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Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Macro Monday: Green
I am off on a nerdy birdy weekend at the moment. So, no long winded post this week - phew, what a relief for us all! Just some soothing photos to, hopefully, please your eyes. That always assumes that I can get online to post them whilst in the wilds of the B.C. Interior.
Sword fern (Polystichum munitum)
Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)
Anyone know? My ID books are in Box 4 somewhere in the bowels of my garage.
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With the dark background, the ferns look so perfect!
ReplyDeleteLike the lighting and the combination of green and black color. Happy Monday!
ReplyDeleteMM~My Iris
Striking shots. The green and black look great together.
ReplyDeleteWonderful light in these shots!
ReplyDeleteI agree, the lighting on these is superb. The photos are lovely.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the lighting on these is superb. The photos are lovely.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, the lighting is wonderful. I love these photos. The third one is a fern too ;-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful - love the light in these.
ReplyDeleteLovely ,lovely pictures on the Ferns !
ReplyDeleteGreat light and color !
Have a nice monday :)
The fronds with the sunlight is just picture perfect!!!
ReplyDeleteMy Macro Lantana is HERE I do hope you can stop by to visit with me today.
Beautiful, calm shots. Can't help with the identification, I'm afraid - it's all just 'bracken' to me :-)
ReplyDeleteClever use of light here.
ReplyDeleteand to answer your question,
Hardware:
for the regular 1:1 macro shot im using a tamron 60mm macro lens.
for the super macro, beyond 1:1- i am using 68mm extension tube+ tamron 60mm macro+ nikon 50mm reverse mounted on the tamron + window light.
magnification can be push a bit more by adding a 2x teleconverter lens to the setup
Subject:
the fly was put into the refrigerator to sleep, I took the picture then, after a few minutes it wakes up and flies away.
Fly photo is made from 20 separate shots of the same fly at different focal length with a fraction of a millimeter increment.The images are then stacked together to create the final image.
The morning dew were of 12 shots.
The process is very tedious and needs a lot of patience, the alternative is to use 10-20" shutter speed on one image for details like I did on the ballpen but the stacking process gives more details.
Dave here.
I have tried often to get a decent pic of ferns. You have done a wonderful job.
ReplyDeleteFerns are my favorite plant. Except when they turn brown. Yours are a perfect shade of green. Marvelous!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog!
ReplyDeleteI think that your mystery fern might be Deer Fern (Blechnum spicant) but I'm not sure - the fact that the leaves are attached all along the bases correlates with Pojar and MacKinnon's description - I thought that they might be a young Sword Fern but it just doesn't look right for that. Do you have any other photos that shows the frond in profile? Look to see if the frond starts narrow, gets wider and then narrows again at the tip.
Great images by the way! Love the backlit sword fern!
Beautiful! I love the lighting in them especially! Hope you're having a wonderful time!!
ReplyDeleteThank you to all of you that made such lovely comments. I really appreciate you popping by.
ReplyDeleteIn particular:
Carolina: Thanks, that was ever so helpful!
Dave: A very big thank you for all that info - I think I might have to pay EBay a visit. I really love your morning dew shot. It might even be worth all the extra effort required.
Other Dave: You also get a big thank you - I suspected that it might be a deer fern, but the fronds just seemed much narrower and smaller than I had seen before. Perhaps it was just because of where it was growing - quite dry and hot on the side of the mountain.
Those are gorgeous!! I love the lighting.
ReplyDeleteThe last one reminds me of 'asplenium' but it's probably not!