On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:37:16 +0000, The Devil wrote:

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:58:22 -0600, dave weil
wrote:

I took some 30 second exposures of the valve amps at my office, lights
out and varying the aperture control for some snazzy depth-of-field
effects. Black came out black, with no noise *at all*. Cool pictures,
but I like to see the polished copper and chrome reflecting some
light. So I turned the lights on low and took some more long-exposure
shots. Very cool. I was able to close the lens down and put the camera
very close to the valves and get everything in focus. Even the
reflections in the getters came out perfectly. Supposedly the closest
you can put the lens to an object for macro shooting is 28cm, but I
read someone saying you can actually get a lot closer than this and
focus properly. Indeed you can!

I'd love to see some of these!

I'm thinking about scrubbing them! None of them were exactly perfect.
Quality was great, but my composition skills leave a few things to be
desired. I've noticed that what you see in the viewfinder isn't quite
what you get in the photograph. The area actually photographed is
slightly larger than what you see through the viewfinder. Wouldn't be
a problem for most shots, but on macro stuff I found myself having to
mentally compensate.

That's what cropping is for!

I've got a good tripod now and a remote shutter release*. I'd like to
get some really great photos of my amps. When I have 'em, I will let
you know the URL of where I stick 'em.

I recommend pbase.

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Many thanks! I will be looking into this in a week or two. Very busy
at the moment, and all I want to do is play! Bleh.

Got the Barbara Cartland contract, did we?