Couple of garden bugs with my new Camera
IPClark
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Hi All, Not been around the macro section much for a while. Very little time for photography and a bugless winter 
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Anyway, I'm now the proud new owner of an EOS 7D
First chance for a few shots. Two to be exact and one crop. Must admit, I'm finding macro quite tough with the new camera, not sure if it's the larger resolution sensor but it seems that the very slightest deviation from the focus point and I'm OOF. I thought the camera might be back-focusing (so I've got Mr Iddon on the case reviewing some of my shots). I think it's probably more likely my noobness with the new camera
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Anyway, a Spider and a Ladybird... the first bugs I've found so far. These are straight out of the camera. I used on board flash on these, I'll switch back to my diffused speedlite of course. Images shot RAW > Converted to JPEG. No sharpening done. Only modification was to introduce a touch of exposure and levels in the ladybird shot.
Opinions on the shots would be appreciated. Mainly from a do you think the camera is fine. Focus in these is naturally on the eyes. Taken using my Sigma 105 (planning on upgrading to a Canon 100mm (possibly L) later this year.)
A Crop of the above.
.Anyway, I'm now the proud new owner of an EOS 7D
First chance for a few shots. Two to be exact and one crop. Must admit, I'm finding macro quite tough with the new camera, not sure if it's the larger resolution sensor but it seems that the very slightest deviation from the focus point and I'm OOF. I thought the camera might be back-focusing (so I've got Mr Iddon on the case reviewing some of my shots). I think it's probably more likely my noobness with the new camera
.Anyway, a Spider and a Ladybird... the first bugs I've found so far. These are straight out of the camera. I used on board flash on these, I'll switch back to my diffused speedlite of course. Images shot RAW > Converted to JPEG. No sharpening done. Only modification was to introduce a touch of exposure and levels in the ladybird shot.
Opinions on the shots would be appreciated. Mainly from a do you think the camera is fine
. Focus in these is naturally on the eyes. Taken using my Sigma 105 (planning on upgrading to a Canon 100mm (possibly L) later this year.)A Crop of the above.
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should be manual focusing anyhow
more likely just out of practise, i find takes a few trips to get back into macro mode! might take me a bit longer after my birding trips!
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I'll be putting my speedlite back on and diffusing again. I just used the on board flash for the time being on these. You're right, probably just well out of practice
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One of the things I noticed with the 7D is that I can show the actual point where the focus was on the review image in camera. I've set it to Spot AF for my macros and notice that quite often the focus point has risen a little above where I'd placed it. Naturally this being down to hand held so a lot more practicing needed methinks.
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