Evening macros

[maxalmon]

My nano, soon to be mantis species tank.

These were taken with a 105mm macro

 

[Neptune777]

Those are stunning shots!

What are you using for lighting?

 

[maxalmon]

It's the basic lighting thats in the bio-cube canopy, no flash or outside lighting

 

[maxalmon]

Camers settings for all shots
Nikon D40x
2006/04/12 14:51:20.1
JPEG (8-bit) Fine
Image Size: 2737 x 1978
Color
Lens: VR 105mm F/2.8 G
Focal Length: 105mm
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Metering Mode: Center-Weighted
1/1.3 sec - F/18
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV

 

[crazedpuffer]

Beautiful tank!

 

[maxalmon]

Playing around with compensation settings, the darker image was intentional, trying to make the images pop, still have some learning to do in this area

 

[surfnvb7]

nice shots. f/18 is a bit high IMO. i'd stop down to at least f/13 for a FTS and increase the ISO to 200-400 based on the lighting you described.

btw....what kind of mantis are you putting in there?

 

[Jeff]

Wow! Very nice

 

[maxalmon]

I've got the ISO @200 I'll do a series with the F at 12 and see how it makes a difference, thanks for the advice....I'm still very new at photography and learning each week

 

[mfp1016]

Why not try shooting underexposed in RAW and adjusting saturation and highlighting up in PS or other RAW developer?

 

[mksalt]

Beautiful pics. What is the original size of some of these files? How do you reduce them down to 50 K and still get them to look so large?

 

[maxalmon]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11210650#post11210650 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mfp1016
Why not try shooting underexposed in RAW and adjusting saturation and highlighting up in PS or other RAW developer?

I'm a total techy moron, don't have any programs other than the one that arrived with the camera, not even sure I could figure out how to use PS or any of the other ones.

 

[maxalmon]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11210849#post11210849 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mksalt
Beautiful pics. What is the original size of some of these files? How do you reduce them down to 50 K and still get them to look so large?

Use photobucket.com, upload the images there and post a link in your message.