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Ron Boyes

my swimming seahorse

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Congratulation to Alex for his placing with his image of the free swimming seahorse, most of us know how hard it is to get a good image while these guys are attached to a fan let alone "jumping" from one part of a fan to the next.

 

I have a new respect of how difficult it is to frame these guys, not to mention keeping them in focus while on the move.

 

here is my attempt -

 

regards

ron

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Nice weedy pygmey there Ron! Where was the photo taken?

 

The seahorse face does appear soft, but it could just be the web-sized image.

 

Cheers

James

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The trick is first to use a camera with good AF like the D100. Then stick on a +4 dioptre on the lens and zoom right in, just to really help the AF, and then don't use a spotting torch so that the seahorse doesn't turn away from the camera. :blink:

 

Well, that's what I did, anyway,

 

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Alex

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Wow, wow, and wow. Anybody but you Alex and I would say that it was photoshopped. How did you get 4 swimming at once?

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Wow, wow, and wow.  Anybody but you Alex and I would say that it was photoshopped.  How did you get 4 swimming at once?

 

Even Alex needed photoshop on this one. :blink:

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Yes it is Photoshopped - but it is 4 frames of the same individual traked with the D100's AF. Sorry for not stating the manipulation I thought it was obvious (not trying to decieve). But I took this sequence specifically to create the composite.

 

The individual shot is here:

http://www.amustard.com/gallery_photos/gallery6/2.jpg

 

Alex

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