I think my dog's paw needs lotion.

[Mutley]

:shrug:



Is this too blurry or what? I thought I had this macro thing down after the flower contest last year -- not so much anymore.

[alkaline9]

1. I think its good

I mean part of what I personally like about macro shots is that what is in focus has detail and most everything else is meant to be a fading background.

[Mutley]

3. Well, thank you.

:)

Maybe I'm just paranoid.

[F.Gordon]

2. That's damn good

And I'm no vet... but the paw looks fine. Unless you take 3-4-5 shots of the same thing at different focal points and then shuffle them all together like... it's near impossible to get an entire bug ass ;) photo in focus.

[Mutley]

4. Lol, bug ass photo.

:rolf:

That was a good pic of a dragonfly ass in that other thread BTW. I've been highly unsuccesful at taking pictures of flying bugs like that.

So, I'm being too critical, then? Thanks!

[F.Gordon]

5. Waaaaaay too critical

:hi:

[Ms. Toad]

6. Got several of them in focus here:

One big and a bunch a little guys:



and, in case ya can't see the little guys here's a closer view:



I didn't even notice the little guys when I was taking the shot - I was too busy chasing the grasshopper around the stem since he did not want to be shot in profile!

[F.Gordon]

7. Well smite me down

I've never been able to do that and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. When I go in close in bug ass mode I have a very narrow DOF. Doesn't matter what aperture I use. f/2.8... f/11 ... same DOF. I can get more in focus when I move the camera back.. it's just when I do the kind of snaps like those in my "What the hell is that" thread.

I didn't know that my film camera could over-ride the film code for ISO settings so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong with this too.
:dunce:

Before I cross off bug ass photography from my growing list of things I need to learn... can someone explain what I'm doing wrong.
:shrug:

[Ms. Toad]

8. I'm using the built in Macro in my camera

One of the reasons I picked my camera is because the built-in Macro is very good.

The DOF is pretty narrow (if you look at the background) and I wasn't terribly close to the grasshopper (I'd guess about 6" since he kept spiraling away from me), so the relative difference in distance between his nose and his *ss was very little. If I'd been really close to him (an inch or so) you would have seen a much more striking difference in focus.

[Mutley]

9. Awww! Now I'm feeling critical of myself again!

x(

































:P

[Ms. Toad]

10. Grasshoppers are pretty easy targets...

They are very lazy and don't do much more than spin around the stem unless you really aggravate them.

[Mutley]

11. Our bugs are pretty much MIA around here.

The only one I've seen lately is this guy:



But due to my extreme and irrational fear of spiders I was unwilling to get any closer to him.

[Ms. Toad]

12. The grasshopper was a Nebraska summer bug

I just pulled him out of my files. We don't have a lot around here, either.

[Mutley]

13. Oh, okay.

:D