Empty Inside
Jul 29, 2014 23:47:54 #
Jul 30, 2014 03:32:44 #
Jul 30, 2014 09:16:07 #
Ha! I will try, 5-7-5
Molt
Desert of time runs
Seeking and devouring prey
My skin now leaves me
Molt
Desert of time runs
Seeking and devouring prey
My skin now leaves me
Jul 30, 2014 11:12:58 #
pfrancke wrote:
Oh boy...... and I thought I waxed the philosophical a bit too much... ;-) Desert of time runs
Seeking and devouring prey
My skin now leaves me
Seeking and devouring prey
My skin now leaves me
Good capture, tell us about how you setup this photo.
Jul 30, 2014 11:18:31 #
Jul 30, 2014 12:00:41 #
<grin> thank you guys, it was a stack on a cheap rail. I took two stacks with 20 shots or so each and ran each stack through Zerene creating one pmax and two dmax outputs (so I ended up with 6 Tiff files). The two pmax images got aligned in PS and I blended one of them in at 50 percent. Then the dmax images got layered in, but I had masks and only blended in pieces inside the spider.. I was curious what (if anything) this blending process would do.
I know with the stacking I failed to move in small enough increments and there is focus banding. And my damn sensor is getting dirty and leaving stack streaks.
Lighting.. a folded book with fanned paper facing you is holding up taped sheets of paper that is draped over the thing for diffusion. And had a flash shooting through the paper. Spider was standing on a circular block of wood.
Today I'm experimenting with shooting inside a Styrofoam cooler with the flash inside pointing at a cooler wall and screens between flash and bug to cut off direct light. It's working pretty good, I'm gonna shoot a stack on it soon.
I've been reading about this macro stuff for a couple of weeks and am now too addicted to this, and over the weekend temptation got the most of me and a stackshot is in the mail.
I only hope my wife doesn't skin me!!!
I know with the stacking I failed to move in small enough increments and there is focus banding. And my damn sensor is getting dirty and leaving stack streaks.
Lighting.. a folded book with fanned paper facing you is holding up taped sheets of paper that is draped over the thing for diffusion. And had a flash shooting through the paper. Spider was standing on a circular block of wood.
Today I'm experimenting with shooting inside a Styrofoam cooler with the flash inside pointing at a cooler wall and screens between flash and bug to cut off direct light. It's working pretty good, I'm gonna shoot a stack on it soon.
I've been reading about this macro stuff for a couple of weeks and am now too addicted to this, and over the weekend temptation got the most of me and a stackshot is in the mail.
I only hope my wife doesn't skin me!!!
Jul 30, 2014 12:25:15 #
A different wrinkle. I really like it. And it's very sharp and detailed.
Growing like crazy,
feeling swollen and confined.
Time to pop my top.
Growing like crazy,
feeling swollen and confined.
Time to pop my top.
Jul 30, 2014 13:25:37 #
Time to pop my top, made me LOL.
I felt very lucky with this spider shell, the light worked well with it - right on the edge of translucent.
I'm putting out a warning to all wasps. I was just outside fixing a fence row and over a 10 minute period I got stung maybe 6 times. (It DID give me an excuse to come in and drink a beer). I kicked one with my free leg while it was stinging my opposite ankle, but I couldn't find it's body.
Just saying, I will have no mercy on a wasp..
I felt very lucky with this spider shell, the light worked well with it - right on the edge of translucent.
I'm putting out a warning to all wasps. I was just outside fixing a fence row and over a 10 minute period I got stung maybe 6 times. (It DID give me an excuse to come in and drink a beer). I kicked one with my free leg while it was stinging my opposite ankle, but I couldn't find it's body.
Just saying, I will have no mercy on a wasp..
Jul 30, 2014 13:40:29 #
pfrancke wrote:
Reminds me of a time I was about 6 or 7 and we were crawling around in the hay barn and I took a different ladder down. Stepped on a huge hornet's nest. A dozen or so got inside my shirt. I set land speed records from the barn to the house, screaming/crying on my way to a sympathetic mother with a box of Arm&Hammer baking soda. That was "the cure" back then. :oops:I'm putting out a warning to all wasps. I was just outside fixing a fence row and over a 10 minute period I got stung maybe 6 times. (It DID give me an excuse to come in and drink a beer). I kicked one with my free leg while it was stinging my opposite ankle, but I couldn't find it's body.
Just saying, I will have no mercy on a wasp..
Just saying, I will have no mercy on a wasp..
Jul 30, 2014 15:00:54 #
LoneRangeFinder - You were young.. For me my story was as a teenager we were on a school hike and I was running down the trail. My head hit a nest... I got away scot-free, but the kids behind me got torn up. Nobody knew what happened and I didn't have the nerve to confess.
I suspect that baking soda works better than beer. I was going to pour it on the wound but ended up drinking it!!
I suspect that baking soda works better than beer. I was going to pour it on the wound but ended up drinking it!!
Aug 3, 2014 00:32:03 #
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