Thanks for the comments and sorry to the arachnophobes - I will put a warning on the next spider pic I show. The background is a little distracting and since it didn't often pause on top of the stones which would have allowed blurred background, I had to live with this. Forgot to say that this is a very small spider - 3-4mm body width. DOF is an issue here F22 is sometimes not enough though of course going to F27 would worsen the background distraction.
I have several other shots taken the same afternoon here http://www.pbase.com/kiwibiologist/te_horo_salticid. Arachnophobes aside, is there a favourite amongst these or did I get the pick right the first time (http://www.pbase.com/kiwibiologist/image/91472265)? In answer to Igor - yes the -1.5 EV for the flash is to keep a more natural look and avoid overblown highlights etc. As to the to the +2EV on the body - I do find that the camera and flash combo tends to underexpose - quite badly sometimes, and I need to pump this up to avoid having to do it PP which tends to cause bad artifacts including the notorious banding issues in dark subjects. Even so I still had to add another 1.33 EV in lightroom! In fact, this is the biggest complaint I have with the system - chronic underexposure with the flash and K10D. Alastair On Jan 9, 2008 11:38 PM, Alastair Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.pbase.com/image/91434888. Well 8 actually but 4 big ones - > nice eyelashes too. > > An afternoon potter on one of the local beaches turned up this little fellow. > K10D FA100/2.8 AF540FGZ F22 125th ISO100 +2EV Flash EV -1.5 Handheld > These types of shots are my typical fare but mostly I have posted > PESO's that are a little different and perhaps less successful. > I am interested what people think of these macro nature shots. Not > many on the list post those types of image it seems. > > Comments & Critiques welcome > > Alastair > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
