finally learned how to use my lens!

[joshman]

well, i spent the weekend over at my parents place and did the usual photo walk through their extensive (if only half finished garden), taking photo's of all sorts. anyway, i was determined to finally learn to properly use my sigma 70-300mm lens, and i feel i've come pretty darn close to achieving that goal... and i owe it all to paul [1ponders].

your advice of using a smaller aperture when up at cambroon, most certainly carried over into terrestrial photography

and as such, i have managed to produce these fantastic macro photos from that lens.

these are 100% crops, straight out of the camera, the has been NO post processing on my part, other than cropping and saving to a lower quality jpeg, so you get the idea!... i'm fairly pleased with my efforts...

The Ant:
1/400s
f/8.0
ISO400
190mm (308mm equiv.)

The Wasp:
1/80s
f/9.0
ISO400
300mm (485mm equiv.)

The Lady Beetle:
1/400s
f/9.0
ISO100
55mm (89mm equiv.)

The Bee:
1/200s
f/10.0
ISO400
300mm (485mm equiv.)

The Spider:
1/320s
f10.0
ISO400
214mm (346mm equiv.)

The DragonFly:
1/400s
f/10.0
ISO400
300mm (485mm equiv.)


oh yeah, everything was hand held....:D

EDIT: sorry, just realised the spider has had post processing done to it, just a hit of sharpen and contrast adjustment in picasa.

[iceman]

I love the lady bug! Excellent images.

[joshman]

thanks mike!!! anyway, i've gone and put a fair chunk of the weekend's takings here (http://picasaweb.google.com/teh.JDogg/2021102007)

[[1ponders]]

Nice shootin' Josh. Love the wasp shot and the bee shot.

[ving]

top stuff!!!! :D

[snowyskiesau]

Great stuff.
I spent the weekend taking pictures in the Kosciusko national park and looking them over,
it's obvious that I can't claim to have learned how to use my lens :help:

Hope to one day take something worth posting here.

[leon]

We have another naturalist in the making, great stuff Josh, love the Lady Bug.

Leon

[SkySearcher]

Nice shots.

I particularly like the close up of the sunflower. The Lady bug is great and with some post processing it could be a real winner!
Good work:thumbsup:

[ving]

hey josh, what do the full frames look like on these?

[joshman]

hey, you'll find the full frame shots here (http://picasaweb.google.com/teh.JDogg/2021102007), hope this helps, if not, then you'll have to wait till i gets back to brisbane to upload the real ones.
:D