Couple Of Wet Bumble Bees

Ambrola

These guys were just sitting in the rain. I took a couple of shots with the 105 and a couple with the 105 and tubes. These guys are to big to use tubes??

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basflt

Ambrola wrote: »

These guys are to big to use tubes??

yes thats the effect tubes have

wrap some paper towel around your flash , and they would be great pic's

Ambrola

basflt wrote: »

yes thats the effect tubes have

wrap some paper towel around your flash , and they would be great pic's

I have my flash and bracket, but the cable don't work the lite right. It hardly puts out any light? I don't know whats wrong, but I will get the flash to the end of the lens and quiten it down.

basflt

then it must be sun light
have you tried an [any] image editor ? ( you should )

Ambrola

I didn't edit them at all. Straight out of the camera. One of them I stacked 2 pics together I think? I am waiting until I get my rig straightened out before I get to deep into the pics. Gonna have to get another camera, can't take anything but Macro once you put all this on? I would hate to take it apart everytime I wanted to shoot a landscape?? What do you guys do?

basflt

forget the tubes for a while
with lens only , you can shoot anything
you dont need a new camera for that
pics above are not really bad , you just have to work on your technique
and , learn to edit the pics , thats a big part of digital photography

Ambrola

Yea, I know. I have Photoshop on the PC also. Thats bad. To lazy to edit, but I realy want to shoot small stuff like the water drops LordV does so well. Thats what I would love to get right. Practice, practice, practice??

basflt

Ambrola wrote: »

Yea, I know. I have Photoshop on the PC also. Thats bad. To lazy to edit, but I realy want to shoot small stuff like the water drops LordV does so well. Thats what I would love to get right. Practice, practice, practice??

yes , practice
you and me , we will never reach the level of Lord.V
but we can try !

the reason photoshop is lazy , is because your pc is not powerfull enough , but it does work
[ what pc you have , and what memory ? mayby you can change something there ? ]

changing lens / tubes , is normal , learn to live with it

Ambrola

I added RAM last week to get it to 2gbs. I should uninstall it then reinstall and see if that helps.

Lord Vetinari

Not bad at all. I do get the impression you are trying to run before you can walk. I'd forget the tubes and focus stacking for a while and just try to get used to shooting upto 1:1 with and without flash.
Brian v.

Ambrola

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Not bad at all. I do get the impression you are trying to run before you can walk. I'd forget the tubes and focus stacking for a while and just try to get used to shooting upto 1:1 with and without flash.
Brian v.

I have never tried shooting without any flash. Will it let enough light through to see the image without the tubes on??

Lord Vetinari

Ambrola wrote: »

I have never tried shooting without any flash. Will it let enough light through to see the image without the tubes on??

Yes I fairly often shoot natural light on slightly cloudy days using Tv mode at 1/200th or faster and up the ISo to get reasonable aperture.

eg below
Brian V.

Ambrola

Thanks Brian. Thats what I need, critique and help. I was using a very slow shutter speed,1/60th, and ISO at 400 to get light on these shots. I am going back to the basics, and try diffrent light configs.