Hover fly - (first macro shot)

First time yesterday I thought I would dig out the 180 macro. Not really use to using this, however, here was one of the early attempts. The head of the Chilli flower is blown a tad, plus lost detail in the compression, but...

Now having seen Andy's recent posting, I guess the lens is now going back in the box

Steve

MKIII 180 macro f8 1/250 ISO 4oo -0.33

the hoverfly itself is nicely captured but the composition is not ideal. Also, as you say, the petals are blown which is distracting. But there's plenty of summer left for further practising

Matt

Don't give up, keep on trying Stephen,
this is a very fine lens. Leave all the other stuff
at home and just go out with this jewel.
You will have loads of fun with it.

Bertl

Blown highlights aside I can see where you were going with this one Steve.

The fact that I can see single pollen grains on the eye says to me that the tiff is tack sharp on the subject.

Now if you'd have shot 3 frames at -1.33 and -2.33 EV as well as this one you could have blended the 3 and ended up with faultless image exposure-wise.

Might be nice in portrait format too

The subject looks perfect Steve

Cheers guys, will be out again with it and be getting some more practice in.

Thanks Andy for the advice, lets hope the subject does not move in the time of taking it

Steve

Steve - try using your exposure delay with to shutter mode in Continuous High and pre-set your exposure bracketing on the burst of the three shots - you'll do all three shots in just on a second on a Canon I'd think.

Something I have not done before Andy, but need to check. I am sure, as you say, pre set at -0.33 > -1.33 >2.33 bang bang, then merge the image. Will give it a whirl

Back up north tomorrow, so lets see what happens

Steve