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Kate
25-04-2005, 17:45
Was walking around the garden last week, and some nice moss on a rock caught my eye. I fetched my camera and snapped a few pics with the help of an extension tube.
http://www.roguesgallery.com/pix/moss01a.jpg

I love the colours, but felt the photo was missing something.. so I had another go yesterday armed with a plant mister to give a dewy effect. Some of the heads had also turned red and some had gone to seed. Added something to the colour I think :)
http://www.roguesgallery.com/pix/moss09a.jpg
http://www.roguesgallery.com/pix/moss05a.jpg
Kate
25-04-2005, 17:46
http://www.roguesgallery.com/pix/moss07a.jpg
http://www.roguesgallery.com/pix/moss08a.jpg
http://www.roguesgallery.com/pix/moss10a.jpg
http://www.roguesgallery.com/pix/moss06a.jpg

Comments/tips for improvement would be muchly appreciated :)
matty
25-04-2005, 17:49
wow!

the dof on these shots is amazing, and the detail is stunning on the close up of the water droplet, cnt help thinking a couple of them are a little soft though, you manually focusing or AF?
MyPix
25-04-2005, 17:53
wow!

the dof on these shots is amazing, and the detail is stunning on the close up of the water droplet, cnt help thinking a couple of them are a little soft though, you manually focusing or AF?

or is it the jpg compression used to post em has made em soft ??

nice pix
MP :)
Kate
25-04-2005, 18:03
wow!

the dof on these shots is amazing, and the detail is stunning on the close up of the water droplet, cnt help thinking a couple of them are a little soft though, you manually focusing or AF?
They're not as soft as they look on here. Like MyPix says, some of it is compression.

I was focussing manually, and I had a hell of a job doing it too! Came upstairs to load the first lot onto the computer and found that they were a fraction of a milimetre out of focus, so I had to go back and take some more. Highly frustrating! I was even using a manfrotto slidey head thing (pic below), which I stole off my Dad so that I didn't have to keep moving the tripod back and forth all the time. All that focussing made my eyes go funny. Couldn't see a thing when I looked away from the eyepiece. Eventually, the sun went in and I had to give up! lol

Thanks for the comments :)

Manfrotto slidey head thing:
http://www.roguesgallery.com/pix/slideyheadthing.jpg
IanC_UK
25-04-2005, 18:07
Manfrotto slidey head thing:


Love the technical terminology ! ;) sounds like me on a good day ! ;)

Great pics, i bet the originals compressionless are brilliant ! :)
dod
25-04-2005, 19:23
The first one in both posts and the third in the second are fantastic. You've been taking some great shots lately :)
Digital SPG
25-04-2005, 20:11
First one in the first post looks realy sureal. Almost alien. I like that. Nice Macro work 8) Also the third one in the second post.
Kate
25-04-2005, 21:22
Wow! Thanks for the comments guys :) I didn't think they were that good :D

So..... I probably shouldn't be asking this because there are other OcUK'ers on here but.... which one should I pick for 'The Natural World' comp? :p
Digital SPG
25-04-2005, 21:32
First one gets my vote.
jewel
26-04-2005, 14:44
Wow Kate those are all great shots, my favorite is #4 though. Very cool!

Jewel :D