At 09:37 PM 4/23/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Very nice looking, I have previously visited your site & check it occasionally >because of your excellent images. Could you tell how you made the snowflake >images? >-- >David S. >Nature and wildlife photography http://www.sheppardphotos.com
Hi David - Thanks - I'm glad you liked the site. I've used a variety a methods for the snow flakes. Most recently I've just used a reverse mounted 50mm (I tried both the M 50mm f1.7 and M 50mm f4 macro) on a bellows with tubes for additional extension - enough extension to get the magnification up to ~6x lifesized. This was all put on an Mz-S and an AF360FGZ was shot up through the snowflake. A piece of blue plastic over the flash makes the blue tint. The flakes are caught on microscope slies just set out when it's snowing. The P-TTL on the Mz-S works with this setup - with the Pz-1p I was not able to get to get TTL to work with this much extension. In past winters I used a similar setup but manually figured the exposure by calculating the effective F Stop (taking into account the extension) and measured how far away to place the flash - I did a lot of bracketing with this setup. I also experimented with other means of getting the magnification - like reverse mounting a 50mm on either a 200mm lens or 135, and then putting it all on extension. Ultimately, I think the reverse mounted 50mm is the sharpest. Cheers - MCC - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - Photos: http://www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
