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Very nice!

This is great. This is just great!

This is really sad because I really liked your articles and reviews. Now, I'm just mainly here for the forum, but I understand fully your standpoint.
Isn't there any alternative way to get lenses, cameras and accessories for reviewing. A sony independent source would be even better.

Birma wrote:All wonderful shots Marcell and they are so unusual as well. I especially like the picture of the Pike. It looks like it is sizing you up to decide if it will eat you or not!

Thanks Birma,
The pike was really big and let me close but gave up and swam away after a while.

Yesterday the summer came back a bit and I used the opportumity to visit a lake I always wanted to explore underwater. I think I found my new favorite diving spot. The water was clear and the lights were really good. I used a nex-5 with the 16mm lens in a cheap housing (with external strobe): https:...

Hi Toni, Nice work. I really started to follow your blog recently, especially because of your close-ups and macros. Nice work with the Zeiss Touit 2.8/50. I still have mixed feeling about this lens. No question, that the picture quality is perfect, but the price for this perfection is too high for ...

Hi Toni, Nice work. I really started to follow your blog recently, especially because of your close-ups and macros. Nice work with the Zeiss Touit 2.8/50. I still have mixed feeling about this lens. No question, that the picture quality is perfect, but the price for this perfection is too high for m...

Something that occured me liter later: have you tried to do panoramas with that setup? Might be interesting experiment and look very different from most of the macro photography.. -Toni -- Toni Ahvenainen (1976) Year of the Alpha - 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: http://www.yearofthealpha.com F...

Adding Fisheye to WA lens "eliminated" distortion? Interesting. Thank you for the info. Sury I don't think it's eliminated distortion. It's just not obvious because of the subject (who knows the real shape of this mantis). I will test this combo with brick walls soon. I already observed s...

Can you share details of post processing Marcell? Are the images cropped ( I presume so) etc. that underwater lens (INON) seems fascinating but available only for Canon, m3/4 and GH. The last photos of the praying mantis are straight out of camera jpegs. I just resized and sharpened them. The first...

Thanks Sury and Tony, I keep experimenting with this setup, but it's a bigger challenge compared to using longer macro lenses. The background in this case is as important as the subject in the front (that can't be shy since it has to tolerate the lens). Hopefully I can post some mushroom photos in t...

Few more pictures with the same technique:






Cheers

Marcell

Hi Marcell, an interesting combination. The subjects are all in wonderful detail. I guess one effect the combination effect gives is to add detail to the background through adding the wide angle element? There is still a good separation between subject and background, and you've chosen good backgro...

sury wrote:I like them a lot Marcell. I am wondering if the butterfly in the 3rd one is like that
or overexposed? Just curious.

Sury

I have to admit that it's slightly overexposed.
(I also used flash and this range it behaved strange and required some negative correction, which was hard to guess)

I've wanted to photograph a field of lavender for some some time and I got the chance last week. This is a commercially grown field in the Cotwolds, Uk. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5570/14618076569_65b0c37012_b.jpg Purple Waves by Birm , on Flickr a99 and Sigma 12-24 (I think) Great photo with t...