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Backyard monster.
I'm quite pleased wit this shot of a very small common garden spider in our yard. I would have been happier if the blurrey brown item below the head was sharper, however the model is on a web in the open air, and being bounced quite severely by the wind, or my breath! This meant that multiple saots at various focus lengths was not posible... need to move the garden inside!
The brown item is actually food being consumed by the beast!
Taken form a distance of approximately 35mm usin Minolta MD 35-80 macro zoom mounted on Optomax bellows. Imaghe is lit by an LED macro ring flash.
| Brand: | Sony |
| Camera: | Sony A580 |
| Lens: | see Description |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 1 Sep 2011 - 12:24 PM |
| Aperture: | f/8 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/125sec |
| ISO: | 800 |
| Exposure Mode: | Manual |
| Metering Mode: | Center-weighted average |
| Flash: | fired |
| Title: | Metellina Segmentata Juvenile Female |
| Username: | 
IanYates |
| Uploaded: | 2 Sep 2012 - 5:23 PM |
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A very strong image. Loads of impact. The qualty is especially good at ISO800 and with a zoom lens, which is not normally the best tool for macro. There are interesting discrepancies. You could not use f1 with that lens so that is a function of loss of communication due to the bellows. Did you set a much smaller aperture manually?
Your keywords say flash. Did you use flash? If so, why not use ISO100?
Paul
Paul, the lens is a manual lens... aperture was set for optimal sharpness... could have used smaller for improved DOF...
The "flash" is an inexpensive macro ring flash, LED lit at 150th sec... A proper flash would have helped, but to get this shot I had to get as quick a shot as possible, as the spider was vibrating on the web in the breeze... very tricky and I ended up just holding down the trigger to get as many shots as poss, hoping one would be in focus...
I have no worries shooting anything t 800ISO with my Sony as it handles noise/low light etc better than anything around IMHO... I would of course prefer lower ISO, but again, this shot was about speed.
Thanks very much for the input!
Technically, it's a flash... it is set of by the camera's hotshoe... It is a £30 item, a tenth of the cost of a true ringflash... I am very pleased with it actually... never used a proper one, so I can't compare... but for the cost, you can't complain!
F8, I have no idea what the focal length was... the lens is locked to macro at 80mm, and the macro zoom is at 1:4 (ranges from 4-6). However the bellows changes all this!
Technically, it's a flash... it is set of by the camera's hotshoe... It is a £30 item, a tenth of the cost of a true ringflash... I am very pleased with it actually... never used a proper one, so I can't compare... but for the cost, you can't complain!
F8, I have no idea what the focal length was... the lens is locked to macro at 80mm, and the macro zoom is at 1:4 (ranges from 4-6). However the bellows changes all this!
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