Butterfly Macro

[Kathryn002]

I took this picture at the Butterfly Farm near Edinburgh, with a point-and-shoot Pentax Optio camera.
Unfortunately I don't have that camera now (it broke and they were unable to fix it) and I really liked it. :cryin: Hopefully I'll get another Pentax soon.

Any coments, cunstructive crit, suggestions etc is greatly appreciated. I can't change the aperture settings on my camera by the way.
Also, what could I do to take better macro shots in the future? (Though there's not many settings on my camera I can change unfortunately).

Here we are:


Thanks everyone!

[SmartWombat]

That is very nice !
More depth of field than I'm used to seeing in macros, but the short focal length of the P&S camera has something to do with that, I think.
Did you use flash, or was it sitting in the light for you?
It doesn't look like on-camera flash because it's up and to the right of the lens.

The only thing here I think is to watch the background.
The clutter of what look like shelves going off to the distance on the right distracts me a bit.

[AgingEyes]

Really a lot of depth of field. But I think you could do better without the background showing as is.

[gahspidy]

I agree with the other comments, great dof. I am always impressed with the macro modes on alot of the point and shoot. The bg is the only thing hurting this a bit, but just a bit. A solid color or very blurred bg would be better.

[Kathryn002]

Thanks everyone. I will try and fix the background.

No, I'm pretty sure I didn't use the flash on this one. Mainly because I was so close to it, I didn't want to damage its eyes or something with the flash.

[GB1]

It's a great shot of a scary subject. Yikes! I don't think I'd sleep in the same room as that critter, but I guess being 200x its size helps. The flash or whatever created a bit of a dropoff situation. I think it would look more realistic if it were more-evenly lighted. With macro, you really need a small aperture and therefore a slow SS. This usually means a tripod too. Kind of a dilemma because tripods slow you down and limit your flexibility, making it difficult to get shots like this......

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[Kathryn002]

Yeah, he was standing on a ledge where I had to space to put my tripod, so I had to just rest the camera sideways beside him. The camera automatically sets the aperture, I have no control over that.
Thank you.

[Greg McCary]

Very surreal, nice capture.