Week Five Pictures
Posted Jun 21st, 2006 at 10:08 pm in Photography, Traveling About
I finally got enough of an internet connection to put up pictures from week five. They’re really not much, but they include some nice scenic shots from one morning, and a cool head on pic of an Esenbeckia fly.
Next week’s pictures should be better, as my wife is coming out this weekend, I’m taking a few days off from thesis work, and I’ll be using the camera to see what cool things I can come across.
What I like about the Esenbeckia shot is the shallow depth of field which brings out the detail in the eyes, antennae, and forelegs. The wings, which would normally demand more attention, are nicely blurred in the background.
Do you remember what lens and aperture you used?
Keith, you can read all about the camera I use here. As far as the details of the shot, the nice thing about digital is that they’re all saved with the picture. It was taken with the equivalent of an 88mm lens (the digital lens is different somehow than a film lens). f 4.4, 1/263 shutter speed. The reason the macro shots sometimes look cool is that they have the depth of a field of a piece of paper… Sometimes it works with you, as in this shot, and other times, it can be very frustrating, because you can’t get the whole subject in focus at once.