Calochilus grandiflorus
Submitted by takalaua on Tue, 26/02/2008 - 20:03
Calochilus grandiflorus (Benth.) Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 20: 551 (1915).
Distribution:: SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
This is a terrestial species.
Growing in nature, in a coastal area of Northern New South Wales, close too fresh water.
John
very special photo
That is a very special photo John....lovely depth of field and so sharp!
What camera and lens do you use...Canon somthing I take it?
Regards wellsy
Camera and lens.
Thanks Wellsy,
Canon 1DsMkII, Canon 180mm L Macro Lens.
Sometimes I replace the Macro with a Canon 70-200mm L IS Lens and add extension tubes.
Photography drives me crazy but its ok when everything works together.
John
nice equipment
Very nice equipment John....
Don't laugh...but I'm actually hooked on my Sony Ericsson mobile phone camera at the moment. It's a K800i with a 3.2meg resolution camera equipped with a Carl Zeiss lens that has better than you would expect Macro function. This was one you have commented on taken with the K800i http://www.orchidsonline.com.au/node/395 (not in macro mode) while this one is in macro mode http://www.orchidsonline.com.au/node/2489
I also use a Sony DSC-F717 5meg and a Canon Ixus 5meg at various times as well but the phone is always in my pocket and becoming my weapon of choice. It's great when you are visiting and an unexpectedly good subject is in flower.
I find that for use here on the website all of these cameras do an adequate job as the limit here is 800 x 1024 anyway.
Still...one day I'll most likely shout myself a nice digital SLR with equally nice lenses....but for now that is a way off.
Regards wellsy
C.grandiflorus
Thanks John for sharing this superb species and image. I think 'Grand' is the correct terminology. Wish I had this species growing locally and be able to pop across to PNG and explore.
Nothing wrong with wishing is there?
bernabu
Wishing
Thanks Bernard, yes nothing wrong with wishing, sometimes they come true! What country are you in?
Cheers John
Nice phone and lens
Wellsy, now this interests me I would love too carry a phone into the wild and capture images. The Canon is too big too lug around in the jungle which I did in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. Heat, humidity and camera weight do not work together, good for exercise, but not for comfort.
Too come here too this site, and view photographs done with entheusiasm and appreciation, people moved too select and record orchids, is good too see. Angle is important with using photo capture equipment, you compliment the flowers, and their botanical structure is clear in your work. Do you do much post processing in preparing the image for the web, like sharpening, or do you download them straight from the camera/s?
Cheers John
Look at the Nokia N93i
It is a bit pricey, but also has a Zeiss lens with 3X OPTICAL zoom, 3.1 Megapixel camera which also does excellent DV quality videos as well.
I can send an example if anyone is interested.
My stable consists of the Nokia, an Olympus FE120 6 Mp point and shoot which I use for most of my orchid photography, and 3 Canon EOS 650
camera bodies with 100mm Macro lens, Ringlite, 7 element AF 2X teleconverter, 100 - 300mm AF zoom, 2 x 35 - 105mm "standard" lenses and a 500mm manual focus mirror lens for those hard to get close to subjects.
I also purchased a light tent from http://www.ezcube.com/ which has enhanced my results no end. This folds into a small pack which is easy to take into the field and shelter terrestrials from the wind and give good even lighting. Nothing worse than trying to focus on a tiny native terrestrial while it's flapping in the breeze.
3 x EOS bodies?
wow! now thats fairly extravagant Anton. Do you have them setup with the 3 lenses mentioned?
Do you use your phone camera a lot?
I have been promising myself a light box for a very long time....one day!
Regards wellsy
Yep....3
Wellsy, I am a medical photographer by profession and bought them when I worked in the States back in 1990 as part of my job.
It cost me less than half to buy them there that what it would have cost me to buy them here in Oz, taking into account the exchange rate at the time. We are really ripped off here in camera gear.
I use my Nokia quite a bit, ESPECIALLY THE VIDEO SIDE OF IT. I actually it in won a competition run by Zeiss late last year for the best Ophthalmic image for their 2008 Ophthalmology calendar using their equipment. There were 280 entries from Australia and NZ and my image became the "cover girl", plus two other images were chosen as well.
Not just a pretty face. ;o))
Anton
Ophthalmology photographer
cool...an Ophthalmology photographer eh....sounds like it would be an interesting job.
Regards wellsy
Here's a Brief Personal Bio
This will give you a brief idea of who I am and what I do.
http://www.health.adelaide.edu.au/ophthalmology/staff/clinical/drew_anto...
Pity they didn't do the personal interests. :o/
Regards
Anton
Checked them
Hi Anton,
thanks for the info, cool too see what your using too. I would love a 500mm Lens too use to capture, distant objects, and would combine it with the Canon's 2x Extender and 1.4x Extender. Telephotos are good to use with macro too reduce depth of field.
I want a light tent too. I had not realised that they came in so many sizes, and with so many accessories. I have seen excellent images of orchids done in them.
They are good for using to keep an orchid out of the wind when wanting too use slow shutter speeds and small apertures too increse depth of field in an image.
Enjoyed your information
Thanks again
John
ezcube
Hi Anton,
Don't know where you live but if you live in Australia how did you get hold of an ezcube? I have been to their website but they only ship to US and Canada. I TRY to photograph glass beads and the results are very poor. I desperately need something like an ezcube.
Thanks
Don
re EZCUBE
A colleague in San Fransico bought it for me and shipped it over, but by now, they should be sending overseas.
I sent a long message to the owner stating how much business he was losing by not doing overseas orders.
Email him directly and put your case to him.
They are a brilliant item, if you go to my Web site, you can see mine there in the orchid section.
www.antondrew.com Mine is the 30" model, but after getting mine, they then brought out a 40" model......just my luck.
I could do with the larger model.
The 12" or 24" models would suit what you want. The lights they sell are available here in Oz from Pro Photo shops.
Regards
Anton
heat and humidity
Tell me about heat and humidity in the jungle John! LOL....I very successfully killed a Pentax K1000 (35mm SLR) and a very nice assortment of lenses when I lived in the tropics many years ago.
I do not do anything much in the way of processing prior to posting my images other than cropping and resizing...I use paint shop pro (by Jasc) for any and all image editing tasks. I love it....nice program! Ohh...I must admit that I occasionally fiddle with colour balance and maybe a couple of other things but rarely.
Regards wellsy
Little Adjusting
Well I think storing your equipment with packets of material that absorb moisture is one way of dealing with tropical moisture problems but it is bit late now for the Pentax K1000. Sorry too hear that!
I process a bit masking unwanted things that take away from the subject, and adjust them, like in the last Bulbophyllum? post, I took out the natural background from the image. You can see the natural background in the detail, posted with it. I always sharpen for the work I post. I use Photoshop CS2 for most adjustments.
Regards John