Boss photos you've taken

Bilbo · July 30, 2013

Torontoblue said:
Nice macro. Is the focus 'issue' to do with the 2.8 aperture being to narrow?

No - that's just the maximum aperture of the lens. This one was taken at f/10. In macro as I'm thinking you'll already know, the area in focus using extension tubes on a full frame camera can be as little as 2mm or 3mm at most.

Paul.

Bilbo · July 30, 2013

Torontoblue said:
This is one of my favourite macro shots taken quite a few years ago with my old D50 & excellent Nikkor 60mm F/2.8 macro lens. The front of the tree stump is a little distracting, and I did boost the colour a little, but the bug is/was very, very green.

A shame he wasn't blue!

Good capture though m8.

Paul.

Torontoblue · July 30, 2013

Bilbo said:
No - that's just the maximum aperture of the lens. This one was taken at f/10. In macro as I'm thinking you'll already know, the area in focus using extension tubes on a full frame camera can be as little as 2mm or 3mm at most.

Paul.

Ah, I just saw f/2.8 and thought you were wide open.

Hmm, then the f/10 should really have gotten them both in focus.; weird, as you said.

Deleted member 28206 · July 30, 2013

Getting my Betis tix today

Bilbo · July 30, 2013

Nice Bryan

McBain · July 31, 2013

Some awesome pics in here. Very nice work.

This is my Location Scouting Special Edition.

Rooftops. It can be hard work getting on the roof of a building, but the views can be spectacular. I was looking for a 60's Rooftop Party Scene here in Potts Point.

McBain · July 31, 2013

Houses: You get to know houses and the architecture behind them when your looking for period properties. Here is a selection of houses I've been trying to talk my way into to. The brief: 1970's upper class family.

McBain · July 31, 2013

McBain · July 31, 2013

Harry Seidler was a famous Aussie Architect who designed alot of modernist buildings from the 50's to the 90's.

This is his Apartment design in Darlinghurst.

And on the job I'm on I've been lucky enough to shoot in his house. Its basically the Aussie version of 'Fallingwater' by Frank Lloyd Wright, and its an amazing home.

McBain · July 31, 2013

Woolloomooloo is a real place, and it's full of Housing Commission. Its no Moss Side, but you do have to be careful.

McBain · July 31, 2013

And some randoms from on my Travels.

Alio · July 31, 2013

So McBain pretty much has the coolest job going

Great pics!

Bilbo · July 31, 2013

Opiliones are known better as harvestmen - those spider-like thingies which are not spiders at all. The body of a harvestman is so characteristic that they are easy to recognize. They go by many names: daddy long-legs, harvestmen, shepherd spiders, and harvest spiders. These eight-legged arachnids are commonly misidentified as spiders, they actually belong to their own, separate group – the order Opiliones.

They are awkward to photograph mainly due to their legs being incredibly long - as much as 2 inches each one, which means to fit one into the viewfinder in its entirety leads to poorer composition - hence I tend to get in closer and concentrate on the best bit - the body and those 2 little eyes and it's mouth parts!

Anyway, here is one such harvestman, posing quite nicely for me on a chrysanthemum flower. Enjoy.

Creator: Photographer: Paul Iddon
Copyright: Paul Iddon - A View of the UK

Paul.