The nice dark, graduated background is the back of my iMac. This lens is a very nice, gotta be said…
2.5 secs at f20, ISO 100 at 100mm
15 secs at f32, ISO 100 at 100mm
3.2 secs at f32, ISO 100 at 100mm
3.2 secs at f32, ISO 100 at 100mm
1/20 sec at f2.8, ISO 100 at 100mm
0.6 sec at f11, ISO 100 at 100mm
This is my first flash experiment with the mate’s 100mm macro. Not one ounce of originality, plus the model [later liberated to the back yard] probably wouldn’t thank me for the experience, but I’m actually pretty pleased. The earlier shot with the long exposure stood me in good stead for getting a feeling of what I could do with depth of field. This was at minimum focal distance though, plus as far as I could push the aperture:
1/60 sec at f22, ISO 100 at 100mm
I had the flash angled fully forward, and used the catchlight panel to try to bounce a modest amount of light down to the subject.
This was the best of about 5 shots I took handheld. I’ve seen some shots the mate who owns the lens has take of a fly’s eye, showing the compound lenses, which he does in conjunction with some extension tubes. It must have been an act of extreme patience, given that the depth of field must have been about a millimetre deep.
I went up to Leicester to watch the Tigers’ first home game of the season at the weekend. It was an enjoyable game but not as replete with photographic opportunities as my last home game earlier in the year. This was down to a pretty solid defensive performance by both sides, so there were no tries run in. Also, the late kickoff meant that I hit the limits of what my camera could do by the time the second half kicked off, when the light started to fade.
This picture of Geordan Murphy is probably the best of my results on the day:
1/500 sec at f5.6, ISO 400 at 400mm
I quite like this:
1/1000 sec at f5.6, ISO 400 at 400mm
The scrum half [Hall Charlton?], as the main subject, isn’t tack sharp, showing one of the disadvantages of using only the centre focus point, but it’s still quite a reasonable capture of the action.
By the time the floodlights came on, about the most I could squeeze out of my camera at 400mm was 1/160 second at ISO 1600 – nowhere near fast enough.