Posted by Mark Sisson on November 21, 2007 at 12:55 PM
In the self same catch-up session that dug the Wryneck out of the "to do" list I found this image of backlit poppies and a hoverfly I waited for an age to get into the right plane of focus!
The odd lens selection is only as I was walking off to photograph a Coal Tit at it's nest site and had camera, lens and tripod over shoulder and was struck by the lighting on these beside the path: seemed odd shooting insects from 5 metres away though!
Mark
1DS Mk2
500mm
ISO 200/f8/1/500
RAW - C1 - CS2 (nothing unusual)
Posted by Andy Astbury on November 21, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Nice comp there Mark, and what a nice image
That backlighting really works well and the 500's DoF has really helped make this work imho - good job/happy accident - attractive result
Posted by jack chapman on November 21, 2007 at 2:03 PM
lovely comp and the lighting is lovely, however the backgroung out of focus poppies are just too bright and are distracting
Posted by John Kerr on November 21, 2007 at 5:19 PM
Thats really nice.
The poppy almost looks like crumpled tissue.
Discussion
6 repliesThe odd lens selection is only as I was walking off to photograph a Coal Tit at it's nest site and had camera, lens and tripod over shoulder and was struck by the lighting on these beside the path: seemed odd shooting insects from 5 metres away though!
Mark
1DS Mk2
500mm
ISO 200/f8/1/500
RAW - C1 - CS2 (nothing unusual)
That backlighting really works well and the 500's DoF has really helped make this work imho - good job/happy accident - attractive result
The poppy almost looks like crumpled tissue.
John