[Dennis]

Originally Posted by lacad01

Excellent shots guys, looks like you had a ball

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Great shot's guys

Hi Adam & Trevor

Meeting and shooting with a bunch of talented macro shooters proved to be a fabulous method of accelerating the developments of my own skills – I can definitely recommend it! It would be nice to see other such gatherings across the country from IIS photogs!

Originally Posted by troypiggo

... is to shoot the camera in Manual mode and set the exposure to maybe one stop less than ambient, and play with the E-TTL flash exposure compensation down to minus 1/3 to 2/3. It's a bit of trial and error, but that's the sort of ballpark.

Thanks Troy – I’ll experiment with that approach and try various settings in our back garden to see what gives the best results.

Originally Posted by StephenM

Nice set of Macros Dennis!
We were lucky with the weather - it would have been a wash-out this morning.
Cheers,
Stephen

Thanks Stephen!

Originally Posted by Sharnbrook

There are some lovely shots there from everyone, in particular the native bee in flight from Andrew, Dennis's wren.

Thanks Mike – I was lucky that the Wren landed in the flower bed a few metres away, and stayed put sufficiently long enough for me to squeeze off 4 or 5 shots using the 70-200mm at the 200mm end. These guys do move fast!

Originally Posted by astro_south

In regards to the background, what do you have your ISO set at? I have mine set at 400 on the 50D and this provides light and colour to the background when your flash has lit up the foreground.

Hi Andrew – I had the ISO set to Auto which mainly dials in 400ASA as the default. I did change it to 100 for the caterpillar as it was a more docile target!

I was very impressed with Adobe Camera Raw for CS4 as it allowed me to claw back almost 2 stops of over exposure on the spider. I don’t recommend doing this as a standard practice though!

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I had set the ration of Flash A:B to 1:4 to help with the modeling. When I shot some coins for practice, 1:1 lighting came out very flat, as expected.

Cheers

Dennis


Cheers

Dennis