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Canon 100mm IS USM L Macro Photos
MARKOE PHOTOE:
--- Quote from: Kernuak on August 16, 2012, 04:52:14 PM ---Avoiding your shadow on any insect is the key, but even more so with dragonflies. Also, for any animal, it's important to know their behaviour and sometimes physiology. For example, dragonflies tend to have better eyesight forward and above and it's pretty poor from below. This is due to an adaptation based on their hunting technique. Another trick that some advocate, is to slowly moving forward while waving from side to side, it is supposed to mimic a bush waving in the wind.
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Great information Kernuak, thanks, ... but I was getting a visual of that approach and have seen many a man/woman leaving the local tavern with the same approach, 'moving forward while waving side to side', and never thought that were chasing dragonflies. HA!
Briand:
I took these spider images handheld with Canon 5DIII, 100mm f2.8L IS and 580EXII speedlite with ring flash adapter.
I posted more macro spider images on flickr.http://www.flickr.com/photos/64566911@N05/sets/72157631190703782/
Kernuak:
--- Quote from: MARKOE PHOTOE on August 16, 2012, 05:56:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Kernuak on August 16, 2012, 04:52:14 PM ---Avoiding your shadow on any insect is the key, but even more so with dragonflies. Also, for any animal, it's important to know their behaviour and sometimes physiology. For example, dragonflies tend to have better eyesight forward and above and it's pretty poor from below. This is due to an adaptation based on their hunting technique. Another trick that some advocate, is to slowly moving forward while waving from side to side, it is supposed to mimic a bush waving in the wind.
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Great information Kernuak, thanks, ... but I was getting a visual of that approach and have seen many a man/woman leaving the local tavern with the same approach, 'moving forward while waving side to side', and never thought that were chasing dragonflies. HA!
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Perhaps you should watch more closely next time, to see if they get close to anything, even if they aren't trying to :P.
arioch82:
Briand what kind of apertures have you used on those spiders? the exif on flickr are missing...
Briand:
When I batched in photoshop with watermark it must of stripped out the exif.
I shot these handheld at f/7, 1/125s, 200 ISO and a few at 400 ISO.
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