paddo's

[Bart de Vries]

|visoflex3|bellows2|extention tubes|m8|

Thanks for viewing.

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

|visoflex3|bellows2|extention tubes|m8|

Thanks for viewing.

Hi Bart,

I'm not quite sure if people outside of the Netherlands get the title, although some might ;-) .
Nice image, by the way, I like the ('frog's') perspective.

(Another) Bart

 

[Bart de Vries]

Hello Bart,
well I trust people can 'google' for paddos ...
Frog's perspective was possible because these mushrooms happen to grow on a dead log. I'm using a Benbo tripod enabling me to position the camera very close to the ground and with a vertical viewfinder on the visoflex it's a piece of cake to frame and focus.

Kind regards.

 

[James Newman]

Very interesting perspective. I am guessing (after Googling as suggested) that paddo's are hallucinagenic shrooms enjoyed by some in your country? We have something similar here but ours can be found nestled in nice, soft, cow patties. I am curious. Is possession or use of these in your country illegal?
James Newman

 

[Bart de Vries]

Very interesting perspective. I am guessing (after Googling as suggested) that paddo's are hallucinagenic shrooms enjoyed by some in your country? We have something similar here but ours can be found nestled in nice, soft, cow patties. I am curious. Is possession or use of these in your country illegal?
James Newman

Hi James,
It appears that dried paddos are illegal, but natural [?] dried and fresh paddos are legal.
What I found interesting though: the Dutch seem to handle paddos all right, but mostly tourists get into trouble taking a combination of beer, paddos and spacecake.
Btw I'm quite sure the photographed mushrooms are no paddos at all, I even doubt if they are safe to consume. I just liked that subject title better

Kind regards.

 

[Michael Fontana]

Bartpaddos
(to make a dinstinction to the other Bart only;-)

your combination of visoflex3|bellows2|extention tubes|m8|works very fine on the macros, your other examples show it too.

I wonder about the used lens (DOF), not knowing really the visoflex-system.

BTW: here in CH, there's similar mushrooms; they grow on cowshit. But I never tried..

 

[Bart de Vries]

dof and diffraction

Bartpaddos
(to make a dinstinction to the other Bart only;-)

your combination of visoflex3|bellows2|extention tubes|m8|works very fine on the macros, your other examples show it too.

I wonder about the used lens (DOF), not knowing really the visoflex-system.

BTW: here in CH, there's similar mushrooms; they grow on cowshit. But I never tried..

Hi Michael,
the lens used is a tele-elmar-m 1:4.0/135mm with detachable head. The head screws into an adapter which screws into the bellows. Extention tubes are also available.
The dof is very shallow at close range, not much more then 0.5 to 1.5 cm depending of chosen aperture. While the lens ranges from f4 up to f16, I stay within f5.6 - f8(f11), which gives me acceptable dof without losing too much image quality, especially sharpness, due to diffraction kicking in at f11 - f16. But in the end it's always a precarious balance between dof and speed.
Good for you for leaving those mushrooms alone ...

Article of interest: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-photography.htm

Kind regards.

 

[Bart de Vries]

errata

Hi Michael,
the lens used is a tele-elmar-m 1:4.0/135mm with detachable head. The head screws into an adapter which screws into the bellows. Extention tubes are also available.
The dof is very shallow at close range, not much more then 0.5 to 1.5 cm depending of chosen aperture. While the lens ranges from f4 up to f16, I stay within f5.6 - f8(f11), which gives me acceptable dof without losing too much image quality, especially sharpness, due to diffraction kicking in at f11 - f16. But in the end it's always a precarious balance between dof and speed.
Good for you for leaving those mushrooms alone ...

Article of interest: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-photography.htm

Kind regards.

Oops a little mistake: aperture ranges from f4 to f22 ...