Hover with 400mm none macro lens

I haven't done much macro this year; in fact I wasn't doing it today; but saw this Hover doing it's thing so thought I'd try and get a couple of shots, not easy with a 100-400L on the body. Not brilliant but worth a show I think, they weren't brilliant to start with and I've over cooked them on the sharpening a bit too. Sorry!

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Nice pictures, but I think you could maybe contrast colors a little, or get a new backround....

What! You want me to get a new sky? (that's what the background is in these shots) I think the shots are noisy enough with out upping the contrast don't you? I'm not sure of the minimum focus distance of the 100-400 but these were taken about 8 foot away from the hover and as such are huge crops, I'm glad I got anything at all. I suppose as you suggest I could work on them a little more but they would never be great shots so not really worth the time, thanks for looking and more thanks for taking the time to comment.

Excellent in flight shots -
Brian V.

Good shots with such a heavy lens.
I did the same thing before having the 105, used 100-300 USM for Dragonfly shots

Lawrie

I think you did brilliantly to get these shots. Its hard enough with a macro let alone a lense like that. They are not bad at all

Linda

Thanks Brian, here's another one. Thought this was going to be a good front on in flight shot, unfortunately it turned out to be the complete opposite

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Thanks Linda and Lawrie, if I went out with my Sigma 150 I wouldn't see an insect of any sort for miles.