Messing with the slideshow program again:shrug:

[Royal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPZyXz7hP3U

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

You are showing that just about anything is possible using the slide show format if you use your imagination. I think that I might have been too narrow minded in only thinking about using it for only presenting stories related to traveling the back roads of South Texas. Someone could use the slide show to present just about anything, I would never have thought of using it to present macro bug pictures, but then again, I have not been very good at macro bug photography. You are doing fantastic, lighting a fire under me to get back to messing with my slide show program. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Royal]

it is amazing what you can do with those programs. Heck, you lit my fire and you did just fine with yours. I have a bunch of picures of when I was a kid and I am playing around with them. I am posting mine on my Facebook page as I get more response there than we do here

 

[Wayne in BC]

n/t

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

You have made mention in the past about having some pet snakes, and I keep thinking a baby skunk too! Can you post a slide show on Facebook? Also, will you be burning any of them onto a DVD? Later today, when things settle down, I am going to print the instruction manual for my slide show program...half these programs don't come with manuals anymore, you have to print them from the program. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Royal]

save the ones I get lucky on

 

[Royal]

n/t

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I have had a horrible time taking macro bug pictures because the bug will not stay put long enough for me to get the picture or else they came after me with intentions of biting or stinging me...very difficult to take the picture when you are running for cover. I tried bug spay to kill them dead, then placed them on a plant...it did not work, everyone knew the bug was dead because the legs were curled up under them or else they saw either the pin or scotch tape. I also tried the fly swatter method...that won't work either because the good folks here know that a bug can not fly with only one wing and three missing legs. If you see a hole in the ground, never assume it is a bug, trust me on this...if you pour water down the hole, many times what comes out of that hole will not be a bug and it will be in a pizzed off mood because you flooded it out of it's home, same with a hole in a tree. One last thing, I was told that if you catch the bug, put it in a mason jar, then put it in the ice box for awhile, they will be real sluggish and you can get a good macro bug picture...excuse me, but when you take it out of the ice box and place it on the kitchen table to take the picture, and all of a sudden it goes full speed across the table in the direction of your wife, seeing the look on her face as she is bailing out of her chair is not a sight that you will soon forget. You won't forget what she does to you either. The wife does not like bugs in her ice box or running loose on the kitchen table. Bottom line, a tripod won't help. You will need one of those cameras that will take lots of pictures real fast and then hope that you get a good one out of the bunch. I do not have that type of camera yet. I hope this helps you if you decide to take some macro bug pictures. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Royal]

that bad. I just find them setting and get a shot. Put some honey out or some strawberry preserves and wait. Don't start swinging your arms when a bee comes around you. It is looking for food and you ain't it

Now you must not be a natural photographer because if you was you would be able to get one heck of a great shot of your wife as she saw the bug coming her way. Just before she shot your arse! Now that would be a shot for sure

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

Up until the time that I became a member of this Forum and bought a camera, a bug to me was either fishing bait or food for the chickens and birds, with one exception. Some bugs were great to drop down the back of a girl's blouse in a crowded hallway when in high school. Now days that bug attitude does not hold water, and I am slowly getting a different perspective, one towards favoring macro bug photography. Sooner or later, I will start getting some decent bug pictures, but question if they will ever be anywhere as great as the ones that you have taken. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Wayne in BC]

without that kind of stuff! You just like making up dontcha?

 

[Wayne in BC]

n/t

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I can take good landscape photos, macro flower pictures, but any picture with lots of motion involved, I suck big time, especially bug pictures. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Royal]

n/t

 

[George-CT]

in them are amazing.... Well worth the effort to learn close up photography with them.... Geo-CT

 

[Royal]

I have not done much of it this year yet. Too busy with other things. I am not a fanatic about anything I do. I just like to try new things and then move on