April 2011 Photo & Captions Comment Thread

[ConcinusMan]

Garter snake scales

Close enough

[zooplan]

Garter snake scales

Garter Snake back or lateral scales is closer but no head scales no vetral shields.

Most digital cameras have a macro mode, most cheap cameras as well, check your manuals!

Take the photo outside where light is better, choose highest quality thats provided by your camera and cut of the most briliant part of the picture.

[Stefan-A]

Scales that have that ridge running down the middle.

Looking at the profile of the scale, it's more like this: }
instead of this: )

[drache]

so do you want just the scales, or is an image with the keeled scales clearly visible good enough?
My macro doesn't do this, and when I go too big, the detail just gets blurry

[ConcinusMan]

Not everybody needs to be alright, all the time.

[drache]

Not everybody needs to be alright, all the time.

ain't that the truth

[RedSidedSPR]

ain't that the truth

It is.

[ConcinusMan]

This is impossible. I'd like to think I have a pretty good quality camera but nothing beats a pro model with a high quality macro lens attached. I can't get this to work at all. The macro lens alone, needed for this, costs more than my camera.

[RedSidedSPR]

This is impossible. I'd like to think I have a pretty good quality camera but nothing beats a pro model with a high quality macro lens attached. I can't get this to work at all. The macro lens alone, needed for this, costs more than my camera.

I'm in the same boat. Cropping seems to be our only hope. Just get the best you can, and crop/zoom, and it should be able to compete. That's allowed, right?

[Stefan-A]

I'm in the same boat. Cropping seems to be our only hope. Just get the best you can, and crop/zoom, and it should be able to compete. That's allowed, right?

Yes, it is.