Thread: Clayton's Macro
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Old 28-12-2009, 02:20 PM
dpastern (Dave Pastern)
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Good attempt, flash would have probably helped. 1/25s is a bit slow when trying to avoid camera shake. If you can bump the ISO up to say, ISO 400, you'd get 2 stops there, so the shutter speed would have been 1/100 in that instance. Flash would also have been a good idea. Most macro imagers use flash, at least, most of the time. The reason for this is that natural light simply forces you to use a shallow depth of field (DOF) and a high ISO (usually noisy). The result is an image that's not really too desirable. The latest DSLRs are far better noise performance wise and you can shoot at high ISOs like 3200 or even 6400 with good performance, something that would have only been dreamed about a few years back!

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