I love photography...

[Pompey306mark]

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.

[Curt]

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

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.

[Curt]

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







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


DSC_9527 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_9505 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_9503 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr

[MissTap_GTI6]

So beautiful Curt!

[Curt]

Cheers Eli

[Niall]

Compensating for something Curt?

Looking good!

[Curt]

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

(I know what you meant, douche )

Cheers mate.

[Curt]

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


DSC_9927 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_9933 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_9936 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_9970 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_9976 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr

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

[Chris_90]

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

[Curt]

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

[Chris_90]

Cheers . It's a bit hard to take macro pictures of cars . 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)

[Curt]

Yeah, close up

[martyn92]

Amazing work Crazy set up and quite scarey looking

[Curt]

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

[Curt]

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

As per usual, none are Photoshopped.


DSC_4032 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_4041 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_4043 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_4046 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_4047 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_4048 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_4049 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr


DSC_4052 by Curtis Footman, on Flickr

[Grant]

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?




Cheers

[Curt]

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-Magnesi...ann+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-M...rotto+330b

[silverzx]

Thats some epic camera lense and flashes!

Photos are pretty cool too!!