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How time flies

Mon Sep 28, 2009, 7:24 PM
How embarrassing. Has it really been November 2008 since I made a Journal entry here? I do tend to read more than I write.

Some news - this Sunday is Kristy and my first wedding anniversary. I promise you all, it's been the best year of her life :) Seriously, I'm loving married life.

I also wanted to mention in here that I've been pretty flat out at work and at home[1]. While I do browse all of the awesome deviations being submitted, I am usually in and out pretty quick so don't get a chance to leave comments or even reply and thank all of the favs added to mine. Apologies about that. I'll attempt to be more active here I think.

[1] All will be revealed soon.

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:iconalexn-astro:
~AlexN-Astro Aug 23, 2009, 4:08:26 AM
G'day mate... Good to see a fellow IceInSpace member on DA!

Love your gallery!

Alex.
:icontroypiggo:
~troypiggo Aug 23, 2009, 12:51:43 PM
Alex, hey there! I'll have to :+devwatch: you :)
:iconthaumadzo:
*thaumadzo Feb 6, 2009, 6:19:26 AM
Thank you Troy
for adding
Bread Basket [link]
to your :+fav:’s

I appreciate it.

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"Seeing" the unusual...EVERY DAY
:icontjparson:
=tjparson Feb 6, 2009, 2:26:27 AM
hey so i was looking into some cheap alternatives to purchasing hard core macro gear and i found these lens tube extenders
[link]
they can all be connected together and all sorts of fun, but i'm still incredibly new to photography and i really don't understand much of the stuff (though i'm trying very hard)
i was hoping to get your feedback on the stuff, since you appear to have the whole macro thing down and understood

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"Nature is the artist; I'm just the middle-man"
:icontroypiggo:
~troypiggo Feb 7, 2009, 2:15:02 PM
No worries, I'll try to help if I can, but I need to understand what gear you have and what you want to achieve.

What camera and lenses do you have? Do you have a flash/speedlite? What other gear do you have?

What do you want to shoot? (bugs, flowers, or still life?)
:icontjparson:
=tjparson Feb 7, 2009, 10:24:15 PM
i'll be shooting mostly bugs and flowers etc
i have a nikon D90 with the kit lens (18-105mm VR blah blah blah) and a 50mm
and ta this point…i can't really afford to get anything for more than 200 (at least not for a few months)
as for other gear…nothing :(

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"Nature is the artist; I'm just the middle-man"
:icontroypiggo:
~troypiggo Feb 8, 2009, 12:49:53 PM
Ok, gotcha. Well a good starting point will be the extension tubes you mentioned and your 50mm lens. You'll get close to 1:1 macro. Reason I mentioned flashes is that to get a decent depth of field, you need apertures of f/8 to f/11 say, and at the sort of shutter speeds and ISO's you want to shoot at, light will be tricky. Not that it can't be done, you'll just need to compromise. Probably bump up the ISO to 400, 800 or something, keep shutter speeds down to 1/100 or something.
:icontjparson:
=tjparson Feb 9, 2009, 5:06:07 PM
my 50mm shoots f/22-1.8…though i can't seem to get it to shoot when i have it set to anything other than 22 :confused:

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"Nature is the artist; I'm just the middle-man"
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