Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon)

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Mar 11, 2003

Bermuda Grass in Australia.

Common name: Bermudagrass
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Cynodon
Species dactylon

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farizona Bowie, AZ(Zone 8B) Mar 11, 2003

This grass causes an allergic reaction in many people.

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Bug_Girl San Francisco, CA Apr 16, 2003

That is an amazing close up. It is very hard for me to get the macro to focus on something that thin.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Apr 17, 2003

Thank you! It was taken with a hand-held camera, and manual focusing, although now I have automatic focus and would use a tripod. The trouble with grasses is that they move in the slighest wind and a lot of patience is sometimes needed to get good close-ups. By no means all come out as well as this one.

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Bug_Girl San Francisco, CA Apr 17, 2003

I am very impressed. I have the same problem with wind moving the flower, that I am trying to macro. We have a lot of wind here in San Francisco.

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Bug_Girl San Francisco, CA Apr 20, 2003

I have been working on the problem. What I did was hold it still with one hand, and click with the other, the hand was in the picture, but then I used the eraser tool in photo shop and selected a green, then I erased the hand, it does not look very professional, but still you can't see the hand anymore.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Apr 23, 2003

I have oftened steadied the stem I was trying to photograph, by finding two forked twigs and placing them either side of the stem, just below my target area. This has been very successful, taking most of the movement out of the stem, often with excellent results.

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Bug_Girl San Francisco, CA Apr 23, 2003

There is a new camera where you can select a foreground object in a manual way to be in focus, you move a curser on the view screen and tell the camera which object you wish it to focus on.

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