Glenn_Smith

Focus stacking isn't to difficult if you have photoshop jsut a click of two buttons and then some fine tuning, heres a link to a blog post I did a few years ago, describing the process. BAsically auto Align and auto blend with stacking. But you …

Insect photography brings about the challenge of depth of field, the guys shooting the peacock spiders from Project Maratus Use Canon 1D x MkII Bodies and the 65 MPE Macro lens it has no focus on the lese so focus is by moving the camera body. …

Agreed, full frame with the better ISO sensitivity has to be a plus. Have you seen these ones yet. https://www.astronomik.com/en/clip-filter/clip-filter-fur-canon-eos-r-eos-rp.html

This is the third of the A series bodies from Canon the previous one was the 60D, and before that from Memory it was the 20Da (A quick Google Seach confirmed my memory always good to check after the odd galss of red) There are some amazing Asto …

Yes we have them each year as well, but this ones by far the worst so far, way to early in the season for them to flair up like this, The ground moisture content is so low these days so its all jsut waiting to go off, another few weeks and the …

Only spend a few hours out today, Due to the Smoke haze from the Bushfires around Sydney, pretty much all week the skies been covered in smoke, ash and charred leaves have been falling out the sky the last few days now, the nearest fire to here …

Great Review Vilen, Looks impressive. I can see how that would be a great help. Guess it take a little gettig use to but once you are you'd fly thoguth edits with that, the full screen edits would certainly be a great advantage. Have fun with it.

I occasionally use torches to light a shot particularly when I teach a workshop, showing the people in the workshop that you don't need all the latest high tech speedlites, Also helps when I don’t have the right brand speedlites for all the …

As for where to run it, there’s always my pool. But there are plenty of model boat clubs about and small lakes normaly not so many these days with the drought where having here. But there’s a few about still. So no shortage of places to run them.

Yes I can see what you mean about the hair, sorry to disappoint but pretty much short back and sides here, nothing flash. A scotch boiler is a typical Marine boiler used on steam vessels. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_marine_boiler They …

Yes @StephenL thos one is getting close to kicking off on Cake. I think I’ve got it right in my head now how to do it with a serious of open and closed panels plus conversations. So think I’ve just about mapped out how to get it going, I can take …

Yes @Chris they are amazing pieces of work and seeing them run slowly seeing all the linkages move truely memorising. The ferry model I’d build is about 5 foot long. It was powered by a triple expansion engine as well. So getting close to a match. …

Thanks Stephen, was a fun Interview, great questions. Happy to see where this goes if any one has any comments or questions.

Few things to take care of today so only got about an hour out wiht a camera today so no mushrooms to be found. So another shot from my back catalogue of shots. Three in a row on the same branch.

Ok only a few more days till summer starts here, so technically still spring, thou the temperatures don't seem to know that. So anther shot for Spring flowers thou again this flower also is going by the temperature and not the calendar. Christmas …

Oh wow, what a great collection, Great finds there, nice work.

No luck on the Mushroom front this weekend, Spend the day in the Botanic Gardens, as I do most Saturdays, no joy, one of the smaller dams has dried up this week, another will be dry within the next week or so. The ground is so dry these days now …

This year I've also been a bit quite on the gadget front, certainly not much in the way of new tech. The only gadget I got this year was a Logan Mat and Glass …

Oh wow. Always good when find them at home. I’ve had a few here at times. It usually means I can spend more time playing with different angles and lighting. Funny how it often takes someone else to find something like this in your own garden. Great …

Even with all the heat down here, today I managed to find a few Mushrooms to shoot, So there's always hope. Each saturday I go out and see what I can find, most weeks I'm lucky of late not so but this week found a couple.

No Mushrooms about again today, still dry and warm out and about today, so another one from my archives. The good news is the archives are rather large, so no shortage of older shots that haven't been seen here to come.

The caps crack like that usually frorm the expansion where the body under the skin expands to quick for the skin to keep up, usually from rain which is something we haven't seen here for a while again. Local Bushfires was the total news tonight …

I'm an amateur photography who plays with cameras on the weekend, mainly shooting birds and mushrooms, though pretty much anything that comes in front of my camera. My biggest challenge is shooting things that talk back to me. I'm much more …

Another shot from the archives, Nothing to be found today, so looked back in to the old shots that haven't been shown here yet and came across this one.

> This one will possible depend what you’re going to do with your images when you are finished are you looking to print them large or only view them on screens etc, Tele converters / Extenders Particularly the 2X are traditionally not as shape as …