I didn't use a macro lens, though I'll probably get one at some point. In most cases I cropped a bit and then scaled to a uniform pixel size. As a nod towards integrity I try to keep the aspect ratio the same as the full output.
Looks like a slow shutter to me: 1/20th of a second, at a guess. Any slower and you'd get a blurred blob; faster and you'd get motionless carven glass instead of living water.
What a cool series. Are these with your 50mm f/1.8?
You're suffering slightly with the DOF on the two bee ones, but the dragonfly one (is that what it is?) is spot on. And regardless of that - the composition of the first is cracking.
The first three are with a borrowed zoom lens, the last two with the 50mm. None of the insect shots have quite perfect focusing/DOF but I decided they were good enough to put up anyway.
Wow, it's like that mobile phone advert where they take photos of a dragonfly being eaten by a fish being eaten by a bird being eaten by a bear being carried off by a bird of prey.
The picture of the dragonfly is superb. Looks like it might be a female Skimmer (genus Orthetrum), perhaps the Keeled Skimmer (http://www.geocities.com/pelionature/Orthetrum1.htm), Orthetrum coerulescens.
Yes, I like the dragonfly too (damselfly? I can't remember how to tell them apart), a fraction more depth of field would have the whole body in focus, but that's being picky.
I do this kind of thing all the time. Surprisingly, I have very few insect photographs. Here's another snap with the pocket camera (Casio Exilm-100 shiny but it's not the Olympus E-10):
The first was 113mm, the 2nd and 3rd 200mm. The 4th and 5th used the 50mm lens. The cropping (both inherent to the camera's sub-35mm sensor and in post-processing) may make these figures misleading. The EXIF data is preserved in the published versions so you can jhead them yourself if you like l-)
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Date: 2005-08-18 07:10 pm (UTC)I presume these are mostly exercises in what can be done with a pro-grade macro lens; are they zooms-down or crops-into the full camera output?
Fountain
Date: 2005-08-18 08:55 pm (UTC)Re: Fountain
Date: 2005-08-19 08:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-19 12:46 pm (UTC)The fountain was just a fast shutter.
I didn't use a macro lens, though I'll probably get one at some point. In most cases I cropped a bit and then scaled to a uniform pixel size. As a nod towards integrity I try to keep the aspect ratio the same as the full output.
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Date: 2005-08-20 12:11 am (UTC)Looks like a slow shutter to me: 1/20th of a second, at a guess. Any slower and you'd get a blurred blob; faster and you'd get motionless carven glass instead of living water.
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Date: 2005-08-18 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-18 07:55 pm (UTC)You're suffering slightly with the DOF on the two bee ones, but the dragonfly one (is that what it is?) is spot on. And regardless of that - the composition of the first is cracking.
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Date: 2005-08-19 08:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-08-18 10:21 pm (UTC)Sorry - that was my first reaction, and a little tricky to render in type. These are really really shiny...
I like the first one best, but they are all very wonderful...
tricky to render in type
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Date: 2005-08-19 12:39 am (UTC)I saw lots of dragonflies in Somerset last week - lots of clean freshwater streams - but they are very difficult to photograph.
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Date: 2005-08-19 12:47 pm (UTC)Suit by Moth Bros
Date: 2005-08-20 12:19 am (UTC)I do this kind of thing all the time. Surprisingly, I have very few insect photographs. Here's another snap with the pocket camera (Casio Exilm-100 shiny but it's not the Olympus E-10):
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Date: 2005-08-19 09:30 am (UTC)The fountain's beautiful ("only" 1/1600? I would've guessed more).
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Date: 2005-08-19 08:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
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