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White Faced Darter face on (male)

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Posted by Guy Rogers on June 25, 2008 at 3:04 AM
White Faced Darter face on (male)
Canon 40D, 180mm, F16, 1/2s, -1/3, iso 100, Tripod Cable Release, MLU.
Posted by Daniel Read on June 25, 2008 at 3:17 AM
Great shot Guy, it's nice and sharp, and the smooth background really allows the subject to shine :toast:

Cheers,

Dan.
Posted by Mark Sisson on June 25, 2008 at 3:53 AM
Not an easy one to find let alone photograph

:toast:

Mark
Posted by tony flashman on June 25, 2008 at 7:55 AM
Very good result at 1/2 sec. I would need 4000th with the way the winds blowing here!

Tony :toast:
Posted by Dave Courtenay on June 25, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Wow-stunning-top notch-nothing else to say

Dave :toast:
Posted by Brett Lewis on June 25, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Very nice indeed, what a superb close-up.. Super detail..

Brett :toast: :eek:
Posted by Nick Caddick on June 25, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Great detail
Are you using ext tubes or is this a crop as it seems close in for a 180mm ?
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Posted by Guy Rogers on June 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Hello Nick.

Thanks for your comment.

I have cropped this by about 20%. I still have 8m pixels from the 40Ds 10m pixels.

The 180mm will give 1/1 life size but on a camera with a 1.6 cropped sensor you get a good 1/ 1/2 life size. So you should be able to get this close or very near to it if I had'nt cropped.

Please correct me if I am wrong about this.

:wavey:
Posted by Justin on June 25, 2008 at 12:49 PM
An excellent close-up. :toast:
Posted by Alan Woolnough on June 25, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Extremely eye-catching shot Guy :eek:

Superb stuff :toast: :toast:

Alan
Posted by Andy Astbury on June 25, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Looks very good Guy :toast:

These males are much harder to get a decent image out of than most folk imagine aren't they :confused: :wavey:
Posted by John Robinson on June 25, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Superb close up.
JR
Posted by Paul Ashton on June 25, 2008 at 6:18 PM
That's what I call sharp macro. Well I'll just have to keep trying harder!
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on June 25, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Hi a nice image, but 1:1 is 1:1 even on a crop camera, sensor size has no effect on magnification.

Phil.

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Posted by Greg Hitchcock on June 26, 2008 at 8:15 AM
There's a practical difference between actual magnification (more technical) and effective magnification (more practical), which I think is what Guy was getting at - we didn't start printing things smaller when we switched to cropped sensors!

Great shot Guy, a species I've yet to track down. Would liked to have seen it in portrait format maybe.

Greg
Posted by Magnus Hird on June 26, 2008 at 3:05 PM
That's amazing detail - can see the texture of the eye surface! :smile: