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