Posted by John Chapman on September 24, 2006 at 7:30 AM
Hi Bryan
nice picture of the bee and the flowers but the BG. is a bit distracting.
John
Aberdeen
Posted by Chris Lloyd on September 24, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Hi bryan,
The bee looks nice and sharp but the BG is a bit distracting
Regards Chris
www.c-m-l.com
Posted by Malcolm Muir on September 24, 2006 at 1:39 PM
Hi Bryan
Difficult macro shot to get right, with a fairly widely spaced flower head and a an active insect. I think that I might have tried a vertical crop and closed down a few stops to improve the dof. It would have been nice to get the main flower a little sharper. With modern digital SLRs, the slight reduction in resolution from increasing ISO is more than compensated for by better depth of field. The background grasses would have become even more apparant, but a tighter crop would exclude much of this. The insect is a bee mimicing fly - one of the narcissus flies, I suspect. Keep shooting away at garden flowers and insects - it is the best place to practice!
Cheers
Malcolm
Posted by Bryan Mansell on September 24, 2006 at 4:36 PM
Thanks for the responses guys!
I was using 410mm from 1.5 meters away, so quite a lot of unnecessary background crept in. I'll definitely try a different crop, tighter to the flower cutting away the left hand side. I'll also try lowering the colour saturation to try and reduce the distraction from the background.
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4 repliesJust a simple backgarden shot.
nice picture of the bee and the flowers but the BG. is a bit distracting.
John
Aberdeen
The bee looks nice and sharp but the BG is a bit distracting
Regards Chris
www.c-m-l.com
Difficult macro shot to get right, with a fairly widely spaced flower head and a an active insect. I think that I might have tried a vertical crop and closed down a few stops to improve the dof. It would have been nice to get the main flower a little sharper. With modern digital SLRs, the slight reduction in resolution from increasing ISO is more than compensated for by better depth of field. The background grasses would have become even more apparant, but a tighter crop would exclude much of this. The insect is a bee mimicing fly - one of the narcissus flies, I suspect. Keep shooting away at garden flowers and insects - it is the best place to practice!
Cheers
Malcolm
I was using 410mm from 1.5 meters away, so quite a lot of unnecessary background crept in. I'll definitely try a different crop, tighter to the flower cutting away the left hand side. I'll also try lowering the colour saturation to try and reduce the distraction from the background.
Cheers!