GKPE 8, Yet more NZ ramblings from some flightless Kiwis.

Mark0159 wrote in post #17181485
Nice, i'm find it hard to get good results with the 6D and macro. I just need to practice more

Those are great! How the hang are you quick enough to grab those shots in focus?

FlyingPete wrote in post #17182322
Those are great! How the hang are you quick enough to grab those shots in focus?

thanks, I made a few rookie mistakes tho. I had been testing a friends camera and left the settings on -2ev for about 50 shots. I had shot also in jpg so it's lot harder to bring out the shadows.

Would you believe that I use the autofocus. the exif data is attached to the pictures. Shooting around F11 I try and focus on bee itself on part of the flower. of course there are plenty of shots that are out of focus because they move. The last photo is at ISO3200, because I wanted a really high shutter speed, near 1/1000 because I want to capture the moment and get less blur of the body or wings.

Mark0159 wrote in post #17182365
thanks, I made a few rookie mistakes tho. I had been testing a friends camera and left the settings on -2ev for about 50 shots. I had shot also in jpg so it's lot harder to bring out the shadows.

Would you believe that I use the autofocus. the exif data is attached to the pictures. Shooting around F11 I try and focus on bee itself on part of the flower. of course there are plenty of shots that are out of focus because they move. The last photo is at ISO3200, because I wanted a really high shutter speed, near 1/1000 because I want to capture the moment and get less blur of the body or wings.

How is the real macro lens to use compared with something else and some extension tubes?

Macro lenses are much easier - put it on and take the photo. When I switched from Canon to Nikon I went from the 100mm macro to tubes. Tubes work fine, more fiddly, but you have to choose the right tube and swapping takes 20 seconds. Much cheaper though, and given how rarely I use them (strangely though used them today) they're worthwhile IMHO. I use the medium tube with my 24-70 mostly.

tim wrote in post #17182458
Macro lenses are much easier - put it on and take the photo. When I switched from Canon to Nikon I went from the 100mm macro to tubes. Tubes work fine, more fiddly, but you have to choose the right tube and swapping takes 20 seconds. Much cheaper though, and given how rarely I use them (strangely though used them today) they're worthwhile IMHO. I use the medium tube with my 24-70 mostly.

The 70-200 f/2.8 with a medium extension tube makes an interesting combo, the zoom doubles as a course form of focusing mechanism.

I have got some manual ext tubes and I don't like them at all. apart from the fact that they are manual so I don't have any control over the lenses. everything is such a narrow dof that it's a case you have to do some photo stacking. I have used them on the 100macro but manual focusing it's really easy to lose the subject because you focused the wrong way.

I want to try and get better. I read somewhere that sugar and water is a good way to keep bee's in one spot for a while. Getting them there is going to be the hard part.

Ext tubes are good of you want to get really close. but then perhaps something like this would be better; http://shop.usa.canon.​com …5mm-f-28-1-5x-macro-photo

My tubes let you control the aperture of the lens using standard controls.

yea I should get some better ones.

tim wrote in post #17182762
My tubes let you control the aperture of the lens using standard controls.

Yeah mine do that.

Mark0159 wrote in post #17182848
yea I should get some better ones.

Problem with mine though is I don't trust the construction to handle something as heavy as the 70-200 when carrying it all by the body (i.e. shoulder strap), doesn't happen often but almost enough reason for me to buy some real Canon ones.

Don't be afraid to push ISO, sometime you just need to if you're wanting any real depth of field without using flash. Continuous shooting also helps if you're chasing things that are moving a lot like bees. Manual focus + patience also helps.

Real cool Lloyd!

Mark0159 wrote in post #17182848
yea I should get some better ones.

I have some auto ones you can borrow if you wish.

thanks but that's ok.

Hi guys and gals

just to keep things going

Wife and grand daughter on the boulders at Moraki

cheers
Dave

^nice!

does anyone know how to get 2-stroke hedgetrimmers running? I've one that stopped the other day after being presented with a hedge to trim & hasn't run since. Checked the obvious stuff like spark, fuel & compression so can only assume it's become possessed, and needs to be dis-possessed.
I nearly left the thing at the roadside this evening, but have a faint suspicion that there's only one tiny thing that needs changing, in order for it to run properly again.

suggestions welcome...