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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 822658" data-attributes="member: 50197">Managed to get a better shot, IMO, of this guy today. I would have liked to have done a focus stack on this, but it was an awkward position making it extremely difficult to take a series. I thought about getting my tripod from the house and try and put it in position, which would have destroyed some of the plants, but he jumped off the leaf while I was thinking about it. Still, I feel lucky getting this shot. I feel it suffers, somewhat, by the narrow DOF, but the composition and look on the frog's face make it a decent image. Yes, I thought about a smaller aperture, but I was already at F19, so another stop or two wouldn't have made much difference. I also try to avoid apertures over F22, coupled with the fact that I was using a stack of extension tubes, and already had my flash set to 1/2 power, so I didn't have much left to increase aperture, outside of raising the ISO, which I normally don't do for macro. It's all academic, as by the time I would have made the changes to the flash and ISO, he would have been gone anyway.[ATTACH=full]408650[/ATTACH]Beauty and the beast.[ATTACH=full]408655[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 822658, member: 50197"] Managed to get a better shot, IMO, of this guy today. I would have liked to have done a focus stack on this, but it was an awkward position making it extremely difficult to take a series. I thought about getting my tripod from the house and try and put it in position, which would have destroyed some of the plants, but he jumped off the leaf while I was thinking about it. Still, I feel lucky getting this shot. I feel it suffers, somewhat, by the narrow DOF, but the composition and look on the frog's face make it a decent image. Yes, I thought about a smaller aperture, but I was already at F19, so another stop or two wouldn't have made much difference. I also try to avoid apertures over F22, coupled with the fact that I was using a stack of extension tubes, and already had my flash set to 1/2 power, so I didn't have much left to increase aperture, outside of raising the ISO, which I normally don't do for macro. It's all academic, as by the time I would have made the changes to the flash and ISO, he would have been gone anyway. [ATTACH type="full" alt="_DSC7248-SharpenAI-Focus.jpg"]408650[/ATTACH] Beauty and the beast. [ATTACH type="full" alt="_DSC7256-SharpenAI-Motion.jpg"]408655[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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