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excellent tutorial, you do such great work thanks for sharing :)
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Many many thanks for the tutorial.
I will try this morning.
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Thats a Flickr-Spirit.. Need to jump outside..
Posted 81 months ago.
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Wow, that's excellent. We're having so much rain in the UK at the moment, it will be easy to try this out!
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Well, next time we get some Rain here in Melbourne I'llhave a go...
On the focus stacking: What aperture are you using? would it be possible to extend the exposure, use a tripod and get enough DOF that way?
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Heard about the lack of rain problems you have and smoke haze from bush fires- hope you get rain soon.
You can try using a smaller aperture than around F8-F11 I use for these shots but you will lose some sharpness due to diffraction softening.
If you have the patience and are careful you should be able to get both the drop and flower in focus by carefully moving the flower until you get the focal point of the dew drop (likely to be further back from the drop).
Brian V.
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Neat, Thanks :) Don't know if I have the patience yet, but I think I will be getting a spray bottle to try creating my own dew :)
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Darn fine tutorial "LordV". You do exceptional work and it is a pleasure to see someone take the initiave to "coach' us in "How To". Thanks!
Dan
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Posted 77 months ago.
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Wow, this is an amazing tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing all the info.
Posted 75 months ago.
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Brian, thank you, and congratulations! I have been playing with the stack technique and the dewdrop technique, but not both together, yet. And then yesterday my April edition of Practical Photography finally made it to the States, and I was thrilled to see your work and mini-tutorial. Thanks again!
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Brian, thank you for sharing the info.
Posted 74 months ago.
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Beautiful, thanks for sharing the insight on how to do this.
Posted 74 months ago.
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Brian, you are the Lord of the Macro. Your photos amaze me, and this particular shot is absolutely stunning!
Shane
Posted 74 months ago.
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Lord V! I'm a big fan of your work. I would like to thank you for taking your time to explain how you go about your beautiful dewdrop refractions. I'm quite impatient to try with dewdrops... instead I tried with a soap poof net =P.
Though it's not perfect (had a hard time with "slice focus" as my eye sight is becoming really poor), I did try a few shot and I dedicate them to you for being such an inspiration and for sharing your secret!
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Thanks orangecrazy- that worked beautifully- might have to try that myself :)
Brian V.
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Thank you!!!
Posted 65 months ago.
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Wow, that was a great tutorial. I am gonna have to try both the Lord V and Orangecrazy versions. That is so neat. Thanks for sharing that.
Taunya
Posted 63 months ago.
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Thanks for your excellent tutorial. I have learn a lots on that.
Posted 59 months ago.
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Do you think i would be able to pull something like this off with a Olympus FE-340/x-b55/C-560
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zoelver not sure what magnification that camera/lens system is capable of but if you can get to about 0.6:1 (equivalent to 2:1 with a 1.6crop DSLR) then yes you could but I suspect the focusing could be a problem
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Excellent tutorial, Thankyou very mucc
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Great tutorial, Brian. Thanks a lot.
Posted 53 months ago.
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Wow, what a great thing to try to achieve for ourselves. Thanks for the great tutorial.
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Thank you for posting this tutorial and the lenses that you use. This is extremely helpful! I absolutely love your dew drop refractions!
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Great shots! I like the 4th one best!! :))
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Hi LordV - just wondering, if you're using macro bellows, instead of moving the camera forward/back to achieve the varied FOV, is it the same effect if you moved the lens fwd/back using the macro bellow's rail? cheers
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Weidotcom,
I think as long as the bellows movement is not too big it should be fine doing that. Either method results in FOV/magnification differences which are corrected by the stacking software
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Great tutorial.
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This is terrific -- thanks for sharing!!
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Canon S95says:
wonderful group, thank you guys
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Thank you, this is an eye opener!
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Thank you so much. I love doing water drop shots and this is a big help.
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Thank You, Brian!! This is so awesome, and I am so excited to have found your tutorial. I just got two lenses, and am wondering how suitable they would be for achieving the dewdrop refractions...
One is a Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm 1.7 and the other a Tamron 70-300mm TeleMacro.
I look forward to your reply! Have a great weekend.
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Lena - you really need to be shooting at 2:1 magnification or higher for these type of shots.
You may be able to fit the Tamron on your camera, set it between 100mm and 150mm focal length and reverse mount the 50mm lens onto the front of the tele lens. This should give you a suitably high magnification but the focus point will be very close to the front of the reversed lens. You can find reverse mount male/male adapter rings on ebay which match the filter sizes of your lenses.
Brian v.
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Thanks LordV for taking the time to share your know how with us.I always enjoy seeing your refraction images.I should try this some day.You seem to be a specialist in refraction shots.Thanks again.Keep them coming.:-)
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Thanks George - I just enjoy doing refraction shots.
Brian v.
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great tutorial!
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Hi Lord V,
You mentioned using extension tubes in your set-up. Doesn't that merely decrease camera to subject distance? I thought a teleconverter was necessary to increase magnification unless you are using a reversed lens.
MrNickon
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Mrnickon.
Extension tubes do decrease the working distance but they increase the magnification. A TC will preserve the working distance, give more magnification but will degrade the image IQ more than ext tubes.
Brian v.
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Lord V great tutorial, i like the end result, i am now inspired to give this a go, thanks heaps.
Posted 21 months ago.
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Lord V, love your work. Very inspiring. Here is a self portrait I have managed. Not tried focus stacking as of yet
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Like it Martin
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Thanks Lord V, I will be giving this a try soon :)
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