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RE: I love photography... - Pompey306mark - 02-09-2013

You must wait around for ages in the garden waiting for these guys.

I fluked on a butterfly on exmoor, he basically landed at my feet whilst I was on the highest peak, but only had 150-500 lens which is not great close up.

Taken off Facebook.
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RE: I love photography... - Curt - 03-09-2013

Nah not really, my nan has a nice garden with lots of stuff that attracts them Smile

150-500 would be okay with a tripod... I shoot my 55-300 for this mostly, albeit with extension tubes. But I got some decent ones with it before without, tricky handheld obviously.

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 05-09-2013

So, finished the macro rig today. Needs a few adjustments, and obviously I only have one diffuser:

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Had a 5 minute play, really need a tripod for this now though lol

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RE: I love photography... - MissTap_GTI6 - 05-09-2013

So beautiful Curt!

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 05-09-2013

Cheers Eli Smile

RE: I love photography... - Niall - 05-09-2013

Compensating for something Curt? Wink

Looking good!

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 05-09-2013

Yes, actually... The extension tubes causing a ridiculously small DOF requiring a high f-stop and therefore a distinct lack of light Wink.

(I know what you meant, douche lol )

Cheers mate.

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 12-09-2013

Few more from today for anyone that's interested... These were with my 50mm prime and 32mm of extension tube:

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I need to come up with a better way of diffusing the light.

RE: I love photography... - Chris_90 - 12-09-2013

Them pics are amazing! Need to get some pictures of cars tho lol

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 12-09-2013

Cheers Smile. It's a bit hard to take macro pictures of cars lol. Well, apart from very small parts of one...

RE: I love photography... - Chris_90 - 12-09-2013

(12-09-2013, 09:03 PM)Curt Wrote: Cheers Smile. It's a bit hard to take macro pictures of cars lol. Well, apart from very small parts of one...

What does macro mean? Close up? (sorry don't no nothing about this stuff wanting to learn tho)

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 12-09-2013

Yeah, close up Smile

RE: I love photography... - martyn92 - 12-09-2013

Amazing work Smile Crazy set up and quite scarey looking Tongue

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 12-09-2013

Cheers Smile haha, luckily I can cut it down a bit and make it more compact with the prime lens, bit more arm friendly at least!

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 05-11-2013

May as well shove these in here, as it's photography related...

As per usual, none are Photoshopped.

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RE: I love photography... - Grant - 06-11-2013

So could you explain what exactly is going on here with the lense? And where did you get the ball joint mounts for the flashes?

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Cheers Smile

RE: I love photography... - Curt - 06-11-2013

The lens is just a 55-300 with macro extension tubes attached... More recently I was using my 35mm f1.8G as it made it a lot easier to handle and gave sharper results. The downside being I had to be much closer and you can only focus by moving the whole camera. With a zoom lens, you can use the zoom to focus as well which helps.

The ball mounts were a nightmare to find, I ended up buying 2 mini tripods to steal them from. You can find them easily on Amazon, it's just cheap ones are shite. I only used them once, since then I ran without them as there were too many places to move/come out of adjustment.

So it's basically just a Manfrotto 330B now, the speedlights I use offer enough adjustment for me.

Here's the tripod: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cullmann-Magnesit-Multiple-Includes-CB2-7/dp/B0045HKJZU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383741423&sr=8-1&keywords=cullmann+tripod (gone up £3 since I got them).

Very handy little tripod actually, I kept one and gave the other to my Mum.

Here's the mount:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manfrotto-330B-Macro-Bracket-Support/dp/B0010SD1WK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383741511&sr=8-1&keywords=manfrotto+330b

Smile

RE: I love photography... - silverzx - 06-11-2013

Thats some epic camera lense and flashes! Tongue

Photos are pretty cool too!!