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Kyle's Carnivorous Basement Adventures [Picture HEAVY]

  • #61
Kyle,

Beautiful plants! If you dont mind me asking what is the mix that you are using for mexican pings and proportion? I see turface, lava rocks (pouzzolanes), coarse sand, anything else?

Thank you!
 
  • #62
Thank ye, duders.

@gill_za: 2/1/1 turface/sand/lava rock. Well done! LOL!

Just one more thing I was playing around with:

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  • #63
Love the moctezumae shot Kyle!
 
  • #64
Thanks, Drew. ^.^
 
  • #65
wow, the things I'd do...if i only weren't in poverty right now XD
Fantastic work with everything.
 
  • #66
missed this last pic, nice shot. :bigthumpup: You should come over and rephotograph all my stuff for me. Maybe you can make my plants look better that way.
 
  • #67
Thanks you two.

@mass: I'm told the going rate is $100/hour. ^.^
 
  • #68
Little update. Think I'm going to experiment with some new ideas the next few days.

Baby Pinguicula 'Titan'
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Baby Drosera dichrosepala subsp. enodes "Scott's River"
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Utricularia livida
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Utricularia pubescens
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(above image is a stack; dunno why Photoshop decided to play nice with that one...)
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Nepenthes spectabilis x aristolochioides
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Stylidium debile (FINALLY FLOWERED!!! :spazz:)
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Some orchids (I really like the "profile" shots)
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  • #69
Nice Pics Kyle!
Really shows the beauty of these plants!
:bigthumpup:
 
  • #70
stunning photos
 
  • #72
Absolutely amazing. :drool: Those orchid shots, and all of the others, are quite impressive.
 
  • #74
Great shots dude.. Overall a little dark this time around, but super good otherwise.. I really like the pygmy pics, and the orchid profile shot...
 
  • #75
Great show, Kyle. Very nice and clean setup and what amazing photography! :)
 
  • #76
Great pics, as always. :hail:
 
  • #77
Many thanks, everyone. ^.^

@Brie: LOL, whoops. I changed my gamma a while ago for a game and forgot to reset it. >.< They should look better now. Thanks.
 
  • #78
Dang! Those are some awesome macro shots!

Two questions:

1) What are the tubes your are using for leaf cuttings? They look pretty cool.

2) What background are you using? The photos look amazing with the black contrast.

Amazing,

Will
 
  • #79
the utric and orchid shots....soooo smexy....
 
  • #80
Thank ya, guys.
@brinkerh420: They're just glass test tubes from somewhere on Amazon. They don't seem to be working, though. Nothing is doing anything. Nothing's dying, but nothing's growing either, lol. I just use black felt for the background. It's more of a lighting thing though. You can use virtually anything that's dark as the background and get a black background like that if you light it properly.

In other news, after talking with Brie a little bit, I decided to try and totally recalibrate my monitor. Some day I'll get a really nice monitor and a Spyder3 to calibrate it, but I can't afford that nonsense right now. After tinkering with things and being utterly unhappy, I had a sort of epiphany. The screen on my camera -must- be calibrated, it would be silly if they weren't calibrated well on DSLRs. So I held the camera up to my monitor and did the best I could to make my monitor look just like the screen on the camera, lol. I think it worked out well.

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After:
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So hopefully future photoshoots look a little nicer.
 
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