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Couple of portraits from my garden

Postby Flyer on Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:42 pm

Full frame shots.
Taken with Sigma 105 DG EX with reversed 50mm f1.4 AIS at the front.

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Postby Marvin on Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:31 am

Wow - I love the second one. It looks like an alien!
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Postby sheepie on Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:37 am

ummm WOW! (that's 2 wow's in a row!)

...but you need to get yourself better looking models!

How do you get them to stay still enough to get the focus, etc.?
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Postby admajic on Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:53 pm

Im glad the buggers are so small. Super ugly. 2nd shot is a winner!!
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:59 pm

Superb macro Arek - you’ve done it again :D
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Postby cawdor on Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:17 pm

#2 is awesome. Well done to capture this.
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:22 pm

Arek

Superb macros as usual from you. Thanks for sharing these. #1 in particular with the critter biting the stem is a cracker.
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Postby Critter on Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:17 pm

stubbsy wrote:the critter biting the stem is a cracker.


It wasn't me I swears...
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Postby xorl on Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:02 pm

Impressive.. Would you be able to post a centre 1:1 crop from the unresized image? It would be interesting to see how the reversed 50mm lens performs.

I've been thinking of combining my 50mm & 105mm lenses, but haven't got around to getting the adapter yet. Too bad the stores aren't open, I'd pick one up right now after seeing this :).
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Postby Flyer on Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:32 pm

stubbsy wrote:Arek

Superb macros as usual from you. Thanks for sharing these. #1 in particular with the critter biting the stem is a cracker.


Thanks Peter, but it is not what it looks like...
The "stem" is actually out of focus right antenna (spelling?) of this bug (id anyone?)

xorl wrote:Impressive.. Would you be able to post a centre 1:1 crop from the unresized image? It would be interesting to see how the reversed 50mm lens performs.



I've uploaded 100% crops.
Just click on thumbnails below to go to my gallery & select original size ("O").
Not sure how to link thumbnail stright to the original size...:?:

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Postby xorl on Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:52 am

Thanks for posting the crops Arek, they look amazing!
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