not sure what it is called, just reminded me of the little water creaturein Promethius, all natural lighting, and worked for shallow depth of field, and more of a hi key view. Thanks for the C&C , I d...

beautiful image, i hope you dont mind if i post one of my recent ones here also, the processing is very interesting, beautiful colors

i apologize for omiting any details, camera was a canon 5d, with 100mm is macro lens, apeture was f4 shutter was around 1/60th, hand held

Big start barbara, here are a few of mine

actually the bee had come from 2 other sunflowers and was spreading the pollen around and making the plants happy, i was just curious if people thought i was too close, as i love macro, and sometime...

been doing some expereminting, and want to get a feel if im going in too close, or should i open it some some

well, mine was before they started making pinhole kits and cameras, and it did ok, nothing i would pay a lot of money for, soft images of course,

take a empty oatmeal container, cut a small hole on the bottom and tape some tinfoil on it, use a really small needle and poke a hole, clean off the excess on the inside of the hole and put your film ...

I used to use a oatmeal container, and used a tiny needle to make a hole in tinfoil, and used 4x5 film cut into a circle, it was a lot of fun but also if you dont like wet darkroom work you might want...

nice images Don, heres one from a couple days ago of a friendly little damsel fly

Lightroom and download the free perfect layers for a lightroom plug in, and you have the whole enchilada

Thats what these sites are for isnt it, to hlp and encourage others to excell in their photographic endeavors

sure i will bare all: canon 5d camera 100mm macro with 12mm extension tube, exposure for this image was iso:500 aperture: f6.7 with plus one exposure compensation at 1/200 second exposure, which your ...

Thank you for the comment Barbara, im liking my new extension tube more and more as i get used to it, the amazing part is this was hand held

A friendly little bee at soos creek arboretum

Don Schaeffer Wrote: (May 29, 2013, 14:55) -- melvin Wrote: (May 25, 2013, 10:30) -- heres a frindly little puffin shot last weekend -- The poor bird, the flash made it suffer. Very unusual perspe...

heres a frindly little puffin shot last weekend

melvin Wrote: (Apr 18, 2013, 08:46) -- i would like to ask for critique of these images and see if someone has a idea to make them better -- Heres a lighter and more contrast version of the plant, ...

i would like to ask for critique of these images and see if someone has a idea to make them better

Don Schaeffer Wrote: (Apr 7, 2013, 15:12) -- http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oWvWz10gUv8/UWHgh-4uDYI/AAAAAAAACqs/c_lDP2ejBys/s320/roofer.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-usOvhKTHbOY/UWHgqWbBIyI/AAAAAAAACq0...