Insect Macros

Took these this evening in good sunlight. I haven't touched them at all. I was wondering which angle was considered the most attractive, given the brightness of the flower and leaf.

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Thanks

Well for me its the 2nd one J. They all look marvelous tho.

Glad to see your having more luck finding bugs than me! Ive resorted to robins and blackbirds LOL

Nice photos, the St John's-wort seems to attract a lot of bees and hover-flies.

Thanks Dave,

I didn't know that was what the plant was called.

No.2 does it for me

They do seem very bright though, maybe adjust the brightness slightly

Paul

Well these are much better than my first attempts at macro but in my defense I was using film and limiting my shots

The second is the best of the bunch for me too Jeanette, however they would all benefit from being a little bit sharper, forget worrying about angles for a while and concentrate on your focusing technique, macro is one of the most dificult subjects to master, working at such close quarters makes depth of field extremely shallow so focusing has to be critical, add to that the problems with magnified camera shake and macro becomes evben more difficult.
Watch your apertures, keep them as small as possible in an attempt to get that bit extra DoF but watch your shutter speed too, you can also try flash, even if it is bright and sunny flash will eliminate the problem of maintaining a high shutter speed but you will have to do a bit of experimenting to get the exposure right.
You have the whole English summer in front of you (all four days of it) so you have no excuse not to be a macro guru by the end of the year

Thanks for that I will try and remember it when I am macroing!