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Posts Made By: Jeff Hapeman

June 22, 2004 02:58 AM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

More macro...a bee

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
Like Ty, I had my 200mm macro out this weekend, but without the TC. This is a native resolution shot of a small bee--about 12mm long. Note the individual pollen grains on the bee. One other thing. I had accidentally left the ISO at 1000 when taking this series of macro shots. The benefit was that I was able to shoot at f/22 to get good DOF, with a bit more grain. What really surpised me is how clean this image was at ISO 1000. My D100 is much noisier at 1000 than the D2H, and this grains looks very natural and "film-like."

Jeff

June 24, 2004 02:49 AM Forum: Wildlife Photography

Violent Weather in WI

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
We had only about 5 minutes notice tonight as this tornadic thunderstorm came through, and fast. We are too far out of town to hear the sirens, and luckily I had the TV on. I didn't see a funnel cloud, but right now the news on TV is saying one touched down a few miles away. No one was hurt...luckily...except some trees. I haven't seen a funnel cloud in over 10 years and I wish I could have seen and photographed this one.

A beautiful storm nonetheless! I have a whole series of shots here:

http://www.pbase.com/jhapeman/storm_june_23_3004

Jeff

June 29, 2004 05:28 AM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

Nice Opuntia patch

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
I am in Tucson for work, so I am killing time in the hotel working on some images I took this past weekend. I went out on a photo excursion with my PhD adviser to see and photograph milkweeds; it was the first I had seen him in about 5 years, and the first we had "botanized" for about 8 years. Needless to say, it was fun. We visited two prairie remnants in SW WI, including an area near Spring Green once referred to as the "WI desert" due to all the sand.

The prickly pears were abundant and blooming in profusion. I liked the look of this clump, so here it is. Nikon D2H with 70-200mm VR lens.

Jeff

June 29, 2004 06:47 PM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

Beetle on an Opuntia

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
These flower beetles--I don't have my references available as I am out of town, but it is a scarab. Anyway, they were reveling in the pollen in the prickly-pear flowers.

I liked this shot, since you can see individual pollen grains on the beetle, and the lamellae of his/her antennae spread out.

Nikon D2H with 200mm macro.

Jeff

July 4, 2004 06:55 PM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

Flowerfly

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
This image was taken with my D2H and 200mm macro lens. Since I don't have a good ring flash, I wanted to use natural light. This forced me to shoot at ISO 800, and even then I could still only get to f/9 at 1/125s. At that speed, hand shake and wind come into play, and the DOF is still not the best. To compensate for that, I put the camera on Ch (continuous high-speed) mode, and fired off bursts of 10 shots or so. Usually the first shot or two was a bit blurred from shaking, then the others were very clear as I steadied from depressing the shutter button. I had read about this trick somewhere but never tried it. Worth trying for those who can do it.

This image has been downsized from the original since I am on dial-up up here at our vacation home.

Jeff

July 4, 2004 07:07 PM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

Macro Damselfly

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
Another shot with the same setup as the flowerfly.

Jeff

July 10, 2004 04:45 AM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

Grass-pink Orchid

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
Also known as Calopogon tuberosus. I have photographed wild orchids for about 15 years now, since I was a freshman in college, and we have a lot of lovely bogs up here in northern WI where the orchids are abundant. This is a shot of a flowering stalk in a bog just up the lake from us; I took the canoe over today and climbed onto the floating bog mat to see what was in flower, and found this and the Rose Pogonia in bloom. Nikon D2H with 70-200 VR zoom.

Cropped and downsized for my dialup connection.

Jeff

July 19, 2004 02:25 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Want to see a lotta stars?

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
Check out this image I took last night. Remotely acquired over the internet, this is a 90:30:18:36 minute LRGB taken with a Takahashi FSQ-106N and SBIG STL-11000XM. Not your usual shot with color nebula or galaxies, this is staring into a huge starcloud in the Milky Way in Ophiucus. The Snake Nebula, Barnard 72, is the s-shaped nebula in the middle. Clockwise from the right of B72 are Barnard 68, 69 and 70. The double-lobed dark nebula below and to the right of these three is Barnard 74, and the bowl of the Pipe Nebula, Barnard 78 is the large diffuse dark nebula on the left-hand side of the image. I am sure there are other Barnard dark nebula in this image, but I can't find a way to identify them all. I also I am not skilled in mouse-overs; if someone wants to take a whack at it, let me know.

This is a 25% reduction of the original image; the giant 5.7MB original can be seen at the following link.

http://www.pbase.com/image/31504213.jpg

Hope you enjoy!

Jeff

July 20, 2004 01:59 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Great images everyone!

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
Between work, a vacation and then a laptop failure, I have been offline a good bit lately and have not been able to compliment many of you on some great images, but I did catch up tonight--lots of great stuff.

Jeff

July 21, 2004 03:35 PM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

New Forums Picture Option

Posted By Jeff Hapeman
If you check the "Display Preferences" settings for the forums, you will find that you can now set the forums to display the pictures in the post, rather than as a link. If you are on dial-up, you probably want to leave it in the link setting, so you can choose whether to see the picture or not, but I put it on the setting to show the image in the thread for my broadband connection.

Jeff

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