1st time for Macro, C&C please

[HeryHe]

Once in the morning, I took these photographs using my camera, Olympus E-620 + 70-300mm f/4-5.6. C&C are very welcome.

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no#2


no#3

 

[Frequency]

Very lovely butterflies

Regards

 

[HeryHe]

Very lovely butterflies

Regards

Many thanks for the compliment , frequency.
Is there anything that I have to improve based on the photographs that I posted on?

 

[Frequency]

Please wait till the butterflies land on some other flowers with more beautiful petals (personally i always have problem to get this colour properly exposed) and just click

All The Best

Regards

 

[HeryHe]

Please wait till the butterflies land on some other flowers with more beautiful petals (personally i always have problem to get this colour properly exposed) and just click

All The Best

Regards

It truly takes time to do macro photo shot. It's not only about the technique, but to be more patient is one of the points.. hehehe..
Many thanks for the input Frequency.
I'll do for the next shot.

 

[NateS]

These are really good, especially for a first time. Second one is top notch.

 

[JJYRQI]

Awesome! DOF, Colors and contrast between colors. I love butterfly macros like these, keep it up.

 

[HeryHe]

These are really good, especially for a first time. Second one is top notch.

Many thanks NateS, I do really need many improvements to do macro shot.
Do you have any input that I may know? like as the composition, lighting, etc.

Awesome! DOF, Colors and contrast between colors. I love butterfly macros like these, keep it up.

Many thanks JJYRQI .

 

[NateS]

These are really good, especially for a first time. Second one is top notch.

Many thanks NateS, I do really need many improvements to do macro shot.
Do you have any input that I may know? like as the composition, lighting, etc.

Your composition looks really good. On 1, I would have tried to not have it all in the center cutting from left to right in the frame.....but as we all know, with insects you don't always get time to compose exactly how you want. As seen in 2 and 3, I think you've got a very good eye for composition.

Your lighting looks very nice too...though two seems like the whites are a tad blown...(though this work monitor I use is crap)...do you shoot in RAW? If not, you might consider it since it will always let you recover some blown out areas or some lost details in shadows through post processing work.

Just keep shooting and you'll be surprised at how much your photos grow from your own learning (trial and error). If you have specific macro questions, feel free to PM me. I've only been doing heavy macro stuff for about 9 months myself, but I have learned quite a bit in that time.

 

[HeryHe]

These are really good, especially for a first time. Second one is top notch.

Many thanks NateS, I do really need many improvements to do macro shot.
Do you have any input that I may know? like as the composition, lighting, etc.

Your composition looks really good. On 1, I would have tried to not have it all in the center cutting from left to right in the frame.....but as we all know, with insects you don't always get time to compose exactly how you want. As seen in 2 and 3, I think you've got a very good eye for composition.

Your lighting looks very nice too...though two seems like the whites are a tad blown...(though this work monitor I use is crap)...do you shoot in RAW? If not, you might consider it since it will always let you recover some blown out areas or some lost details in shadows through post processing work.

Just keep shooting and you'll be surprised at how much your photos grow from your own learning (trial and error). If you have specific macro questions, feel free to PM me. I've only been doing heavy macro stuff for about 9 months myself, but I have learned quite a bit in that time.

Many thanks for the input,NateS.
I still have no experience shoot in RAW. All photographs I have are in Large Fine -JPEG format. I'd like to try in RAW file next. But for some reason that would waste more space of memory rather than JPEG format.
Sure Nate, I'd like to ask more about macro photography. I've been falling in love to this stuff.

 

[NateS]

Many thanks NateS, I do really need many improvements to do macro shot.
Do you have any input that I may know? like as the composition, lighting, etc.

Your composition looks really good. On 1, I would have tried to not have it all in the center cutting from left to right in the frame.....but as we all know, with insects you don't always get time to compose exactly how you want. As seen in 2 and 3, I think you've got a very good eye for composition.

Your lighting looks very nice too...though two seems like the whites are a tad blown...(though this work monitor I use is crap)...do you shoot in RAW? If not, you might consider it since it will always let you recover some blown out areas or some lost details in shadows through post processing work.

Just keep shooting and you'll be surprised at how much your photos grow from your own learning (trial and error). If you have specific macro questions, feel free to PM me. I've only been doing heavy macro stuff for about 9 months myself, but I have learned quite a bit in that time.

Many thanks for the input,NateS.
I still have no experience shoot in RAW. All photographs I have are in Large Fine -JPEG format. I'd like to try in RAW file next. But for some reason that would waste more space of memory rather than JPEG format.
Sure Nate, I'd like to ask more about macro photography. I've been falling in love to this stuff.

Memory space is cheap these days...you can get a TB drive for under 100 bucks now so taking up space via RAW shouldn't be a huge issue.

 

[bazooka]

The colors are striking, details are crisp. These are nice shots, it's tough to pick out anything wrong with them. On #1, it looks like a grass stem got in front of the flower branch.

Depending on how patient these BF's were, maybe you could have gotten a darker background on #2 for a greater contrast with the subject.

 

[HeryHe]

Memory space is cheap these days...you can get a TB drive for under 100 bucks now so taking up space via RAW shouldn't be a huge issue.

Oh I didn't know about this one. I'll look at this one at the cam store.

The colors are striking, details are crisp. These are nice shots, it's tough to pick out anything wrong with them. On #1, it looks like a grass stem got in front of the flower branch.

Depending on how patient these BF's were, maybe you could have gotten a darker background on #2 for a greater contrast with the subject.

Many thanks bazooka. I may say, I had spent more than 2 hours to follow these BFs, but It's truly fun.

 

[NateS]

Memory space is cheap these days...you can get a TB drive for under 100 bucks now so taking up space via RAW shouldn't be a huge issue.

Oh I didn't know about this one. I'll look at this one at the cam store.

TB drive for your computer. You aren't leaving pictures on the card after you transfer them to your hard drive are you? 1-2 8gb cards for your camera and a 1TB drive for your comp should hold you over for a pretty long time.