Tag Archives: Macro It was a slow day along the Susquhanna River in Maryland on Saturday. The Eagles weren’t really flying much so I turned my attention to this grasshopper that was sitting on the fence. Nikon D300, hand held, Aperture Priority mode. F13 @ 1/160th second shutter speed and ISO 200. Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro...  Walter likes to sit at the top of the waterfall that empties into my Parent’s backyard pond. He sits up there for hours and then you’ll see him leap high into air and land in the butterfly bush that sits next to the top of the waterfall. Sometimes he gets himself lunch that way and...  A Monarch Butterfly attends to a flower in the Hershey Gardens Butterfly House on Sunday 6-19-2011. For more information on Monarch’s, visit this page.  I had a chance to try some more macro photography over at my Parent’s place today. My parents were being visited by some of our relatives from Long Island and they had brought a flower with them for my Grandmother as a way of remembering my Aunt who died of Cancer back in May. I...  I tried my hand at some macro photography today. I went over to my Parent’s house and spent some time photographing the various flowers around their pond and waterfall and got lucky with this Ladybug. We were just remarking the other day that its been a long time since any of us had seen a...  They say when you try something new in photography you only get good at it by making 10,000 mistakes first. Here is my mistake # 1. I’ve never tried to set anything up in a pseduo-studio setting before so I “built” a mini studio setup and mounted a suitable background on a wall, purchased a... |
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