Scott Linstead's high-speed photographs capture creatures frozen in time
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From: Russ D on 21 Jul 2010 18:33 On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT), Val Hallah <michaelnewport(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/7902773/Scott-Linsteads-high-speed-photographs-capture-creatures-frozen-in-time.html What a shame. So many images ruined by too shallow DOF and eye-offending artificial lighting. I shoot many macro images of small insects in flight in available light alone, handheld, without all that DOF blur and garish fake lighting. I was just browsing through one folder of mine where in only one afternoon I amassed about 150 tight macro shots of bees hovering near their intended flower-targets. And who hasn't shot a bird coming in for a landing before? Or similarly a crane flipping a fish into the air and capturing a shot of it just before the catch. Or an osprey making its catch. He spent FOUR DAYS to get that shot of the osprey making its catch? I got about 15 like that in 2 hours one casual afternoon by just sitting around where some ospreys were fishing, no elaborate camouflage hide required. (One was especially clumsy and kept dropping his catch, no doubt a juvenile learning its trade.) The osprey could have cared less if I was there, they were focused on getting their dinners. This guy's just a talentless tech-head cityboy hack. ZERO talent. Totally unimpressed.
From: rwalker on 21 Jul 2010 23:03 On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:33:29 -0500, Russ D <russd(a)myowndomain.org> wrote: >ng. I shoot many macro images of small insects in flight >in available lig You're a waste of organic chemistry.
From: David J Taylor on 22 Jul 2010 02:27 "rwalker" <rwalker(a)despammed.com> wrote in message news:s6df46pnud7rokrnvuqt8493vbbs4vn1tb(a)4ax.com... > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:33:29 -0500, Russ D <russd(a)myowndomain.org> > wrote: > >>ng. I shoot many macro images of small insects in flight >>in available lig > > You're a waste of organic chemistry. Killfile it, and don't feed it by any form of reply. Please, for all our sakes. David
From: LOL! on 22 Jul 2010 03:04 On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:27:06 +0100, "David J Taylor" <david-taylor(a)blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >"rwalker" <rwalker(a)despammed.com> wrote in message >news:s6df46pnud7rokrnvuqt8493vbbs4vn1tb(a)4ax.com... >> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:33:29 -0500, Russ D <russd(a)myowndomain.org> >> wrote: >> >>>ng. I shoot many macro images of small insects in flight >>>in available lig >> >> You're a waste of organic chemistry. > >Killfile it, and don't feed it by any form of reply. Please, for all our >sakes. > >David Yes, please. Poke your own eyes out. Trying to retain your bliss of self-induced ignorance demands it! LOL!
From: Bowser on 23 Jul 2010 09:16
"Russ D" <russd(a)myowndomain.org> wrote in message news:97se4610io4lg3j74r7qvibmhp98f03kan(a)4ax.com... > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT), Val Hallah > <michaelnewport(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> >>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/7902773/Scott-Linsteads-high-speed-photographs-capture-creatures-frozen-in-time.html > > What a shame. So many images ruined by too shallow DOF and eye-offending > artificial lighting. I shoot many macro images of small insects in flight > in available light alone, handheld, without all that DOF blur and garish > fake lighting. I was just browsing through one folder of mine where in > only > one afternoon I amassed about 150 tight macro shots of bees hovering near > their intended flower-targets. And who hasn't shot a bird coming in for a > landing before? Or similarly a crane flipping a fish into the air and > capturing a shot of it just before the catch. Or an osprey making its > catch. He spent FOUR DAYS to get that shot of the osprey making its catch? > I got about 15 like that in 2 hours one casual afternoon by just sitting > around where some ospreys were fishing, no elaborate camouflage hide > required. (One was especially clumsy and kept dropping his catch, no doubt > a juvenile learning its trade.) The osprey could have cared less if I was > there, they were focused on getting their dinners. This guy's just a > talentless tech-head cityboy hack. ZERO talent. > > Totally unimpressed. If his are that bad, I'd love to see yours. Can you post a link? |