Flying High Part 2
Tonight I did another macro trip through the neighbourhood and I spotted some hooverflies. In the last few weeks I'm slowly building a "bug in flight" database and these are a nice addition to my collection.
I was very pleased with the photos I got tonight and even more so with the succes rate. The first 4 images are from a series of 8 photos!That's a whopping 50% succes rate :-) Even for my standards I'm very happy with that number!
I used my Pentax *ist-DS with a side mounted AF400T flash again in combination with the FA* 200/4.0 macro lens as this lens has the best manual focus feel compared with the A* 200/4.0 macro. Aperture was set fixed at F16 and the distance to subject was about 60 to 70 centimeters. The flies would slightly overexpose with these settings, but nothing that wasn't within the RAW files limits so no real information was lost here in postprocessing.
I liked the series so much that I'm currently wondering what I need to do to improve these photos in the future. Perhaps two of them in the same frame facing each other?
I was very pleased with the photos I got tonight and even more so with the succes rate. The first 4 images are from a series of 8 photos!That's a whopping 50% succes rate :-) Even for my standards I'm very happy with that number!
I used my Pentax *ist-DS with a side mounted AF400T flash again in combination with the FA* 200/4.0 macro lens as this lens has the best manual focus feel compared with the A* 200/4.0 macro. Aperture was set fixed at F16 and the distance to subject was about 60 to 70 centimeters. The flies would slightly overexpose with these settings, but nothing that wasn't within the RAW files limits so no real information was lost here in postprocessing.
I liked the series so much that I'm currently wondering what I need to do to improve these photos in the future. Perhaps two of them in the same frame facing each other?
posted by Mike at 11:44 PM
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