Author Topic: Photographs taken by Members (Read 124332 times)

Rocketvapor · « **Reply #30 on:** June 28, 2018, 02:04:33 PM »

FZ70, Program mode did all the thinkin

Click for higher resolution.

Scratch · « **Reply #31 on:** June 28, 2018, 03:01:43 PM »

Those are great pics!

Rocketvapor · « **Reply #32 on:** June 28, 2018, 03:12:46 PM »

It's fun and I'm learning more as I go.
Like the grasshopper is a
Brachystola magna

FZ70: and this moth is a Skipper, not a moth.
He looks really happy

Scratch · « **Reply #33 on:** June 28, 2018, 06:23:34 PM »

I'm assuming you're using a tripod to get these great shots? How are these bugs letting you get that close to them with a big setup?

Rocketvapor · « **Reply #34 on:** June 28, 2018, 07:29:23 PM »

Actually hand held for the last few shots I posted.
Tripod is necessary with the DSLR, Bellows, and zoom lens.
I turn on 'Live-View' zoom with 3X (3x is the max on Macro with the FZ70) and move the camera slowly toward the little critter. Snapping as I go. Lots of shots wasted.
I was outside and the Skipper flew right up in front of me and smiled. I had to go inside, get the camera and come back.

Here's some I just took. Light is fading so I might not have caught a good one.
You can see me getting closer and closer. Look at the image IDs in the first attachment to see how many I trashed

Had to use ISO 400 and with the FZ70 it starts to grain up. The K-r can go much higher.
Here's the last pic in the group resized as an attachment; Attach #2.
Attachment 3 is a crop of attachment 2 to show how light affects exposure setting.
Some movement, and grain. Not worth keeping.

Rocketvapor · « **Reply #35 on:** June 29, 2018, 10:56:29 AM »

Compare this Macro to the bug on the finger attachment.
Cool stuff out there in the world of little creatures.

I like my DSLR and the collection of lenses I have but the Super Zoom is hard to beat. All the major brands have them.
Macros one moment, a button press, spin a dial, click whir, and you can shoot Anticrepuscular rays around sunset.

This little guy is tiny (1st Attachment). I can't even see the colors with the naked eye unless I magnify him. Camo is effective. Looks white.

Then the little nymphs are so cute. I guess the pointed 4 segment proboscis is a little scary though

Rocketvapor · « **Reply #36 on:** June 30, 2018, 11:52:15 PM »

Found this guy crawling across the kitchen floor. Marching on to somewhere. Probably to take a bath.
Put him outside in the rain. FZ70, f/2.8, 4 shots ranged from 1/60" to 1/13", ISO 400.

KW · « **Reply #37 on:** July 02, 2018, 10:59:13 AM »

Quote from: Rocketvapor on June 30, 2018, 11:52:15 PM

Found this guy crawling across the kitchen floor. Marching on to somewhere. Probably to take a bath.
Put him outside in the rain. FZ70, f/2.8, 4 shots ranged from 1/60" to 1/13", ISO 400.

Cicadas are fun. I used to collect a few each year as a kid and watch them transform.

Filroy77 · « **Reply #38 on:** July 02, 2018, 01:14:50 PM »

Quote from: KW on July 02, 2018, 10:59:13 AM

Quote from: Rocketvapor on June 30, 2018, 11:52:15 PM
Found this guy crawling across the kitchen floor. Marching on to somewhere. Probably to take a bath.
Put him outside in the rain. FZ70, f/2.8, 4 shots ranged from 1/60" to 1/13", ISO 400.

Cicadas are fun. I used to collect a few each year as a kid and watch them transform.

So that's how we got Hilary and the like!

Filroy77 · « **Reply #39 on:** July 02, 2018, 09:20:34 PM »

Tiny green spider on a maintenance stand.

Enlarged screen shot and rotated

thresher_593 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 04, 2018, 08:55:21 AM »

This is a sassafrass tree that got hit by lightning Monday. Blew pieces over 100 feet. One piece was about the size of a landscape timber, around 6'-0" long, and it speared 3' into the ground. Had to pull it out with the tractor.

Ruined a perfectly good set of shorts as well. It was loud!

https://imgur.com/ANeDXos
https://imgur.com/lK0AlBx
https://imgur.com/jncIIDH

Pictures taken with a GE X400 El Cheapo Digi Cam

Onepoint · « **Reply #41 on:** July 04, 2018, 11:08:27 AM »

Yikes, about 4 or 5 years ago we had a cottonwood get hit in our pasture, blew bark pieces 80 - 100 yards away. Killed the branch it ran down, and I noticed it was swelled in spots. The whole half of the top eventually fell off.

thresher_593 · « **Reply #42 on:** July 04, 2018, 12:17:05 PM »

Yeah lightning can do a lot of damage. We're going to cut that tree out of there. It's been there as long as I can remember.

Rocketvapor · « **Reply #43 on:** July 07, 2018, 09:37:35 AM »

Quote from: thresher_593 on July 04, 2018, 08:55:21 AM

Ruined a perfectly good set of shorts as well. It was loud!

Pictures taken with a GE X400 El Cheapo Digi Cam

Nice pictures. The X400 lacks the Super Zoom but is a very good value vs features for the $$, for portraits, groups, very wide scenic pics.

Took this one with a little more zoom at the Columbus, Ohio petting zoo