A crane fly emerging from its pupa in an old tree stump in our back yard. My wife saw some of these a few evenings ago and seems to have managed to identify them. Today she spotted one emerging while there was still enough light to get a photo. I had to turn up the ISO to 6400 and also set -1 exposure compensation as the camera was blowing out the highlights a bit. That got me all the way to 1/180 at f/8.
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1198/#peso Pentax K5ii, FA 100mm f/2.8 macro I'd have got much better results with a tripod but I wasn't about to hang around setting one up with mosquitoes biting. I snapped a whole lot of frames handheld while hoping to get at least one in reasonable focus, while contorting myself to try and get the plane of focus along the insect's body (as much as the foreground would allow). Cheers, Dave -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
