Between Showers

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sat May 05, 2007 1:21 pm

I am glad that it is raining, though it puts a "damper on outdoorsy" stuff.

We need the rain though, its been dry but between the showers I did manage these and no there are no spiders checking their emails...

Though last night there just happened to be a persistant little jumper that kept coming back and wanting to crawl across my keyboard, even after several times of picking it up on a piece of paper and placing it elsewhere in the room to ferret out bugs. So after those several attempts to be humane, my patience at an end, I took it to the toilet and...well you've probably seen the movie.

Here are some shots I took while the rain was taking a break.

EOS 30D
Tripod/manual mode
1/100 sec. @ f/4 ISO 400
Cloudy/heavy overcast
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro

EOS 30D
Tripod/manual mode
1/100 sec. @ f/11 ISO 400
Cloudy/heavy overcast
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro

EOS 30D
Tripod/manual mode
1/100 sec. @ f/10 ISO 400
Cloudy/heavy overcast
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro

Composition was the biggest thing I was working on with these and by chance the backgrounds were not to bad except for the second image of the Smokey Winged moth, in which I think it is a bit busy but not too much so, in the first the background is the side of my house and yes that thing or insect is on a "Sow Thistle."

I tried to compose these images in the viewfinder first, the main reason for the tripod, however after download, they all looked quite different when I started to work with them. Of course they always do.

All are cropped at 50% plus the usual processing with Photo Impact 6. Constructive comments and criticism are quite welcome and encouraged.

Danny · Post by **Danny** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:56 pm

Well done here Ken. Very clean and sharp. Well I didn't know you had splashed out on some of the best gear on the planet M8t. VERY nice to see you spoiling yourself, good on ya Ken.

All the best way up north.

Danny.

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Sun May 06, 2007 12:36 am

I like the first one best. Nice sharp critter and good bg.

I didn't realize you'd bought a 30D, congrats on that! I'm glad you aren't wasting your money on frivolous stuff like food and clothing...

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun May 06, 2007 5:00 am

Danny wrote:

Well done here Ken. Very clean and sharp. Well I didn't know you had splashed out on some of the best gear on the planet M8t. VERY nice to see you spoiling yourself, good on ya Ken.

Yeah...had to use a cutting torch to get a few bucks out of my wallet, some folks have even gone so far as to comment that they have never seen currency circa 1950 in a very long time but I got the gear.

Thanks Danny

MikeB wrote:

I didn't realize you'd bought a 30D, congrats on that! I'm glad you aren't wasting your money on frivolous stuff like food and clothing...

Yeah really. Who needs stuff like that. I find it a bit hard to gnaw peanut butter and jelly of of a lens cap though but a nice leather lens case makes for good apparel.

Thanks Mike

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sun May 06, 2007 6:18 pm

I like #3....love the yellow & green combo and the cool looking centers.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun May 06, 2007 7:08 pm

Yeah those are kind of neat, sort of like a flowers within flowers. They are some kind of aster I believe.

They are growing everywhere out in the field behind the house and some are down right full of aphids!

Thanks Doug