Hi Bill -
Glad you liked them!
If you can believe technical data from someone who gets the year wrong in
his copyright notice... here it is:
All shot in manual mode, TTL flash. I set the ambient exposure to be ~1
stop underexposed. That way the flash makes the subject pop a bit from the
background.
Karner Blue - ISO 400, 1/350, f16, flash without compensation. It's cropped
to be about 75% of the frame.
Halloween Pennant - ISO 400, 1/250, f13, flash without compensation. Cropped
horizontally only to make it square, no vertical crop.
Twelve Spotted Skimmer - ISO 400, 1/350, f13, flash without compensation. I
cropped a little off the right side, no vertical crop.
As always I open the files to maximum size in Photoshop CS. Brightness,
saturation, and sharpness have been tweaked up a bit. I also find that with
digital I have to use a monopod, even at shutter speeds of 1/350 I have a
hard time getting a really crisp image.
Catch you later -
MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "william sawyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:02 PM
Subject: RE: GESO - Three Bugs
Wow!!
How about some technical data, Mark, to go along with them?
Bill Sawyer
Livonia, MI
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cassino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:16 PM
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: GESO - Three Bugs
Here's a mini gallery with three bug shots from the last few days:
http://www.markcassino.com/temp/peso/GESO_June.htm
Comments and critiques are appreciated.
The Karner Blue is a fairly rare butterfly - I like that shot because it
accentuates the extremely reflective wing scales inside the spots along
the
back of the wings. I now have precisely two acceptable shots of this
butterfly - this (and some in camera dupes) and one from last summer. The
dragonflies are pretty common fare.
All shots taken with the *ist-D, AF360FGZ, and A* 200 f4 macro.
I woke up a few days ago to find my eyes swollen and inflamed - somehow
managed to get a nasty eye infection. So I've been shooting in the summer
heat wearing glasses (I'm blind as a bat) and feel like Mr. Magoo out in
the
heat and humidity, trying to peer through steamed up lenses... Can't wait
to
get back into contacts (hopefully next week!)
- MCC
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Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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