Bought a new camera today

[Microgunner]

Hey, you gotta dress the part.

[imschur]

Heres some neat images. They were shot as medium jpegs with no post processing. The only thing I did was crop and compress them for size. The neat thing about these images was that I used a slave flash from a Nikon macro lens attachment. The slave flash was aimed at the guns top strap while I shot from the front and overhead with the on board flash. The D90 was used as a master in "commander mode"to fire the slave. The images were hand held in auto.

Im pretty surprised at how well they turned out just screwing around

[imschur]

actually the number 1 image was using the slave aimed at a silver reflector. Thats why it looks slightly different

[imschur]

Heres a little bee that was about half the size of a yellow jacket, notice the pollen

[imschur]

and another

[imschur]

For size perspective, in the last picture the bee is on a clover flower

[lmao_37]

what sort of ens are you using ? is it a macro or normal lens with macro ability ?

[imschur]

its this lens

[lmao_37]

its a nice lens i just wonder'd what type of lens you used to take the photos with, i have a canon rebel xt myself and i also have a Olympus OM1 and i brought an adapter ring for the canon so all my OM1 lenses now fit my canon most of the lenses i have for the OM1 have macro capability as standard and i also have brought a couple of om  lenses to use on the canon as i prefer manual lenses over power lenses dont know why i just do  ;D

[rodent.22]

I have a ''one click''....it's beyond me, I'm techno-deprived. :o

[imschur]

i think we have an OM-1 around here too :)

The Nikon for all it's wonders works best in manual or some form of manual with the camera calculating some settings.

The down side of this lens is I need to be about 4' away from a 1911 to get the entire gun in the lens

[lmao_37]

i think we have an OM-1 around here too :)

The Nikon for all it's wonders works best in manual or some form of manual with the camera calculating some settings.

The down side of this lens is I need to be about 4' away from a 1911 to get the entire gun in the lens

i know what you mean about downsides  the canon is a good camera i do use mine for astrophotography 5 min images x 10 or 20 depends what iam looking at,the canon range seem to render themselves a better camera for the job as the Nikon star eating software cause's  a few probs but hence why i use the camera in manual mode alot my om1 spends alot of time doing long exposures with a 130mm vivitar lens on it piggyback mounted on my telescope

[asmurff]

I've spent since Saturday taking my neice who is in a Master Degree program for photography all around New Mexico. She has shot will over 1200 pictures with her SLR digital camera. Today I got a break she is in Santa Fe with a high school friend who is stationed here in the Air Force, good thing since I spent yesterday climbing around Spanish missions from the 1600s at 6-7,000 feet and I'm tired.  :P She makes it look so easy and when she is explaining it I just nod alot, cause I ain't got a clue what she is talking about.

[lmao_37]

She makes it look so easy and when she is explaining it I just nod alot, cause I ain't got a clue what she is talking about.

roflmao  ;D ;D :P

[imschur]

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[asmurff]

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Gun porn purveyor  :grin:

[Microgunner]

The slide on that Caspian 1911 is cut like a P35. How odd.

[imschur]

The slide on that Caspian 1911 is cut like a P35. How odd.

Good eye