Recent content by Clovishound

What settings are you using? If you have your aperture very small, say F22 or F32, it will allow very little light through to the sensor. Try setting your camera to M and set it to F8 and 1/500 sec with an ISO of 100 and try a test shot in bright sunlight.

When I had a squirrel, I mean bird, feeder in my back yard I had a lot of carolina wrens visiting. I see them with some regularity when out in the field shooting.

The preview isn't that much different, but, you don't have to go through putting the camera in LV. Not sure about some of the other models, but my D3400 has a long delay between pressing the shutter button and having the shutter actually release. It sounds like the mirror goes back down, and...

The thistles are just starting to open. I didn't plant these, a couple just came up last year, in the middle of the wildflowers and so, didn't get mowed down. I've got a bumper crop of them this year. I swear they attracted more insects than any other species I had growing. This wasp was...

This is where the mirrorless cameras really shine IMO. You get a nice preview of the exposure in the viewfinder. For example, I know that with white birds in sunlight I'm going to have to give it anywhere between 1.0 - 2.5 stops of underexposure to avoid blowing out the highlights in the birds...

If you are stacking them into an HDR, you will need to "auto-align" them regardless of how much they appear to the eye to be properly lined up. It is a very easy, one step, process in Photoshop. If you are using Lightroom to merge them, there is a box for "auto-align" at the top of the pop up...

Went back out after posting this, and the micrathena had him all trussed up while the digestive juices were working. She was in a different position and I was able to get this shot by laying on the wet ground. The things we suffer for out art. :rolleyes:

Fly having a bad day. I would have liked to get a top down shot, but the spider was on the bottom of the web, upside down. No way I could have gotten a shot from another angle. I'm surprised by how often I'm able to get a bug eating bug image.

"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

Are you stacking them into an HDR?

Got this little guy just a little bit ago.

I would imagine the saying among Great Blues is something like: "What are the two best days of a nesting pairs life?" "The day your eggs hatch, and the day they leave the nest!"

I've had a lot of trouble throughout my life with motion sickness. Guess what I did for 20 years in the Air Force? I've had issues on planes, boats and automobiles. Never had an issue with macro work. Good thing, as that is my favorite genre of photography. Sorry to hear you have that issue...