SnoWolf Posted January 6, 2013 Author Posted January 6, 2013 No, thank you. It was your posts on photography that got me inspired. I have always had a thing for photography and have been enjoying playing around with my camera. I'm thinking about going threw my pictures and making a slide show as I have a fair amount of accidental awesome pics... Think this birthday may be the year I get a DSLR... 1 Quote
Garhan Posted January 6, 2013 Posted January 6, 2013 No, thank you. It was your posts on photography that got me inspired. I have always had a thing for photography and have been enjoying playing around with my camera. I'm thinking about going threw my pictures and making a slide show as I have a fair amount of accidental awesome pics... Think this birthday may be the year I get a DSLR... Fairly easy to do isnt it. Quote
SnoWolf Posted January 6, 2013 Author Posted January 6, 2013 Yes. Easy enough I believe however very time consuming since I'm sure u have a cpl thousand pics stored in no particular order. Maybe I'll start small and just look at last summer. Quote
dipperdan Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 Jimmie you need more boxes!!!!! Bye and Bye great photos, I'm jealous , have to check Irene's camera if it can do some of this .... Quote
SnoWolf Posted January 25, 2013 Author Posted January 25, 2013 All of these exept the last one where taken with my Pentax W30 water proof camera. I now have a power shot S95 that im playing with and so far its great.. Thankfully a good portion of what I have been tying is for lakes so I dont have to carry them all day..... Quote
Garhan Posted January 27, 2013 Posted January 27, 2013 Jim can you crop it the picture so as to get it in closer to that Snowy. Quote
SnoWolf Posted February 8, 2013 Author Posted February 8, 2013 Workin on my skilz so thought I would share.. 2 Quote
DennisS Posted February 8, 2013 Posted February 8, 2013 Jim very nice flies and interesting combos. Also very nice picture taking at the same time. As I said before your streamer tying is getting very good Jim. Tight Lines Always Dennis S Quote
dipperdan Posted February 9, 2013 Posted February 9, 2013 I echo, and very nice , good on you, you gotsa lotsa time at those flys, Quote
SnoWolf Posted February 10, 2013 Author Posted February 10, 2013 Took a bit to get these wings right. Hopefuly they will get better and easier when tying the Bergmans.. 1 Quote
SnoWolf Posted February 11, 2013 Author Posted February 11, 2013 Thought I would share a pic of my studio I use for taking my fly pics.... Quote
DennisS Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 Jim that sure is one high tech photo room you have there. Again very interesting patterns. I like the swimmer very creative. Tight line Always. Dennis S Quote
dave robinson Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 Jim: You've made great strides in taking macro photos. The lighting is terriffic. I have one tip to help increase your depth of field. Use as small a lens opening as you can. This may requie more light or a tripod and a much slower shutter speed. F22 would be about the lower limit though or diffraction effects may start to show. You may want to try focus on the part of the fly closest to the camera and see if the furtherst part of the fly is still on focus Quote
SnoWolf Posted February 11, 2013 Author Posted February 11, 2013 Lol. Thx Dennis. Thx Dave. I like the artsy look some of the flies have with some parts being out of focus. However I was playing with it trying to get focus front to back and it did start to defract (white halo around edges). I think I understand why now so j will try again only I will open it up more each time till I find the sweet spot... Quote
dave robinson Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 (edited) In general, the smaller the lens opening, the greater the depth of field. If you get too small, then diffraction effects start to appear. This typically shows up as loss of contrast, (not halos). Halos may be due to internal lens reflections or reflections off bright objects in the field of view (shiny hooks?)Focusing so the nearest part of the object is just in focus will have the depth of field extend from there away from the camera.If the back of the object is out of focus then you'll have to compromize by focusing further from the camera.Opening the lens up will make the depth of field shallowerTry using a manual exposure and lengthen the exposure time. Anything over about 1/100 sec will need a tripodYou could aslo try increasing the ISO if your camera lets you adjust that.Just be careful of very high ISO settings as they can increase noise in the image Edited February 11, 2013 by dave robinson Quote
SnoWolf Posted February 15, 2013 Author Posted February 15, 2013 I thought what you where saying about the F22 contradicted what I had been reading so far. I went back and read through it again and you are of course right. I interpreted the F22 as being more for long distance and the small numbers as being for closer. All of this is correct but the part my mind failed to put together is that with the subject being approximately 8" from the lense that this would move the depth of field in closer but the principles in the way the aperture is set remain the same. I know there is tons more to it but I'm hoping I have this part figured... 1 Quote
dave robinson Posted February 15, 2013 Posted February 15, 2013 Your depth of field on these is way better DAve Quote
SnoWolf Posted February 15, 2013 Author Posted February 15, 2013 Thx Dave Your tutorship has been very helpful... Quote
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