Zebra Longwing

[icassell]

At the Phoenix Botanical Garden

 

[Bifurcator]

Ooo, that would be nice to see some detail in.

 

[Overread]

I like the composition - but I wonder.
I assume this was with the canon 100mm macro and the 30D - but as for settings what did you use for apature, ISO and shutter speed?

 

[icassell]

Yep, right combination.

f6.3 @ 1/100 sec hand-held
ISO 125

Built-in flash fill -2EV (just got my 430EX this week )

 

[Overread]

hmm your aperture is way too low for macro to work well - you really want something greater than f8 and many here seem to use f13 as a good place to set the aperture for macro insects.
This will give you a greater depth of field thus letting you get more of the insect in focus - and should be doable with the 100macro handheld - boost your ISO up to something like 400 or even 800 to keep the shutter speed up.

 

[icassell]

Thanks for the tip. Yes, I'm slowly learning. I'm trying to avoid upping the ISO too much ... maybe I just need to boost my fill-light a little to be able to keep my shutter speed up (does anyone want to donate a ring-light to my favorite charity? )?