A Fleeting Snack by LegallyShort
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A Butterfly stops by for a fleeting snack..
ok so if anyone can help me in getting my 75-300mm zoom in focus.. plzzz help me! i manually focus because of the slowish motor. so if i can get any tips on clarity... it would be very much appreciated!
ok Enjoy!
Comments (8)
girsempa
The composition, depth of field and the light are excellent! Wonderful colors too. Now if you could get the focus right... I guess it's just practice. And a steady hand or tripod maybe. Or a smaller aperture...
LegallyShort
yea... i don't know its reallllly annoying to me! lol andi couldnt set up a tripod.. i would never get a shot. so i don't know maybe i jsut have to get used to it?
Mondwin
Looks really a splendid composition!!!Bravo!V:DDD.Hugsxxx
Onslow
Nice shot - superb colour and composition. It is a little soft as you realise. Shooting these takes lots of practise but I'll say a bit on what I would do and hope it helps. Firstly you need to get the shutter speed right. With a 300m lens the minimum you could hope to handhold would be 1/300th sec and that is with steady hands, better to have 1/400 or more. If your view in the viewfinder was sharp then that is the only problem. However as you have found out the dof is very small on these lenses when a subject is close. A good place to aim at would be to have an aperture setting of F10 or more to get the whole of the butterfly in focus and the background nicely blurred. To get these settings you will need to up the ISO to get the right exposure. For my shots I shoot in shutter priority so would set 1/350th in as my shutter speed then point the lens at a green leaf (in the same light) and look to see what the aperture value would be if I were to take the shot. It may say F8, I then would set my ISO higher, increasing it a step at a time till I got F10 which is my target. I then know to leave my camera at this ISO setting and look for the butterfly to take pics knowing my exposure and dof will be right when I do, no need to worry about settings when you are trying to get the shot. As you rightly say there is no time to set up tripods and worry about settings etc when taking pics like this the butterfly will have gone. These are my basic settings and of course you can vary these ideas to suit your own style but they will give you sharp usable pics and then you can work from there.
short_ribs
Very good advice form Onsolw there!!! :) I've even learned something lol :P But try what he's said and I'm sure you'll be treating us to some awesome shots ;) Thanks for sharing and hope you are having a great weekend! :)
Richardphotos
very beautiful flowers and butty. as they say lots of practise.their advice and also a friendly viewer called Faststone viewer that is free can really clean up the focus, superior to psp or ps
LegallyShort
awesome tips onslow! i will have to try that! and faststone sounds like a good program, i will have to look into that as cleaning up focus is always a plus! ok thanx again guys! -Grant
Chaos911
wow, what a super super work!!!! excellently done!!! :)