Recent content by cheeseboy

Great shots! Were they focus stacked? And what lighting did you use?

Fantastic shot. Very different...

Who need an expensive off camera flash? (actually I wouldn't mind one, but I'd have to get one with an optical trigger to slave off my pop-up as I don't have a hot shoe). Here's my home made set up which works quite well... I normally have a paper towel taped over the front to act...

Not wanting to get off topic, bur Grum asked for details of my diffuser/extender that I use with the Raynox. I made a mockup with normal paper then when I was happy with the design, I opened it up and traced it onto black cardboard. I then glued aluminium foil to the inside and folded it up...

The DoF with the Raynox 250 is about 2mm when I use full zoom on my FZ35 (about 465mm I think). To get more DoF in my pictures I had to focus stack about four to six shots using CombineZP freeware. It's pretty easy to do... Let me know if you're interested and I'll see if I can dig up a...

I'll take some pics of it and post them tomorrow night.

Here are a few with my Panasonic FZ35 and DCR-250... Still learning how to use this thing. My homemade pop-up flash extender/diffuser isn't working as well as I hoped. Good fun though...