> Okay, this is my third attempt at getting some decent photos of
the
>Ipomopsis multiflora. I went out fully armed with the heavy Manfroto
3001
>tripod with 3130 head and a few other items. It took me over 45
minutes lying
>on sharp rocks with the tripod column inverted to get enough photos
from a few
>different angles to satisfy me, and here are two of the better ones:
Cool shots--definitely worth the effort. Interesting choice of gear
too. What cam body was used?
I need to look at them at home on my calibrated monitor but perhaps a
trace of LCE would jazz them up a bit and address AG's issue with
some. I don't use diopters much but they tend to produce nice bokeh
for some reason.
As far as ground level eventually went for this:
http://tinyurl.com/c6rvmk7
I believe Walt used a Cullman extension arm that clamped to a tripod
leg.
That center column set up is like having one built in; though trying
to do a high mag stack with the Zuiko 38 on the OM bellows with cross
pol flash on dew laden grass,
I still had to invert the ctr column and mostly accomplished acquiring
a few grey hairs and wet clothes.
Mike
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