Recent content by Cal Stanley

Dragonfly Nikon D300 Tamron 180mm f/3.5 macro at about 1:1 Nikon SB-800 flash http://www.flickr.com/photos/calstanley/4850656037/sizes/l/ Cal Windham, ME

I usually try to keep the horizon line away from the center of the image. To my eye it make for a more interesting scene.

If anyone is looking for a good book on macro photography, take a look at "John Shaw's Closeups in Nature". The book was written in the late 80's, so there's no digital-specific information. The author does an excellent job of covering exposure basics, teleconverters, extension tubes...

Hi Paul, It's Cal, not Carl - but I've been called worse :) I just did a quick check with my D300 and a couple of old lenses - a 50mm and a 24mm. With the 50mm on the camera and the 24mm reversed in front of it, 4 letters of a word in bold type on a business card filled my viewfinder. With...

A lot of good IR info can be found here - http://lifepixel.com/ Cal

Paul - Infrared photos can be taken with a screw in filter, but the process becomes much more involved. The IR filter is basically opaque to the wavelengths of light that we can see, so as soon as you screw in the filter, the viewfinder is useless. Back in the days of film we would compose our...

One point I forgot to mention - I'm talking about old glass here - lenses with aperture rings so you can stop down to take the shot.

Nikon makes a "Reversing ring" - the BR-2A that has the same configuration as the camera end of the lens on one side and a 52mm male thread on the other. Screw the ring on the filter thread and then mount the lens by the adapter just as you would a regular lens. They also have a BR3 ring that...

The camera has a 715nm filter and I set a custom white balance on a patch of evenly lit grass. That typically gives me white foliage and a brown/gold sky. Skin tones seem to go to an almost translucent porcelain like appearance. As far as the light blue - I really can't explain it. Other...

Nikon D300 24mm lens reverse mounted US one dollar bill - http://www.flickr.com/photos/calstanley/4101898792/sizes/l/in/set-72157613428449139/ Cal

Nikon D200 715nm IR conversion Nikon 18-200 VR http://www.flickr.com/photos/calstanley/4750385528/in/set-72157623490355725/ Cal Windham, ME

See the post - http://www.realphotographersforum.com/showthread.php?58-Infrared Cal

It certainly looks cold in IR One of the people I work with thought she was looking at pictures of one of the ice storms we've had in the past. Once you get the white balance set properly, IR reproduces foliage as white, giving the appearance of ice or frost covered leaves. Without a...

I started playing with infrared photography one month ago having a D200 converted by Precision Camera in Connecticut. The conversion included the removal of the blocking mirror, installation of a 715nm IR filter, and calibration of the body with a Nikon 18-70 AF-S lens. Some examples can be...

I've been using Nikon film cameras since the early 70's and still have a number of them taking up space in my house - a Nikkormat, three F's, an F2, and an F3. I started shooting digital 4 or 5 years ago with the purchase of an Olympus E-20n. That was sold and replaced with a D200, then a...