liewwk Nature Photography Blog
I love to capture this beetle but too bad this beetle is skittish/shy .. and not easy to get close so have a closer shot .. so most of the shots I use SIGMA150 instead my MP-E65
1. the green one .. and most difficult to get close
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animation make this beetle look scary
As we know anything >1:1 macro, we have very limit DOF … I had it share before … what we DOF have while we shooting macro e.g. at crop body, F16 at 1:1 .. the dof we have is just ~1mm … so how we have more DOF ?
1. angle is important , if we want the main objects “focus”
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at certain angle, we have not possible to have both object focus .. e.g. choose one , shoot small to crop , or using stacking method I use (discuss before HERE)
by using the stacking … we can get both beetle focus as below
or discuss http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=922
of if we do not want to do much on post process… choose the best angle to have both object focus e.g.
more beetle collection click HERE