On Jun 20, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote: > First off, apologies for the horrible pun of a title. > > Now, onto the photo. I took it today at the mimosa tree in my front yard. I > did some experimenting to see what kind of setup I need. I would've liked the > bee to have been a bit sharper, but I though maybe the blur would lend a > sense of motion. Just not sure if it works. > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/7412081522/
That is not the worst picture I've seen this week. Very nice. > K20D, Promaster 70-300/4-5.6, ISO 400, 1/400, f/8 > > I'm guessing I'm going to have to bump up the ISO and shutter speed enough to > compensate for another aperture stop at f/9 to get a little more DOF. > > I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions anyone has to offer. I don't know how much more you could push the ISO with the K20D. It's probably worth doing a test series with both the K20 and the K-x bracketing ISO, f-stop and shutter speed to see where the sweet spot is. The other option would be to try using a speedlight. You won't be able to get a shutterspeed faster than 1//160 on the camera, but the flash duration will be a lot shorter. If you were to try ISO 100, f/16 or f/22, at 1/125 or 1/160, then use the strobe to fill in, you should have enough light from the strobe at short distances to use the higher f/stop, you'll get an interesting mix of blur and frozen on the bee, and the background will be de-emphasized by being a couple stops under exposed. > > Thanks! > > -- Walt > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
