Since the inaugural BIMBO* outing at Roma St Gardens a couple of weeks ago, I have been practicing my macro technique on any insect that happened to cross my optical axis.
Today, I got lucky! I found a reasonably cooperative dragon fly in our neighbour’s hedge, although its position wasn’t ideal, forcing me to lean heavily into the shrubs, leaving me teetering in balance, but this seems to have been nullified by the high speed flash that froze the exposures. The series of 3 shots spans approx 60 secs as the insect changed its perch due to my approaching more closely for each shot.
Canon 40D with EF-S 60mm F2.8 macro lens and ringlite MR-14EX.
Manual exposure of 1/250 at F11, ISO100 with -2/3 stop compensation for the flash. Flash ratio was set to A=1:B=1/4
The ring flash really illuminated the neck/head cavity due to it being on-axis with the lens. The Canon EF-S 60mm F2.8 is one sharp lens!
Thanks for looking!
Dennis
* Brisbane Iceinspace Macro Boys Outing
