shots from the grave yard

[bandit 1]

Hiya All,

At last I managed to grab half an Hr to get some shots in, so I went for a quick mooch round the Church Yard, found a Wolf on the Church wall, Bark Louse on a Head Stone & a Lady Bug on a leaf in the Sun.

These were taken in a hurry so not that brill, ha what a lame excuse eh

Cheers for now
Mark

[bandit 1]

Bark Louse & Lady Bug

[LordV]

Good shots Mark- esp #2. :D
Hate to say it but #3 is a jumping plant louse (Psyllid) not a bark louse ;)

Brian V.

[Ferco]

Good captures- particularly like numbers two and four. As for CONSTRUCTIVE (as I'm always told) criticism (lol) people are always telling me my macro shots lack DOP- it seems only recently after reading two books on macro photography do i understand fully what this entails- and now i can see how a 'deeper'? depth of field can improve a shot- i think it would be cool in number two to have a better DOF- but i think you said you were in a hurry so i guess the shutter speed needed the light, right? lol up here in Scotland I have to stop down (is stop DOWN, right? lol total newb still) to 2.8 most of the time to get a sufficient speed for handheld shots- ie. 1/100 sec or more.
All in all nice shots- any shots of the graveyard?

[SharpShooter89]

With macro you usually try to get the highest F stop you can, this Almost ALWAYS entails using a tripod, not only for the longer shutter speeds, but real close up the littlest of movements will 'hurt' the image.

So use a tripod, a good heavy one, remote release or timer (though they have a nack for taking the picture at the worst possible moment, ha) and if you can a mirror lockup.

Very nice pictures by the way ;)

Cheers!

[Cactuspic]

God captures, Mark.

Irwin

[Cactuspic]

God captures, Mark.

Irwin

[zman]

Very nice work, Mark; especially #2 and 3.

[dpastern]

Good captures Mark, definitely getting the hang of that 400D ;)

Dave

[bandit 1]

Hiya Brian, Richard, Doug, Irwin, Artur, Dave.

To those who I've not yet apologised to sorry for not replying sooner I won't go into all the details but suffice to say we've back at Hosp. with Mike, he's now back home & we're all shattered.

Many thanks for your advise & comments much appreciated as always.

I somehow knew I'd get that ID wrong Brian, my toast always lands Butter side down ;)

I'm hoping Dave that with all my Contraptions get the measure of this 400 sooner rather than later.

Anyway folks I'm goina sling a cuppa down my throat put my feet up & chill it's been in ' OZ ' terms a real ' Bugger ' of a week & thats the truth.

Cheers for now

Mark

[BigAl-SA]

Nice shots Mark! As Dave said, "you're getting the hang of that cam!"

[Lester Wareham]

Some good shots there Mark.

It is lovely and mild for the time of year. Must try and get a chance to get out myself and find some bugs - bit of a problem at present though.

[bandit 1]

Hiya BigAl, Lester,

Many thanks for your comments, Slowly but surely Al, if it wasn't for this damn weather here.

As Lester says it's unseasonably mild, trouble is I live right on the coast & we catch the most horrendous stormy weather, we've had two dry days since Christmas Day, now if I had a good zoom lens I could be posting some wicked Landscape or rather Seascapes as the Sea has been monstrous of late.

Cheers for now

Mark

[::Lisa::]

Nice shot of old wolfie. We used to get a whole ton of those wolf spiders in our house before we moved. There was a gap under the fireplace and they used to come from user there. Pity I didn't have my macro lens then :lol:

[TulipHill]

That ladybug shot is SO eye-catching. Would make a super poster. Lovely composition. We get those wolf spiders in our house, ICK!!! I am both fascinated and repulsed by them. As long as they don't get too close to me, I operate on a live and let live policy. :)

[bandit 1]

Hiya Lisa, Carole,

Many thanks for your kind words & comment, the Wolfie is my favorite Spider, closely followed by the Jumpers, guess I'm lucky or just plain weird but I can let any ' Creepy Crawlies ' wander all over me.

Cheers for now

Mark