A flying dragon & a sharp-eyed bug -- Macro in photography-on-the.net forums

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Dec 09, 2005 02:11 | #1

This one is not really a macro. It's what I try to shoot for target practice when the birds are making themselves scarce. The BG is OOF coconut fronds against the blue sky.

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IMAGE: http://www.pbase.com/liquidstone/image/46674693.jpg

I don't know the name of this bug, but this shows how thin the DOF of a macro lens is when shot wide open at close distance - 300D + 100 f2.8 USM macro, 1/100 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100, hand held, in available light:

IMAGE: http://www.pbase.com/liquidstone/image/37871675/original.jpg

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Dec 09, 2005 02:27 | #2

Well pic#1 is one of the best DIFs (dragons in flight) I've seen . Much better than I've managed to date. Excellent. What mode did you have the camera in for pic#1?
#2 is difficult because of the DOF- think you might have been better off going up to iso 800 or something similar and smaller aperture.
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Dec 09, 2005 02:42 | #3

#1 is as Brian says, one of the best DF's in flight posted here. Well done. For some reason I cannot see #2 - any ideas?
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Dec 09, 2005 03:04 | #5

I haven't seen a better D/F shot than no 1 well done EW.

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Dec 09, 2005 03:13 as a reply to @ LordV's post | #6

LordV wrote:
Well pic#1 is one of the best DIFs (dragons in flight) I've seen . Much better than I've managed to date. Excellent. What mode did you have the camera in for pic#1?
#2 is difficult because of the DOF- think you might have been better off going up to iso 800 or something similar and smaller aperture.
Brian V.

Thanks for the comments, Brian.

In number 1, I used my flying bird setting - AI servo centerpoint, Av priority, no EC. It took a lot of tries, as these little critters are difficult to frame in the VF because of their erratic flight pattern.

For No. 2, I plead guilty to playing with a very narrow DOF. I wanted to check if I can AF the lens accurately while hand held and wide open at this close distance. Of course, for the serious shots, I go to f/16 - f/22 and use a tripod, remote switch and a slave flash...

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Dec 09, 2005 05:46 as a reply to @ liquidstone's post | #7

That Dragonfly in flight shot is simply awesome, excellent work, very impressive.

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Dec 10, 2005 05:42 | #8

The first one is a Masterpiece

THe second is excellent, IMHO. I always do something like it ...

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Dec 10, 2005 20:45 | #9

The first one is fantastic....

Gary Fairhead C/C welcome .....

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Dec 10, 2005 22:19 as a reply to @ Gary Fairhead's post | #10

I love the first pic. Great work.

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Dec 11, 2005 18:02 | #11

That dragonfly is fantastic. Flying bugs are very difficult to capture well, but you did it.

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Dec 12, 2005 02:55 as a reply to @ Leorooster's post | #12

#1 is a stunning in flight shot!!!
I'm still trying to get a decent one....so far no luck. :rolleyes:

#2 though with shallow dof, works for me.

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