Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Very pretty, Bruce. The color is lovely. Looks like it will be a fun flash to work with. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Bruce Walker" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:51 PM Subject: GESO - 3 Tulip macros Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart of some tulips. http://is.gd/ntlh One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more challenging two interior shots. K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. Comments welcome! -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Very nice. I can see that I'm going to need to start doing more than just available light if I want to keep up with shooting flowers. Not necessarily. It all depends on how good -- and how available -- your available light is. Of course it's true that help is required when shooting the interior of blooms. Paul -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen l...@red4est.comhttp://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Very nice. I can see that I'm going to need to start doing more than just available light if I want to keep up with shooting flowers. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen l...@red4est.comhttp://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart > of some tulips. > > http://is.gd/ntlh > > One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more > challenging two interior shots. > > K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of > white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. > Wow! Those are gorgeous! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Nice work. I especially like the chamber, as it's a unique look. Well done. Paul On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:03 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Good job Bruce. The first one looks like it could be in a sci-fi movie.:-) Dave On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart of some tulips. http://is.gd/ntlh One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more challenging two interior shots. K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. Comments welcome! -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Pasvorn Boonmark wrote: Bruce, These are nice. Macro is something that I have not tried. I think it is because of my fear of using flash. :) I am always amazed by them. How do you set-up your fill light, from the back? Thanks for sharing. -Pasvorn Thanks, Pasvorn! This is my first venture with a P-TTL flash, and my first use of flash in a few decades. :-) I'm a huge fan of available light, but I knew that I could only achieve some goals using lighting. This would be easier with a diagram, but if you imagine that the ring flash attached to the macro lens looks like the bottom of a wide-brimmed hat, the tulip blooms were actually part-way into the hat. So not much light from the flash (which fires forward from around the lens) could strike the bloom. I just arranged a sheet of white paper to lie behind the bloom about 4-5 cm's, slightly curved, to reflect the flash back toward the side of the bloom opposite my lens. In the case where I'm looking straight down into the top of the tulip, I slit the paper half-way and cut a round circle so I could fit it around the stem of the tulip. Everything was just manually positioned, and I held my breath a lot. :-) This would likely work better with a proper light modifier, like a small Lastolite reflector, but I ain't got there yet. Cheers! -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Good job Bruce. The first one looks like it could be in a sci-fi movie.:-) Dave On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart > of some tulips. > > http://is.gd/ntlh > > One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more > challenging two interior shots. > > K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of > white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. > > Comments welcome! > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Bob Sullivan wrote: Bruce, I like all three, beautiful. The two new additions are creative, especially the 1st. How does that flash work. Is it P-TTL? Who stocks it. Regards, Bob S. Thank-you, Bob! Yes, it's P-TTL. It also works TTL with the *istD bodies. The controller plugs in the hotshoe, and the ring flash attaches easily to the front of your lenses using a threaded adapter. You can rotate the flash around 360 degrees while controlling the relative light output from the two half-ring strobes. It has four LED modeling lights that are controlled by the same settings as the strobes. You get adapters for all the standard Pentax glass, except it can't be fitted to the DA*16-50. There's a special adapter for the DFA50 and DFA100 macro lenses that attaches to their hood mounts. As to who stocks the AF160FC, I'd say almost nobody, sadly. Henrys in Canada had two in stock only at their flagship Toronto store, and they were in the "Professional" department. You probably have to special-order this flash through your friendly Pentax dealer. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Bruce, These are nice. Macro is something that I have not tried. I think it is because of my fear of using flash. :) I am always amazed by them. How do you set-up your fill light, from the back? Thanks for sharing. -Pasvorn On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart > of some tulips. > > http://is.gd/ntlh > > One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more > challenging two interior shots. > > K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of > white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. > > Comments welcome! > > -bmw > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Again very nice work. #1 is a great idea. Toine 2009/3/15 Bruce Walker : > Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart > of some tulips. > > http://is.gd/ntlh > > One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more > challenging two interior shots. > > K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of > white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. > > Comments welcome! > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Bruce, I like all three, beautiful. The two new additions are creative, especially the 1st. How does that flash work. Is it P-TTL? Who stocks it. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart > of some tulips. > > http://is.gd/ntlh > > One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more > challenging two interior shots. > > K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of > white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. > > Comments welcome! > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
Well done, Bruce! Good framing, color, and technical. I give them a 9... :-) On Mar 15, 2009, at 15:51 , Bruce Walker wrote: Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart of some tulips. http://is.gd/ntlh One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more challenging two interior shots. K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time http://gallery.me.com/jomac http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
All well done, Bruce! Jack --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Bruce Walker wrote: > From: Bruce Walker > Subject: GESO - 3 Tulip macros > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 3:51 PM > Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that > get to the heart of some tulips. > > http://is.gd/ntlh > > One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the > much more challenging two interior shots. > > K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm > Macro Ltd. Sheet of white paper (not Pentax supported) to > bounce some fill light. > > Comments welcome! > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - 3 Tulip macros
In a message dated 3/15/2009 3:51:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bruce.wal...@gmail.com writes: Hardly big enough to be a GESO, here are three macros that get to the heart of some tulips. http://is.gd/ntlh One is a repeat from yesterday, but that work got me to the much more challenging two interior shots. K100D Super + AF160FC macro ring flash. DA 1:2.8 35mm Macro Ltd. Sheet of white paper (not Pentax supported) to bounce some fill light. Comments welcome! -bmw = Great shots, Bruce. (Already commented on middle.) Like both top and bottom, can't say I like any one better than the other. Well done. Marnie aka Doe :-) - Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. **Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a recession. (http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare0002) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
