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Jan Bøgh - 27 Apr 2006 16:30 GMT

Hi

Todat I tried another use of my 300 mm than the ususal. I have retrieved my
very old extension tubes without any kind of automatics and combined the
whole set with my good, old and very faithful 300 mm and a flash.

http://jan.boegh.net/Album/AdHoc/slides/2006.04.27-16.46.19.html

A few examples of the result here:

http://jan.boegh.net/Album/Natur/skoven/slides/2006.04.27-11.12.55.html
http://jan.boegh.net/Album/Natur/skoven/slides/2006.04.27-11.14.html
http://jan.boegh.net/Album/Natur/skoven/slides/2006.04.27-11.40.01.html

It's a very different way of doing closeups, but I find it quite rewarding.

regards

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A few photos can be found on http://jan.boegh.net/foto.htm

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silvercelt - 29 Apr 2006 14:01 GMT

They are not nice photos, I like the second and third one best

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Kernix - 08 May 2006 18:28 GMT

How far away are you from the subjects? To me they look like they could
have used a flash to punch up the brightness - they look a little
underexposed or just flat due to the lack of light. Composisiton is
fine though.

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Jan Bøgh - 08 May 2006 20:31 GMT

Kernix skrev i 1147109317.434166.16630@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com
dette:

> How far away are you from the subjects? To me they look like they
> could have used a flash to punch up the brightness - they look a
> little underexposed or just flat due to the lack of light.
> Composisiton is fine though.

A couples of meters. And I have used a little flash - iirc 1/4th af full
power from a Nikon SB-800 flash.
The two first is as I intended, when it comes to exposure - I wanted to pass
on the feeling of a dark forrest flor to the spectator. I think You can see
the use of flash on the second (the anemone) - the almost absolutely lack of
shadow from the stamens.

My reason for posting was I found it a little curious to use a 300 mm for
closeups. Usually I would have used my 100 mm Macro instead.

This weekend I used my 300 mm i a more usual way:
http://jan.boegh.net/Album/Natur/skoven/slides/2006.05.07-13.31.03.html
A real wild roe deer. I used between 1 and 2 hours to get reasonable near
the creature. Next time in a zoo :-)

regards
Jan

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A few photos can be found on http://jan.boegh.net/foto.htm
Pics from an old part of Lisboa in Portugal:
http://jan.boegh.net/Album/Verden/Lissabon/Alfama/slides/_DSC0244.html

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Kernix - 08 May 2006 21:30 GMT

Well, I've read and agree is that the best use of flash is when you
can;t tell that a flash was used.

The 300 mm gave you the nice shallow dof which is nice.

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