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Photo posted by Mark Seaver in the Macro & Close-up gallery on 06/15/17 at 7:13 pm EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
Post last edited by Mark Seaver on 07/22/17 at 2:22 pm EST
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
seaverphotos.com
Weekly Challenge Moderator
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Comment posted by Shirley Freeman on 06/16/17 at 10:19 am EST
Registered on 05/27/17, 77 Posts, 844 Comments
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Nice face on capture, Mark. I love that background with the different tones of color, yet totally out o focus. I wish whatever that is on the pedal of the flower wasn't there, but I don't think there is any way to clone that out. Thank you for providing the name of him, and that he is male. I have a lot of learning to do on identification of the creatures that I am photographing. You mentioned in another post that you have extension tubes, have you tried to use them with this lens? Works pretty good for a fill the frame with dragonflies and butterlies, etc.
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Shirley Freeman
Saint Pauls, North Carolina
www.freemansphotos.com
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." Ansel Adams |
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Comment posted by Don Young on 06/16/17 at 3:30 pm EST
Registered on 04/23/15, 56 Posts, 224 Comments
Very nice detail, especially in the wings! Background goes well with the subject and lighting works well. Is the little critter smiling?
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on 06/17/17 at 10:49 am EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
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Shirley, this is a full frame image. Yes, extension tubes can improve close focusing, but when using this lens at 400mm, adding extension doesn't help a lot. The extra magnification goes as the ratio of the tube length to the lens focal length, so for 40mm of extension tubes at 400 mm focal length, you gain 10% in magnification. For this lens at 400 mm and closest focus that would increase your magnification from 0.31X to 0.34X. I haven't tried this lens with my old 1.4X tele extender (version 1), but when I tried that TE with my Canon 180mm macro, I could see the extra softness.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
seaverphotos.com
Weekly Challenge Moderator
Macro/Close Up Moderator |
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Comment posted by Shirley Freeman on 06/17/17 at 7:19 pm EST
Registered on 05/27/17, 77 Posts, 844 Comments
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Mark, I think I was misleading in my comment. I didn't think about it even being taken that way. At the time I was thinking about how I had tried out those extension tubes last year on the 100-400mm to make a long macro lens of sorts, and thought I would see if you ever tried it, not realizing that my comment was sounded like you could have had a full frame of this image if you had tried that! My goof. No, I think this shot is very nice, and certainly full frame. I just wanted to share a technique that I had learned. I never want to hold back anything that I have learned that works well, in my opinion. I will try to post one of my shots that I took last year using that set-up and see how you and others on here seem to like or dislike. What I find that the extension tube did for me was to allow me to focus closer, hence a macro lens of sorts for the skittish critters like butterflies.
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Shirley Freeman
Saint Pauls, North Carolina
www.freemansphotos.com
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." Ansel Adams |
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Comment posted by Yun Gao on 06/18/17 at 10:20 am EST
Registered on 09/11/12, 267 Posts, 1621 Comments
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Mark, I like the head on view. Nice floral perch and a fine background.
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Comment posted by Ed Williams on 06/18/17 at 4:59 pm EST
Registered on 12/28/10, 636 Posts, 3499 Comments
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The BG and overall color is exceptional Mark. You nailed the DOF on the DF and the lily too. Those eyes are great.
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Ed Williams
www.chasindaylight.com
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Comment posted by scott lanz on 06/20/17 at 9:54 pm EST
Registered on 11/14/03, 840 Posts, 12902 Comments
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Beautiful dragonfly image, Mark. Terrific bg. Excellent dof managment for both the subject and bg.
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scott lanz
Youngstown, Ohio
www.lanzscape.com |
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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on 06/23/17 at 8:10 pm EST
Registered on 07/21/04, 706 Posts, 3233 Comments
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I meant to comment on this earlier, Mark. It's a really nice image with good focus in the right places. While the colorful BG might otherwise compete for attention, it works well with your framing.
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Bill
Mississippi Gulf Coast |
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"They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins..."
Walt Whitman
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The colors and detail are beautifully captured, 
