Lunch Time

[molucca]

A damselfly flew off and captured a bug flying in the air, and than sat for lunch. Rich

[molucca]

A damselfly flew off and captured a bug flying in the air, and than sat for lunch. Rich

[molucca]

Bugs can do many tricks like scratching their eyes with their feet. Rich

[molucca]

A photo using a manual aperature and time setting. and a conversion lense. I think I may have been having a the foreground overexposed at times due the meter taking an average setting. I have been trying spider webs, and this seemed to help. Rich

[molucca]

I still have problems maintaining focus on windy days, and usually delete quite a few images. But, then again, the dragonflys appear more on windy days. Rich

[OklaEd]

You're getting good at this Rich! ... what camera/settings do you use?

[molucca]

This is an Olympus E10 with the macro conversion lense. It has an additional set up for using the conversion lense vs the standard macro setting. This was set to manual F8 & 125th of a second. I tried F11, but don't have an external flash to provide proper lighting. It was set to auto focus, however, I think manual would have worked just as well. I still have a limited depth of field. The EV reads about -.3. I found that in auto mode I would get the foreground blown out and have good exposure in the background. I have been watching the images to see what has been happening, and switching from auto to manual. You would have to work with your own camera to establish a set of parameters. F8 works for what I have been doing. Rich