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Recipe for Mr Pawnbroker
Ingredients:
One Oak leaf (covered in Oak Apples)
One Ladybird
One Nikon D80 plus SD card
One Tamron 90mm Macro lens
One Velbon Mini Tripod
Patience
Method:
Take the Oakleaf with the ladybird asleep amongst the oak apples, place it on a flat surface and set up the camera. Wake up the ladybird using a fine twig until such point as he starts walking all over the leaf and the apples. Every time he walks off the leaf, ensure he is gently placed back on the leaf, preferably on an apple too. Using manual focus and aperture setting of f4, click away as many times as possible just before he gets totally fed up and flies off.
Take out the SD card and process the RAW images using Capture NX. Then move the image into PSE to crop and add the border, oh and tweak the contrast a touch. Give it an appropriate title (three balls of the pawnbroker...get it?).
Thanks for looking, comments and criticism most welcome. Please take time to view the LARGER image to get the full impact.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend
Mike
| Title: | Mr Pawnbroker |
| Username: | 
mikesmith |
| Uploaded: | 1 Oct 2006 - 6:46 AM |
| Camera: | Nikon D80  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | Tamron 90mm macro  Check out Totally Tamron! |
| Recording media: | ISO 200 RAW |
| Tags: | Close-up / macro, Wildlife / nature |
| Votes: | 108 |
| Modifications Welcome (Upload a Modification) |
Comments
I love recipies, and this is a great one! 
Superb macro work Mike - love it!
Anna
i'd get the one that refused to cooperate and always showed me it's bottom!
Great capture,
Chris.
A superb capture, with great colour, sharpness and composition. All nicely presented too. Good work, only next time pick on someone your own size!
Dave 
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This is fantastic Mike,
Love the description.
Large pic is terrific.
Hilary
Brill! Lovely shot, very well caught! Like the description too!
Sometimes, by chance, you stumble over a gem. It is my lucky day, today. This is one hell of a shot - and the recipe is fantastic. I just wonder how it comes, that there a no comments on this picture. Is it possilble, or what happened?
You got the right amount of clicks - but not a single person found it worth to comment?
Superb, first class photography Mike.
Johanna
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