p.1 #1 · A couple of hoppers, a snake and a centipede
Two weeks ago went out to the Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ. Had a good time there went mostly to check out the Amphibian Exhibit since it was to hot outside to be taking pictures. These where the best of the bunch and thought I share them with you. The exhibit had very poor lightning as well, but the nifty fifty really worked well. C & C always welcome.
p.1 #2 · A couple of hoppers, a snake and a centipede
Assuming you had to shoot through glass and the low light you got good results! You were a little limited with the reach of the 50mm but they look good. Try to get more of an angle with looking toward the eye and always make the eye the sharp part of focus. Your last shot does not offer too much interest from the selection of focus you picked.
Keep shooting, an inexpensive TC could even work next time to get more reach!
p.1 #3 · A couple of hoppers, a snake and a centipede
I'd say that Karl has offered up some good advice and I agree that the last shot really doesn't offer much up. Certainly the part of the animals which is in focus has some nice colours, but I still want to see more of the insect - mainly the head and eyes. With what you've got, I would crop out a lot of the out of focus and 'no data' area of the shot.
I'd say that the snake is the strongest shot here.
Your shutter speeds seem a little low too... try and get them at least to 1/50th for a 50mm lens... The shots suffer a bit from this, take the ISO up to 1600!
p.1 #5 · A couple of hoppers, a snake and a centipede
Karl Witt wrote:
Assuming you had to shoot through glass and the low light you got good results! You were a little limited with the reach of the 50mm but they look good. Try to get more of an angle with looking toward the eye and always make the eye the sharp part of focus. Your last shot does not offer too much interest from the selection of focus you picked.
Keep shooting, an inexpensive TC could even work next time to get more reach!
Take care
Karl
Thanks Karl
Yes I did have to shoot through glass and the light was very low. Yeah I was pretty limited with the 50mm.
Thanks for the tip on making the eye the sharp part of the focus, as well as taking it the shot at a angle.
As for the centipede I posted the wrong.... I will upload the one I actually wanted to share.
p.1 #6 · A couple of hoppers, a snake and a centipede
Josh S wrote:
I'd say that Karl has offered up some good advice and I agree that the last shot really doesn't offer much up. Certainly the part of the animals which is in focus has some nice colours, but I still want to see more of the insect - mainly the head and eyes. With what you've got, I would crop out a lot of the out of focus and 'no data' area of the shot.
I'd say that the snake is the strongest shot here.
Your shutter speeds seem a little low too... try and get them at least to 1/50th for a 50mm lens... The shots suffer a bit from this, take the ISO up to 1600!
Thank you for the comment on the snake being the strongest shot. I really liked that one out of the bunch.
Also thank you for the tips as well, I will make sure to check out my shutter speeds next time when shooting in these conditions. N I will try and bump up the ISO as well.
Thanks Josh
-Phil
Josh S wrote:
Or, shoot in Av mode instead of Tv mode... most of the time anyways.
I think in most of the pictures I actually did shoot in Av Mode. I think that the Toad was shot in Tv mode.
I will upload the one I actually wanted to share.
. I had some really nice ones but there was smudges all over the glass that I couldn't keep them.