Thanks for looking, Bruce. It's hard to determine what you're seeing. My calibrated monitor shows no burned highlights in the first pic. I agree about more DOF in the second shot. But like many of yours, it's what I could get with the rig I had mounted. Paul On Nov 7, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
> Hmmm....the first seems very light to me, more than I would expect. > The flash lighting also seems to frontal - but that could just be the > brightness I am seeing. Would like to see it toned way down to see > what it is like. > > The second suffers from lack of DOF (sounds funny coming from me, > doesn't it). I like the idea, but it just needs more in focus. > > -- > Bruce > > > Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 1:30:51 PM, you wrote: > > PS> I went to the Bloomfield Nature Center yesterday, hoping to shoot > PS> some critters. I mounted the A 400/5.6 and the A2X-S converter > with > PS> the Sigma 500 Super and Kirk Xtender on the *istD. In other > words, a > PS> good rig for shooting very small birds at great distance. > However, I > PS> ended up shooting some late autumn plants instead. > PS> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5176323&size=lg > PS> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5176339&size=lg > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
