougher crowd!
Nearly all of these photos have been taken since late Summer when I got my current camera, a Nikon D7000. The lens I use primarily for Ts is a Tokina AT-X PRO 100mm F2.8 D Macro, which I've found to be a fantastic performer. Most of the photos (not including the following one, for reasons explained there) are fairly high resolution, so if you'd like the best view of a particular photo I'd suggest that you click through to flickr, then click on the blue link immediately beneath the image to open the 1920px png which I uploaded. Unfortunately it takes an image that large to begin to display the detail visible on the full-res images.
Just this past week I've begun experimenting with an improvised 18mm wide-angle macro, as I've always been keen to get that somewhat fisheye effect which is typical of most point and shoots in macro mode -- I think that it gives a far more dynamic feeling to the image than is possible with a long-focus macro. This lens is actually just a cheap Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR kit lens combined with a Nikon PK-11a extension tube, adding a mere 8mm between the body and the lens. I found that this allows the lens, at the 18mm point in its zoom range, to focus as close as a cm rather than its normal 12 inches or so. For a more detailed description please see the notes below this image by clicking through to its flickr page ...
Are you my mother? by _papilio, on Flickr
By modifying the aperture tab on the Nikkor, I'm now able to use this lens at about f/8 rather than the f/32 to which it snapped during the initial tests, and my first photo shoot with this lens turned out as well as I could have hoped ... I really love the feel of the perspective it gives! I'll begin this thread by posting some from that session, photos of a very friendly 2.5-inch GBB. It kept climbing up onto the lens!
I used key back-lighting for these images, provided by an 8" by 10" diffuser on a stationary optically triggered slave, with the strobe on the camera bracket at its lowest setting just to provide some soft fill.
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
I need a hug! by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
... as they say on eBay, Thanks for looking!
The magnificent rufilata! by _papilio, on Flickr
Hi all!
I was finally talked into tossing some of my photos up here on AB. I've been posting them on flickr for about the past 6 months ... but this is a much tougher crowd!
Nearly all of these photos have been taken since late Summer when I got my current camera, a Nikon D7000. The lens I use primarily for Ts is a Tokina AT-X PRO 100mm F2.8 D Macro, which I've found to be a fantastic performer. Most of the photos (not including the following one, for reasons explained there) are fairly high resolution, so if you'd like the best view of a particular photo I'd suggest that you click through to flickr, then click on the blue link immediately beneath the image to open the 1920px png which I uploaded. Unfortunately it takes an image that large to begin to display the detail visible on the full-res images.
Just this past week I've begun experimenting with an improvised 18mm wide-angle macro, as I've always been keen to get that somewhat fisheye effect which is typical of most point and shoots in macro mode -- I think that it gives a far more dynamic feeling to the image than is possible with a long-focus macro. This lens is actually just a cheap Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR kit lens combined with a Nikon PK-11a extension tube, adding a mere 8mm between the body and the lens. I found that this allows the lens, at the 18mm point in its zoom range, to focus as close as a cm rather than its normal 12 inches or so. For a more detailed description please see the notes below this image by clicking through to its flickr page ...
Are you my mother? by _papilio, on Flickr
By modifying the aperture tab on the Nikkor, I'm now able to use this lens at about f/8 rather than the f/32 to which it snapped during the initial tests, and my first photo shoot with this lens turned out as well as I could have hoped ... I really love the feel of the perspective it gives! I'll begin this thread by posting some from that session, photos of a very friendly 2.5-inch GBB. It kept climbing up onto the lens!
I used key back-lighting for these images, provided by an 8" by 10" diffuser on a stationary optically triggered slave, with the strobe on the camera bracket at its lowest setting just to provide some soft fill.
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
I need a hug! by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 2.5-inch juvie, wide-angle by _papilio, on Flickr
... as they say on eBay, Thanks for looking!
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