Peterski

Placed 1^st in the challenge. I think this is some kind of bee fly. It was on the ground cleaning its tongue when I took the shot. MP-E65mm macro lens at about 2 1/2x mag. Taken at McCrae, Aust.

Placed 3^rd in the challenge. Crane fly at about 3x mag.

Placed 13^th in the challenge. Mt. Eliza, VIC, Aust. Moth flew into my study.

Placed 22^nd in the challenge.

Placed 11^th in the challenge. soapy water plus blue food dye.

Placed 5^th in the challenge.

Placed 31^st in the challenge. Stitched using Panorama Maker 6.

Placed 11^th in the challenge.

Placed 13^th in the challenge.

Thanks Ruth.

Placed 7^th in the challenge.

Placed 2^nd in the challenge.

Beautifully done. Love Noosa!

Placed 2^nd in the challenge. Up close and personal with a hairy huntsman spider

Thanks for that. I had 4.0.2 which doesn't work. I've just uploaded version 5 which seems to have fixed the problem. cheers, peter

What version of photomatix are you using? Mine is 4.0.2.

Great action shot, well done.

Apparently I'm not the only one according to these posts on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/photomatix/discuss/72157629794786077/ Looks like you have to convert the RAW's to jpegs or tiffs or ...

They are normal RAW images -1 1/3, 0, +1 1/3 EV's. It works ok when I convert them to jpegs first and then blend them but for some reason Photomatix doesn't like to work with the RAW files. Didn't ...

I've just upgraded my 5DII to a 5DIII and when processing 3 exposures through Photomatix for a HDR the final image comes out in red tones only. This didn't happen with my 5DII and I havn't altered ...