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[Bela N]

Fantastic thread!! Many great shots. Congratulations to all.

Just for fun, I have elected myself Judge & jury, and have decided to pic what I feel are the best 4 pics so far. I have also decided to award best photographer to Aralis [your economy suck but you have great photographers ]

First Place:

Second Place:

Third Place:

Fourth Place:

Are these good choices or do you disagree?

 

[Allmost]

a full day of getting stung and this is the pic that came out okay ... compared to others I took.

macro+cropping seems to be easier than using tubes and macro ... low DOF even at F16.

 

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[magdelan]

When taking these "on the fly" shots (pun intended), do you only auto focus or do you have time to manual focus? What lens were those taken with?

 

[Misled]

A little of both. The first one was with a 300 f4 and a 1.4 tele. It was shot in manual because of it's size and the distance I was from it. The other two were with the 105 macro and it's auto mode is kinda slash manual, so I let the camera start and fine tune it in manual.

 

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[SushiGirl]

It stole my hair!!! :lmao:
What is that?

 

[Misled]

I have no idea. I cropped it a bit. It was about 3/16ths of an inch. There is something inside. Looks like baby spiders. How'd it get your hair???? :lol:

 

[SushiGirl]

Must have found all the white ones I keep trying to get rid of LOL. Looks like there are legs on the top left too, ewww!

 

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[SushiGirl]

Hummingbird moth, great find! We have them here but I've never seen one.

 

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[SushiGirl]

An oldie from me with my old camera.

 

[SushiGirl]

Another oldie. I haven't been outside much this summer, much less with a camera.

 

[Wolverine]

That's a beautiful picture.

 

[SushiGirl]

Thank you! I stood on a chair against the fence for 30 minutes shooting that little guy. I miss my old Nikon CoolPix 995 swivel body. That thing had awesome macro skills!

This was with the Canon 30D.

 

[Wolverine]

Thank you! I stood on a chair against the fence for 30 minutes shooting that little guy. I miss my old Nikon CoolPix 995 swivel body. That thing had awesome macro skills!

I've got that same camera (still have it, so I don't have to miss it).

 

[SushiGirl]

I still have mine too, but it won't focus anymore. I dropped it any number of times over the years, the last time I caught it by the strap just as it tapped the carpet & that was it.