Hi Mark -
There's full technical data in my reply to Bill Sawyer.
I shot these at ISO 400, which helps even up the background lighting (the
insect itself it lit largely by the flash - note the dual highlights in the
dragonflies' eyes to get an idea of how the lighting parses out. The bottom
highlight is the flash, the top is the sun.)
In some respects, digital is harder than film for this kind of shooting. I
used to merrily shoot away with ISO 100 film hand holding the camera at
1/250th, and got seemingly sharp images. But the greater acutance of digital
really brings motion blur to the fore - even shooting at 1/350 it's hard to
get a crisp shot with the *ist-D handheld. So I use a monopod.
As noted, I used the A*200. I'm still using this bracket that I put together
a few years ago -
http://www.markcassino.com/essays/flash_brackets.htm
Though the Pz-1p has given way to the *ist-D and the Sunpack flash has been
replaced with the AF360FGZ.
The QR plate for the monopod goes into the camera's tripod socket.
HTH -
MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: GESO - Three Bugs
"Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here's a mini gallery with three bug shots from the last few days:
http://www.markcassino.com/temp/peso/GESO_June.htm
Great stuff as usual. What ISO were these shot at?
After the (relative) success at my casual attempts at insect photography
last week I'm starting to get interested in pursuing this kind of thing
a little bit more...
--
Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com
