spider and dragonflies...

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spider and dragonflies...

Post by Cyberspider »

Hi @ all,

a spider and two dragonflies...

stretch spider
Model = Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Exposure Time = 1/13s
F Number = F10
ISO Speed Ratings = 200
Focal Length = 150mm
tripod + IR Shutter release + mirror lockup
Photo taking with back light (?)
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family Coenagrionidae
Model = Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Exposure Time = 1/5s
F Number = F10
ISO Speed Ratings = 200
Focal Length = 150mm
tripod + IR Shutter release + mirror lockup
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The Western Clubtail (Gomphus pulchellus)
Model = Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Exposure Time = 1/8s
F Number = F13
ISO Speed Ratings = 200
Focal Length = 150mm
tripod + IR Shutter release + mirror lockup
This picture is cropped
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Last edited by Cyberspider on Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by rjlittlefield »

Lovely pictures, as always!
This picture is croped (?)
The word is correct, if you mean some picture was cut away. But should be two p's in "cropped".

--Rik

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Post by Aynia »

Amazing photos! :D I'm feeling very humble with all these incredible photos. :D

These are like works of art.

The two dameselflies are amazing - particularly the one peeping out from behind the stem - the one on the right.

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Post by Cyberspider »

rjlittlefield wrote: The word is correct, if you mean some picture was cut away. But should be two p's in "cropped".
--Rik
oh that was a mistake because i was too quick...is this right Rik:

ratio = how a motive is ordered in the picture? (golden ratio?)
crop = which part of the picture has cut out?
I'm feeling very humble with all these incredible photos.
i think my pictures are not perfect and I think that you can do this just well there...exercise and a lot of patience and naturally a good tripod :wink:
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Post by Cyclops »

Aynia wrote:
The two dameselflies are amazing - particularly the one peeping out from behind the stem - the one on the right.
I agree, that is a brillaint shot of life!
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Post by P_T »

Hahaha that second image is a hoot!! it's almost like a cartoon scene with 2 big eyes peeping out. :lol:

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Cyberspider wrote:...is this right Rik:

ratio = how a motive is ordered in the picture? (golden ratio?)
crop = which part of the picture has cut out?
I think you are looking for the word "composition".

Let's make an example.

Consider a damselfly hanging head-up on a vertical stem. You must decide how close to put the camera, how to orient it (horizontal, vertical, or tipped), and where to place the damselfly within the picture. These are to "compose" the picture. If you tip the camera so the damselfly crosses the frame diagonally, say from upper left to lower right, we might say "diagonal composition".

After you take the picture, you may decide it would look better with some edges removed. This is "cropping".

You might also decide that the picture would look better if the camera had been tilted when the picture was taken. But it wasn't. In this case, if you have enough spare space around the edges, you can "rotate" the image and then "crop" it to change the "composition".

The word "ratio" has several uses, all centered around the mathematics concept of division. The f-number of a lens is a ratio -- focal length divided by aperture diameter. The "aspect ratio" of an image is width by height -- for example 3:2 for 600x400 pixels, or 900x600 pixels, or 3072x2048. Among macro photographers, "ratio" by itself is sometimes used as slang for "magnification" -- image size divided by object size. But I have not heard it used that way anywhere else.

Wikipedia has a good article on "golden ratio". A rectangle that has the golden ratio is considered attractive, but this describes only its shape -- the ratio of width and height. The term says nothing about how the subject is positioned and oriented within the image. That is a matter of composition.

Does this make sense?

--Rik

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Post by Cyberspider »

Hi Rik,

i think i understand...thank you for your help!
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Post by Dread »

Great photos! Love the face. I saw a very similar spider in Ghana, will post pics of him someday... beautiful translucent body.

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Congratulations Markus for making the Front Page pic!
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Post by Cyberspider »

Thank you Larry and of course I thank the admins!
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Post by Erland R.N. »

Just saw the two Ischnura elegans damselflies on the front page, and want to congratulate you with this splendid photo.
Quite many damselfly species can be seen "hiding" like in the picture, eyes sticking out on each side of a stem. If you move, they may move accordingly :-)

Erland

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