Posted by John Arthur on April 23, 2007 at 8:50 AM
d200; 105mm micro; 1/160-f9; iso 100; unsharp mask in Capture NX and cropped
Cheers
John
Posted by Daniel Read on April 23, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Hi John,
I like the general composition of this, with the hoverfly on the boldly coloured flower, but the large out of focus area on the left is distracting, and there doesn't appear to be much detail on the fly (maybe a bit underexposed?). I think a deeper depth of field would've helped overall.
Dan.
Posted by John Arthur on April 23, 2007 at 10:11 AM
Hi Dan,
thanks for the comments, still grappling with the fact that high f numbers on a macro do not give you huge amounts of DoF, I need to start using that dof button on the front of the d200 that I paid all that extra money for. I have cropped more and messed with the levels to try and bring more detail but overall the image could be sharper but this was handheld. looking at it again I have probably cropped too much now but anyway here it is.
John
Posted by Paul Gibbs on April 23, 2007 at 10:44 AM
I prefer the tighter crop, but i feel it needs probably f11-16 to get the DOF big enough to get the body in it.
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4 repliesCheers
John
I like the general composition of this, with the hoverfly on the boldly coloured flower, but the large out of focus area on the left is distracting, and there doesn't appear to be much detail on the fly (maybe a bit underexposed?). I think a deeper depth of field would've helped overall.
Dan.
thanks for the comments, still grappling with the fact that high f numbers on a macro do not give you huge amounts of DoF, I need to start using that dof button on the front of the d200 that I paid all that extra money for. I have cropped more and messed with the levels to try and bring more detail but overall the image could be sharper but this was handheld. looking at it again I have probably cropped too much now but anyway here it is.
John