Eye for a fly

[Zeeke]

I know its not very good... but i picked up my 90mm tamron macro today at 5pm... ive been severely crook the last 4 days from a spider bite.. so.. getting around is great... also got my sb800 last night and Dr6 right angle viewer (nifty toys) but i wanted to play with the macro!! so crawled out to the kitchen with the macro and 800 attached and found a fly sitting on the edge of the bench.. so quickly grabbed the shot.. 1st photo from the lense from me.. i can see some big small things in the future... i think

Comments welcome

Tim

[christiand]

Hi Tim,

I thinks this is a very good start.
I'd love to see more photos done with this lens.
What was the distance between the front of the lens and the fly ?

Cheers,
Christian

[Muzza22au]

Nice first shot!!!

What was the lense? A 90mm Tamron "Hmmmm" may have to look at one of them aswell...

[birddog114]

Christian
The Tamron 90 is too short for my liking, I have it + Tamron 180, the Nikkor 60, 105 and 200,

I mostly use the Nikkor 200mm, next one is the Tamron 180 and Nikkor 105, and the 200mm can be substituted as the medium tele too.

Other than the above, I had few tries with the Sig. 105, 150 and 180. Preferred the igma 150/2.8.

[christiand]

Thanks Birddog,

I am sort of leaning towards the AF 200MM F4D IF-ED MICRO LENS
or the AF Zoom-Micro Nikkor 70-180mm f/4.5-5.6D ED.
I'm undecided and also not in a hurry.
I also have one concern and that is that the larger the focal length
of a lens gets, the shallower the DOF becomes; I guess.
However I don't know if this also applies to macro lenses.

Cheers,
CD

[Zeeke]

i was probably about 15-20cm from it for the shot... im sure in the future ill add a 180mm tamron to my kit.. but for now.. the 90 is good enuf.. and a major step up from Dug's 55mm Micro Nikkor lense which he loaned me, spose now i can give it back

Tim

[Zeeke]

Not the greatest either.. shot handheld outside my folks have daisy's growing everywhere and after the last few days rain all the flowers are dieing and being eaten by beatles.. these spiders are sitting on the flowers trying to grab the beatles but the beatles are way to big for them..

Tim

[Muzza22au]

Looks pretty good to me! What size of spider is it?

[Zeeke]

Sort? wouldnt know... Size? about.. roughly the size of a grain of rice...

pretty colours in it.. used the sb800 with diffuser ontop which brought the colours out even more

Tim

[birddog114]

Tim,
So what? no more fish? now playing with fly and spider.
You have done well mate! great pic btw.
Thanks for sharing and keep 'em coming.

[Muzza22au]

Sort? wouldnt know... Size? about.. roughly the size of a grain of rice...

pretty colours in it.. used the sb800 with diffuser ontop which brought the colours out even more

Tim

Well then I would say seeing as though it is as big as a"Grain of Rice" , that it is an excellent shot!!!

Cheers

Scott

[Zeeke]

you'll get your fish pictures gonna line myself up as a decky on a game boat or 2 for some marlin photos.. (wouldnt mind catching a couple too) but a few jumping fotos will do me..

you can blame Dug on these forums for all of this.. 4 1/2 months ago.. i had never picked up a slr camera in my life.. let alone owned one.. now ive got all these fancy gadgets that do this and that... going to pull the macro out soon and do some saltwater fly photos.. (flyfishing for trout is so 90's)

Tim
p.s. Cheers for the comments

[blacknstormy]

Great photos - don't you just love insects? Oh, that's right, that's just me LOL
The spider is a Lynx spider of the family Oxyopidae, and Genus Oxyopes (recognised by the erect spines on the legs). Sorry, not sure of the species. They are specialised to live on vegetation, and bind leaves like a tent to protect their egg sacs. They feed on various insects, but also feed on the eggs of various insects. That's your nature lesson for the day
Rel