Elizabeth really likes corn

Waiting for my 'nanas and mangos to ripen...

40 images, stacked focus using E-M1 new firmware, processed in Helicon focus.

2015-12-10 12-26-32 (A,Radius8,Smoothing4) by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

Life imitating art?

Waiting for my 'nanas and mangos to ripen...

Woo-hoo! Yummy!

40 images, stacked focus using E-M1 new firmware, processed in Helicon focus.

That is amazing!!!

How on earth did you manage to get 40 images?

40 images, stacked focus using E-M1 new firmware, processed in Helicon focus.

That is amazing!!!

How on earth did you manage to get 40 images?

The latest firmware for the Olympus E-M1 provides a facility for focus bracketing. You define the number of shots you want (up to 999), define how much you want the focus to move between each shot, and then press the shutter. It then takes the requested number of shots at eighteen frames a second in silent mode (no noise to scare your subject!), then you merge them together in software. Much quicker and easier than the old method of doing it manually! Did a little write-up here:

http://www.pattayadays.com/2015/11/focus-stacking-using-e-m1-firmware-4-0/

Cannibal crow at Lumpini park, Bangkok

The latest firmware for the Olympus E-M1 provides a facility for focus bracketing. You define the number of shots you want (up to 999), define how much you want the focus to move between each shot, and then press the shutter. It then takes the requested number of shots at eighteen frames a second in silent mode (no noise to scare your subject!), then you merge them together in software. Much quicker and easier than the old method of doing it manually! Did a little write-up here:

Thanks for the link.It's really quite mind blowing how far technology has advance.Can the E-M1 shoot 18 fps in normal mode also?

Thought my little Sony was fast being able to do 11 fps,no silent mode though,sounds like a bloomin machine gun.

How did you go about getting the moth shot, was it a hand held shot?

Note to everyone,I would highly recommend taking the time to go and visit FR's website,some very useful info over there!

I suppose this should be in the bird section..... but just outside my door these birds were having a right go at each other the other morning!

it went on for a good five minutes, I guess one gave in !

The first photo is perfect! The second is out of focus/out of speed.

I really like those birds and hope you'll crop the photo further. Stubborn bastards whit their own minds. Just the way I like it.

Mynah bird eating my palm tree fruit:

Young Monitor Lizard. I visited Bangkok this week and these were the fellows I wanted to see.

Water monitor lizard by Pekka Oilinki, on Flickr

Oili. Some shots one really does not get much of a second shot or time to focus as one would like .... I'm sure everyone has that problem sometimes!

I did crop a little but wanted to keep the third bird in the shot... but here it is with a bit more of a crop! it did not help the attacking bird though!

almost a knockout punch!

The latest firmware for the Olympus E-M1 provides a facility for focus bracketing. You define the number of shots you want (up to 999), define how much you want the focus to move between each shot, and then press the shutter. It then takes the requested number of shots at eighteen frames a second in silent mode (no noise to scare your subject!), then you merge them together in software. Much quicker and easier than the old method of doing it manually! Did a little write-up here:

Thanks for the link.It's really quite mind blowing how far technology has advance.Can the E-M1 shoot 18 fps in normal mode also?

Thought my little Sony was fast being able to do 11 fps,no silent mode though,sounds like a bloomin machine gun.

How did you go about getting the moth shot, was it a hand held shot?

Note to everyone,I would highly recommend taking the time to go and visit FB's website,some very useful info over there!

Oops, that should read 11fps; that's in silent mode with no refocusing after the first shot (which doesn't matter because of course the camera is controlling the focus point when bracketing).

The moth was sat on the ground and showed no sign of moving so I had time to set up a tripod. Handheld focus bracketing is probably impossible given the minuscule differences in focus distance involved.

2015-12-14 19-58-57 (A,Radius8,Smoothing4)-Edit by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

2015-12-14 19-58-57 (A,Radius8,Smoothing4)-Edit by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

Looks like a ladybird larva

2015-12-14 19-58-57 (A,Radius8,Smoothing4)-Edit by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

Looks like a ladybird larva

This:

2015-12-14 18-31-36 (B,Radius8,Smoothing4) by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

Uncensored Nature

hatching a bantam chick

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Great series.Nice

Damn magpies are after my palm tree fruit again.

Never mind, the watch-dog watch-cat will scare them off.

Jumping in Circles .. poor fella .

^ Nice to see you post again!

At first it looks just like a huge bamboo bush...

Until you look a little closer and discover where all the rustling noise is coming from:

Another monkey face.

Taken with my kit lens E 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS @ ƒ/6.3, 162.0 mm, 1/250, ISO 400

Got this on Chiang Dao sub summit area.

Sony ILCE-6000 E

16-70mm F4 ZA OSS

ƒ/8.0, 70.0 mm, 1/250,ISO 800

Mother and baby

Sony ILCE-6000 E

55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS

ƒ/6.3, 210.0 mm, 1/320,ISO 3200

Migrating birds.There must have been thousands of them all over the sky not in one

big group but in many smaller ones such as this one.