Red Admiral

[brendancullen]

September 28, 2011 at 9:26 pm

My respect & admiration for specialist macro photographers increased 100 fold today. I managed to aquire a loan of the Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro (non IS version).
I am aware of the decreasing DOF the longer the lens and the closer the subject – but trying to shoot a moving insect, on a moving flower/leaf – with a DOF of approx 0:01mm is really some challenge. It took nearly 100 attempts to get this shot.

Red admiral. Taken at Kilmacurragh Arboretum on 28 Sept 2011.
Canon 7D & Canon 100mm Macro.
f/7.1, 1/125, ISO400. (DOF in this instant is 0:01mm) http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

click on image for 1200×800 version.

Comments welcome.

bren

[saber]

September 28, 2011 at 10:16 pm

hi brendan ,beautiful image, i find the blue in the background a small bit distracting .i would loved to have taken an image like this. regards saber

[miki g]

September 29, 2011 at 5:46 am

Well done Brendan.
Lovely colours & nice detail. The composition is also spot on. I also find the blue a bit distracting, but strangely I find that, if the diagonal brighter bit of background on the RHS was cropped out, the blue bit is much less noticable.

[jodal1975]

September 29, 2011 at 8:05 am

Beautiful colours. For a 1st attempt it’s very impressive.I’ve never done any
Macro myself but I do know it’s very, very difficult , so well done

[Mikka]

October 2, 2011 at 7:14 am

Well done, that is a lovely image, focus is spot on the eye and the complete subject is in the frame. I find that Butterflies are one of the most difficult macro subjects and you have done well here to capture the image as shown……………./Mikka