I hope you're not getting too sick of all the bugs, because here's some more. I think I'll have to start trying something a bit different with the bugs, or else find some new ones. They're starting to look a bit repetitive to me.
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| Bit bigger dragonfly, but still not the big one I'm chasing |
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| Mating Flies |
The trickiest part besides getting them to stay in one place might be the focusing, because just a tiny distance will change the focal plane to the wrong place.
Here's a few I tried in the garage, the first one is with the bench grinder, the second with an angle grinder. I had the shutter open for maybe 10-20 seconds on them.
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| I inverted the colors just for fun |
Hey thanks for the reply back the other day.
ReplyDeleteThese are fun photos! I think these bug ones are the best yet. The dragonfly photo's center of interest is the wings, so that makes it interesting. I also really enjoyed the inverted color photo, but the regular color was actually I think the best; nice angle, interesting, good depth of field, etc.
By the way, have you ever tried cropping the photos in photoshop? sometimes it works, but if you go too small sometimes I think you've found they get grainy. But most times you don't need to trim off a whole lot, usually just enough to shift the object from the center to the semi-middle.
What shutter speed did you have, and I'm assuming you are using a tripod?
I crop most of them just a bit, the bug ones more than others as my lens won't get them big enough. I like the suggestion about moving them off center a bit, I'll have to remember that, I think the space where they are looking is more interesting than the space that is behind them.
ReplyDeleteFor the shutter speed, do you mean for the bugs or the sparks? The bugs were fast enough that I didn't need a tripod (1/50 - 1/100 or so generally), but for the sparks I used a tripod. I looked it up, it was 3.2 seconds and 6 seconds.