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Natures juice and refractions

nzmacronzmacro Registered Users Posts: 200 Major grins
edited June 17, 2005 in Holy Macro
Love shooting after the rain. We find insects all wet or with water drops on their eyes and of course, over vines and leaves we find drops with refractions.

"Lemon drops" Over the Pansy garden.

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"Purple Rain" Moving along and looking at other Pansies.

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"Just call me Daisy" Heading on over to a Daisy.

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So thats 3 but I warn ya, I have a ton of them :D , I'm a sucker for drops and refractions. :):

Danny.

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    USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2005
    Danny
    Amazing photos clap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gif
    Really nice
    Could you share you setup?

    Thanks
    Fred
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    BrianLowtherBrianLowther Registered Users Posts: 110 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2005
    Cool
    I like em.clap.gifclapclap.gifclapclap.gif

    Brian
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    nzmacronzmacro Registered Users Posts: 200 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2005
    USAIR wrote:
    Amazing photos clap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gif
    Really nice
    Could you share you setup?

    Thanks
    Fred
    Are you sure Fred ........ are you really sure mwink.gif . Ok, heres one I call the "Hades setup"

    cd10001.jpg

    Heavy and its always hand held thanks to the built in IS of the Sony CD-1000.

    And if you want the new FZ10 setup, its here

    http://www.macrophotos.com/nzmacro/articles/pmacro.htm

    All the best Fred and thanks folks mwink.gif

    Danny.
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    pete wpete w Registered Users Posts: 386 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2005
    Now thats a set up.
    Like the results a lot, well thought outclap.gifrolleyes1.gif
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    bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2005
    beatiful, precise work thumb.gif
    Much here for you to be proud of

    Guess I need to rethink my FZ and a couple closeup lens setup :lol
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,913 moderator
    edited June 16, 2005
    I'm constantly amazed by your macro work. Beautiful stuff.


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    HiggmeisterHiggmeister Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2005
    And I thought your bugs were monsters n/t
    ..
    nzmacro wrote:
    Are you sure Fred ........ are you really sure mwink.gif . Ok, heres one I call the "Hades setup"

    cd10001.jpg

    Heavy and its always hand held thanks to the built in IS of the Sony CD-1000.

    And if you want the new FZ10 setup, its here

    http://www.macrophotos.com/nzmacro/articles/pmacro.htm

    All the best Fred and thanks folks mwink.gif

    Danny.

    A picture is but words to the eyes.
    Comments are always welcome.

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    TristanPTristanP Registered Users Posts: 1,107 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2005
    Gorgeous shots on that link you provided. What ring flash is that and would it work on the F717 (58mm threads)?
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    Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited June 16, 2005
    Loved em all Danny thumb.gifthumb.gif But that middle one is definitely a POTD winner clap.gif Great framing, lovely colors and you can look at it for a long time iloveyou.gif

    BTW, you definitely have a serious set up eek7.gif

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    MuskyDudeMuskyDude Registered Users Posts: 1,508 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2005
    Just plain awesome Danny. clap.gif


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    nzmacronzmacro Registered Users Posts: 200 Major grins
    edited June 17, 2005
    TristanP wrote:
    Gorgeous shots on that link you provided. What ring flash is that and would it work on the F717 (58mm threads)?
    Thanks macroholics, very much appreciated. You are all too kind.

    Tristan, no reason why that wouldn't work on your 717, fine camera BTW. Its a Sunpak GX-8R. One of the few that are completely variable in its power output with the turn of a dial. I would suggest diffusing it though by adding white plastic to the front of just the ring itself. Olympus made a cross polarised filter especially for ringflash units. Getting hard to come by now days and really quite unique. That helps avoiding highlights in macro of shiny subjects. Very handy gadget Tristan. You would end up having to use a slave flash on this particular model, I use a Sunpak slave to fire it from the inbuilt flash.

    Now if you can't switch off the pre-flash in a 717, then you would need a special slave that fires only on the second flash and not the pre-flash Tristan.

    All the best all and thanks again.

    Danny.
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    Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,900 Major grins
    edited June 17, 2005
    Great shots Danny- you've obviously got this water drop stuff off to a tee.

    One technical question- do you know if the images in the drops are reflections on the surface or refractions (ie acting as lens) or a mix of both?
    Brian V.
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    nzmacronzmacro Registered Users Posts: 200 Major grins
    edited June 17, 2005
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Great shots Danny- you've obviously got this water drop stuff off to a tee.

    One technical question- do you know if the images in the drops are reflections on the surface or refractions (ie acting as lens) or a mix of both?
    Brian V.
    Definitely refractions Brian. If its behind the drop its refractions for sure, but it is reflecting back to the lens mwink.gif , a little play in words I guess :): I'm looking forward to your next post thumb.gif

    All the best Brian and thanks.

    Danny.
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    DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited June 17, 2005
    These are amazing!
    After seeing your set up, I'm even more amazed! I like macros, always have, but my water drops never seemed to reflect, refract or re- anything in them.

    Maybe I never got close enough? That's a lot of gear to hand hold too! But the results are fantastic!

    There was once a guy on the web who used a high powered magnifying glass for his macros -- he was into bugs -- think he was in Europe somewhere. His stuff was incredible.

    Now with the reverse lens, macro lens attachments, etc. it appears easier, but after seeing your set up I'm beginning to have doubts.

    Excellent work... clap.gif
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