I couldn't sleep last night so was up and out before dawn in hope of getting some fox images but to no avail, On the way back to the car i saw this bee still asleep/cold from the miserable night before so decided not to go home empty handed and took some shots from different angles getting differing shades of background, I liked this one best, The liveview really comes into its own on this type of image where you can zoom in on the eye and readjust your focusing
I agree re the grain, The MKIII is excellent at high ISO, this was my partly my fault, The image on the screen was flashing away showing that the flower was blown so i compensated -2/3, This infact was crap, I read in Rousey's write up on the MKIII that the screen shows blown highlights when in fact they were not, I could have run a noise reduction on this but for some reason didnt-a lesson here i guess-dont always trust the rear screen
Posted by Mark Fellowes on August 8, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Hi Dave
Nice shot, different and bags of detail. I don't think that the grain is an issue at all. Liveview must be fantastic for macrowork - I had an early Nikon 'prosumer' in the days when digital SLRs were too expensive for me and the screen made light work of macro (unfortunately the lens and the sensor didn't though...).
Mark
Posted by Mike Smith on August 8, 2007 at 11:53 AM
I don't know if it is my monitor, but I find the contrast between the white flowers and the dark body of the bee to be too much, neither has full definition, one is too light, the other too dark
Posted by David Kjaer on August 8, 2007 at 1:29 PM
Hi Dave
I think you have picked a very difficult subject matter with this image and almost impossible to get it perfect. As you will see I have now got a MkIII and I am very impressed with the quality of the files - I agree with Andy Rouse about the camera showing blown highlights as I took some images of a Speckled Wood on bramble yesterday and the display was showing the white wing markings as blown but as what I was seeing was not a difficult exposure I ignored it only to find later that no highlights were blown!
Cool shot Dave. I too see a bit of noise but you've covered that. Technically, although they don't look blown,the whites look bright and the bee looks a tad dark. Not really a criticism, just an observation similar to Mikes.
Posted by Sean Bolton on August 8, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Hi Dave
Nice shot, well seen and composed. Difficult to get an perfect exposure due to the contrast range between the blacks and the whites but to my eye it looks about right. My LCD monitor shows nice detail in the blacks but my old CRT struggles a bit.
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12 repliesCanon 1DMKIII Tamron SP90mm F2.8 Macro 1/10 @ F13 Evaluative -2/3 ISO800
Particularly like the BG colour.
Regards Chris.
Nice shot, different and bags of detail. I don't think that the grain is an issue at all. Liveview must be fantastic for macrowork - I had an early Nikon 'prosumer' in the days when digital SLRs were too expensive for me and the screen made light work of macro (unfortunately the lens and the sensor didn't though...).
Mark
I think you have picked a very difficult subject matter with this image and almost impossible to get it perfect. As you will see I have now got a MkIII and I am very impressed with the quality of the files - I agree with Andy Rouse about the camera showing blown highlights as I took some images of a Speckled Wood on bramble yesterday and the display was showing the white wing markings as blown but as what I was seeing was not a difficult exposure I ignored it only to find later that no highlights were blown!
David
Nice shot, well seen and composed. Difficult to get an perfect exposure due to the contrast range between the blacks and the whites but to my eye it looks about right. My LCD monitor shows nice detail in the blacks but my old CRT struggles a bit.
cheers
Sean
Nice image and like the comp.
Kind regards
Andy...
The colours look spot on on my screen
Jacqui
Steve