Neat stuff! These shells are very beautiful. The ringlight gives a somewhat flat, clinical lighting ... more of a scientific recording than capturing their beauty. Probably fine for the purposes you have articulated, but I think you could do better justice to the subject matter, artistically, with more directional lighting.
Doug's notion of using a fibre optic light source sounds very interesting ... ! Godfrey On Dec 11, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Perry Pellechia wrote: > Godfrey, > > I do not have access to my later photos here at work. I have some > earlier shots I can show. At the time I was trying to decide the best > way of getting these images. This set compares using a reversed > Vivitar 28mm lens and a Tamron 90mm F2.8 macro lens and teleconverter. > I think these are 1:1 comparison crops that may have been resized. > > http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry/shells/compare.jpg > http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry/shells/compare2.jpg > http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry/shells/compare3.jpg > http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry/shells/compare4.jpg > > Last shell is about 2mm. > > These are full frame shots: > > http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry/shells/imgp1656.jpg > http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry/shells/imgp1964.jpg > > (Note the grains of sans) > The ruler above shows mm scale. > > I know there is not much "art" to these but it is a fun way to combine > both our hobbies. > > Perry. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
