peter_eisenburger

This is digitized from the old film days. Not very sharp, but a nice

composition, isn't it?

wunderschön, Olaf. das kann man besser nicht machen. 7/7.

Outstanding, Dieter. And what a great lens!

The unsharpness of the upper part of the bee seems to rise from movement. - Not sure where the lavender is ;)

Yes, Usha, of course you are right and I know the rules. In fact this shot was taken with f5.6 and 1/500 sec at ISO 200. 

My tripod is not always close at hand. The greater problem is, there rarely is a day without wind where I live, even in summer, and this picture was taken in autumn. Of course I could fix the branch or pick it and bring it inside, but I like natural scenes. I also find the play with unsharpness fascinating like you did here: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12018231

I wouldn't recommend small apertures like f/22 anyway because of diffraction. 

The uploaded picture is an about 30 % crop of a picture whose sharpness I find not perfect but acceptable after all.

Thank you for your comment.

nice composition, great colours and DOF. I also like the red frame. one of your best shots!

Blossom petals of the Cactus Dahlia "Burning Love". The red Dahlia was

part of a bouquet out of my garden. The colours shining from behind are

other flowers. I found this a nice pattern of colours and light.

Interesting concept, but I think the softening doesn't work here quite, because front-hair, arms and hands are sharper than the face. Also, the edge of the hair seems not perfectly cut-out (blurred edges). But I love the habit, the light and the colours.

In preview mode PN with its downsizing damages the photo heavily. I suggest not to override the limits of size for uploaded photos that far. Many users will not click on the preview to load the original uploaded version.

Out of my garden. Hand-held macro of the compelling perennial sunflower

"Lemon Queen". This crop closely shows the structure of the flower

(German: "Zungenblueten" and "Roehrenblueten").

I will do so. Thank you for your offer.

One of my favourite roses - here seen with Nikon D90 and the

Micro-Nikkor 60 mm / 2.8 D.

Merci beaucoup for your kind words :)

On my homepage, I have a whole collection of butterflies, but photo.net doesn't allow me to send the link :(

They also forbid links to Flickr where I wanted to point you to a gorgeous collection of butterflies by a French woman...

Regarding the distance, there are species that are not so shy like the Meadow Brown and species that are most shy like the Swallowtail. Well, I move very carefully and try not to cast a shadow on them. Sometimes I stretch my arms with the camera in direction of the butterfly.

With this one it was possible to even pick the branch it was sitting on! http://www.eisenburger.de/Garten-Galerie/Schmetterlinge/Blaeuling/blaeuling.jpg

Thank you for the most interesting insight in your working techniques ;) I too crawl in the grass to shoot pictures of butterflies.

Just one thought. An exposure of 1/50 might not be enough to elimate movement unsharpness with a lens of 105 mm (DX = 150 mm). (I don't know, how the extension tube affects this.) -

What do you think of this one? http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12145673

That was in my garden and I didn't have to crawl because it sat on my lavender :)

Great, as the others in this gallery too. But how did you manage to keep the drops in place? Given thier size and weight, they should have fallen down.

Perfect, if the blade of grass would be sharp. But hard to achieve, I know. Also, I would be interested in information about your equipment. Which macro lens do you use?

sorry, the right, literal translation is "lemon butterfly" ;)

Thank you, Roberta. With the limitations of picture size, Photo.net offers only moderate display possiblities for macros.

Here are some links for bigger sizes of the same Brimstone. In Germany we call them "Zitronenfalter" ("citrus butterfly").

http://www.eisenburger.de/Garten-Galerie/Schmetterlinge/Zitronenfalter_2010_3/zitronenfalter_2010_3.jpg

http://www.eisenburger.de/Garten-Galerie/Schmetterlinge/Zitronenfalter_2010_4/zitronenfalter_2010_4.jpg

http://www.eisenburger.de/Garten-Galerie/Schmetterlinge/Zitronenfalter_2010/zitronenfalter_2010.jpg

Nice work on your photo.net profile. The reflections are phantastic. I will comment later. For now, Merry Xmas.

 

Since I have my Nikon D90 I can see much more details in pictures I made

with the Nikkor 60 mm macro lens. I never noticed how furry butterflies are!

The other picture in the folder from the same specimen shows the white

blossom more in focus. However this one seems to be a better

composition. What do you think?

What do you think of this composition? It is cropped from a full peony

blossom and turned 90? to the right.

Yes, Fabian, pretty difficult to take. But "Effekthascherei", don't you think so?

Sehr schön, Stefan.

Jerry, one of the best children portraits I've seen. - How do you scan the KR 64? I love the film but my Coolscan III gives poor results.

I looked around your portfolio and found the Milwaukee photos. Me (German) being there in 1988 for 4 weeks. Brought back memories of a time gone by. I recognized some places I've been. Thank you.

Very impressive, making me somehow sad and thoughtful. The picture is about time and how life runs by. - And it was fun looking at your great portfolio.

Gorgeous. The different tones of the woman and the surrounding areas makes it excellent.

Interesting and well done from a technical point of view. I saw at first glance that the blue colour is not natural because there exist no blue Chrysanthema. The high saturation makes it even more unnatural to my eyes. Anyway - once in a while they don't need to dye the flowers. They will build new colours with genetic manipulation. They are already working on blue roses (arghh). However - taste changes with ongoing time. Some time ago there were only white and "rose" roses (therefore the name). The introduction of the first yellow and red roses were sensations at their time, then breeded in a natural way. But as long as I live there will be no blue rose in my garden!

Dramatic scene.