Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Macro photography is hard because its a lot harder then we think to do it and we compare them in our minds eye to the body of work out there much of it done by macro specialists out there who know all this and not shooting wide open at ok shudder speeds but shooting stopped down two or three at in effectively very high slices of time as they are using strobe which becomes the shudder speed. We have those images in our brains and they they are normal. You'd think 400th of a seconds would be cool for a 60mm lens but for ultra macro like this its borderline. With strobe use that shudder speed is in effect 20,000th of a second. Bee and flower stopping close in. And f 2.8 gives you a millimeter in focus front to back how much of this is on the bee? The guys out there are shooting at f8 and getting 2 or three millimeters in focus not just one or two. And bees move faster than rocket ships. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Ji m Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:38:55 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Bumblebee > > Hi Douglas, > > I like the composition, and the sharp focus on the insect, but the OOF area > seems too prominent to me. I would suggest trying, in the future, to go to > ISO 200 or 400, and stop down a couple of stops, to get more of the flower > head in focus. > > I find that I am using f/10 for many of my closeups, to avoid this sort of > thing. That may be too extreme for you, but you might try some compromise. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> > To: <leicareflex at freelists.org>; "LEG" <leica at freelists.org>; "LUG" > <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:27 PM > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Bumblebee > > >> Hi all, >> >> Although I waited about half an hour and could hear them making loud >> shnuff-shnuff noises under our front step, our pair of resident >> hedgehogs didn't show their faces. >> >> So here's a Bumblebee in our back garden this afternoon. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Bits+and+Pieces/_MG_1096.jpg.html >> >> Big (and without the gallery background): >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/227816-1/_MG_1096.jpg >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information