Post Your Best Nature Shots!

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Originally Posted by Fred Doane

<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"]Ok so here's my attempt at a nature shot but I have to admit it wasn't quitea nature shot. I found this little guy outside and brought him inside for a little photo shoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"] Don't worry I released him the second I was done right where I found him. I used two 32" umbrellas with 2-580 EX II speed lights for main and fill light and a 580 EX as a hair (antennae?) light and a ST-E2 transmitter to set the flashes off.


<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"]1Ds Mark III, 24-105 L IS @ 105mm, Canon 25mm extension tube, F16, iso 100, 1/100

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Fred,


Shame you don't have better gear. That could have been a really nice shot! [:D] Just kidding. of course, it is a very good shot. It doesn't matter that it was staged. It came out very well.

Thanks guys,





Jon - it was a horizontal shot so I cropped the left and right sides and resized. He was probably about 4 inches long so I didn't need a super macro lens for the shot the 24-105 with the extension tube did the trick. A macro lens is one of the things on my list though.





HiFiGuy1 - Gotta start out somewhere I'll try upgrading my equipment as soon as I come up with some money [;)]

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Originally Posted by Fred Doane

HiFiGuy1 - Gotta start out somewhere I'll try upgrading my equipment as soon as I come up with some money [img]/emoticons/emotion-5.gif[/img]
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I understand. Hey, when you're ready, let me know, I'll take your old junk of your hands. Of course, I couldn't give much for it, mostly I suppose I'd be doing you a favor by giving it a new home. I'm just sentimental that way, I guess. [:)]

Great shot Fred!

Best? probably not but found this 2-3 foot black snake today hiking:http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/h...8/IMG_8969.jpg


taken from about a foot away (she was calm for some reason: either molting or breeding)


24-70 f2.8 w/ XTi


70mm AV:2.8 Shutter: 1/640 AV mode ISO 100

Camera: 50D, Lens: 17-85, Focal length: 85mm, Mode: Av, Aperture: f/5.6, Shutter: 1/320, ISO: 100.


Shot as RAW, converted to JPEG using DPP. Contrast: +1, Highlight: 0, Shadow: -1, Color tone: 0, Color saturation: +1, Sharpness: +4.


Resized to 800x533 and then unsharp mask was applied 5 times with Radius: 0.2 and Amount: 100%.


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I found this out in our shop this morning...


It was taken with a Hand-held 40D and a MPE-65mm f/16 1/60 sec ISO 500.





I really need to get a macro rail and the twin light macro flash !!!


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Playing hide and seek!


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Technically not the best picture but the caption in combination with the picture made me laugh!

I agree :D...


I posted it cus i thought it was funny...