Activity for User 502 - Murphy Hektner - mhektner@frontier.com

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63 Jul 18 Comment Hi Lisa: A good idea, I wondered about that out of focus green leaf at the top. I will clone it out entirely. Probably should have used f/16 as f/13 did not provide quite enough depth of field. Jul 28th
63 Jul 18 Comment Hi Priscilla: Cropping in on the flower as you have is an interesting concept, quite a different approach. I really like the background with the darker top; it fits the flower so well with the same green color tones. Your choice of lighting fits the delicate subject nicely. Jul 22nd
63 Jul 18 Comment Hi Pat: Nicely composed with the bee in the upper left corner of the frame. A nice shot, certainly nothing wrong with it.
Good strong colors and good sharpness; like Priscilla mentions you have attained very good sharpness on the bee using just 1/80 second. Did you use a flash as your primary light source?		 Jul 22nd
63 Jul 18 Comment Hi Lisa: great interaction between the Chameleon and the owner of the finger. The eye looking at the person makes this picture in my opinion, and you did very well to capture this moment.
If I had a nit it would be the background, it kind of over powers this little creature. If you could somehow work on the white BG in post processing so it did not come on so strong it would greatly improve your picture. Just a thought !!		 Jul 22nd
63 Jul 18 Comment Hi Neil: welcome to Macro Group #63, will look forward to viewing your photography in the coming months. I see you are associated with the Southern Oregon Photography Association, I have family in Medford. We are almost neighbors as I live about 65 miles north of Seattle in Mount Vernon. You have attained very sharp detail from front to back on the insect (looks like a Grasshopper). At this high magnification without using focus stacking there is no way you could have managed to have the insect sharp from front to back as you have accomplished. The insect stands out well from the very dark background, no distractions in the BG either. Good Work! Jul 22nd
63 Jul 18 Comment Hi Rosangela: Quite a surreal looking image, almost a little spooky. interesting colors with the violet, blue, the yellow parts on the bottom and a bit of white at the top. Your selective focus treatment gives a certain mood, to me it would be interesting to see what mood the image would convey at say f/16 with a lot of depth of field. Jul 22nd
63 Jul 18 Comment Hi Pat: Macro and even close-up photography sometimes is a compromise. If I stopped the lens way down to f/22 I may have attained a little better sharpness on the back leaves at the top; in doing so the background would have become quite busy with the extra depth of field. I would have needed to spend a lot of time trying to smooth out the background so it was not distracting. Focus stacking only works on static subjects that do not move, not a sure bet in our location photographing wild flowers out of doors. If your flower subject moves in just the slightest of breezes then you tend to end up with register problems where your stacked images do not quite line up with each other. In retrospect I probably should have used f/22 and spent what ever time was needed to smooth out the background. It is always a learning experience !! Jul 13th
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