Peacock feathers (photos added)

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 12:57 pm

Charles posted some photos of these a few years ago. I'd always wanted to try it for myself and finally got around to it.

Peacock4 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock5 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock6 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock8 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock3 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:09 pm

These look great!
Such an amazing subject to work with.

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:25 pm

Very nice!

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:27 pm

Very nice

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:35 pm

Lovely set. Makes me want to have a go too - but will need to find a peacock feather first. Are these the natural colours?

Edit: There's over 1000 'peacock feather' entries in the crafts section on Ebay (uk). So I splurged a couple of quid and have a handful on the way. Looking forward to having a go. Little things...

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:50 pm

Thanks everyone.

Beatsy, you should, the colors and structure are very interesting. I ordered 10 feathers from ebay for $1USD. These are the natural colors. Saturation, contrast, sharpening was adjusted to taste, but there was no masking or artificially changing colors. I'm still not satisfied with the colors. Seeing it directly through the optics gives an entirely different 'look' than what I was able to get from the camera sensor.

Smokedaddy · Post by **Smokedaddy** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:56 pm

Incredible colors, amazing creatures. What was the specific objective 10x etc.?

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 2:26 pm

Smokedaddy wrote:Incredible colors, amazing creatures. What was the specific objective 10x etc.?

Thanks, and I agree it is an amazing adaptation.

These were all taken with the same setup:
Canon 5D Mark III w/ magic lantern hack silent photo mode
Mitutoyo 10x 0.28 M Plan Apo objective
Mamiya 645 210mm f4 lens

zzffnn · Post by **zzffnn** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:24 pm

Very beautiful, thank you for sharing!

Lou Jost · Post by **Lou Jost** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:43 pm

Absolutely stunning! Nicely lit too.

myriophyllum · Post by **myriophyllum** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:12 pm

Hi,

fine images, well done.
I love peacocks, if they wouldn't fly around so much, I had some...

Best wishes
Jens

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 6:53 am

Thanks Jens, Lou and zzffnn.

Jens, I'd have some too if they tolerated the cold better. I'm not sure how well they'd get along with our chickens.

Here are some new photos. I tried a Mitutoyo 5x for a couple shots. Also, the detail from these reduced images really doesn't show the resolution of the images, so I've added some crops

Peacock12 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock11 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock9 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock9 crop by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock13 by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

Peacock13 crop by Curtis Sleve, on Flickr

JH · Post by JH » Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:34 am

Nice pictures
Regards Jörgen

Troels · Post by **Troels** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:32 am

Amazing!

Troels

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:23 am

Curtis, this is beautiful work!

BTW, there's a couple of little glitches with BBCode tags in your postings:

1) Every image has a superfluous pair of

tags, which render as text.

2) The visible URL is crammed right up against the image, in a way that screws up the forum page format on monitors with width 1280 pixels.

I have admin-edited your last posting so as to fix these glitches on the first two images, but not the others. If you open the posting for editing, you can see what I've done. It's just a matter of deleting the superfluous tags, and inserting a space between [/url] and [url= in the middle of each entry.

--Rik