Need a little help...
- Thread starter Coleonyx
- Start date
I don't have any recent pics, but here are a couple I took several months ago:
I got both of these hatchlings from Will Leary at Reptilicus Reptiles. One is from his amazing female jungle Naomi (I forget which male was the sire), and the other is from his pair called Adam and Eve. All three are outstanding animals, and there is already a waiting list for the Naomi and Eve offspring for next season. I don't know what males he plans to pair with them, but it really doesn't matter.
ryanm
I got both of these hatchlings from Will Leary at Reptilicus Reptiles. One is from his amazing female jungle Naomi (I forget which male was the sire), and the other is from his pair called Adam and Eve. All three are outstanding animals, and there is already a waiting list for the Naomi and Eve offspring for next season. I don't know what males he plans to pair with them, but it really doesn't matter.
ryanm
Brandon Parry
New member
lighting is most likely your issue what f stop are you shooting at?
Good choice!Coleonyx__Corral said:
You're at too high an f-stop, try stopping down to F8 or f11. The blurring you are getting is called "depth of field", which means the amount of space that is in focus. At f2.8 and only a few millimeters away from the subject, your depth of field will literally only be a few centimeters deep. The farther you are from the subject and the smaller the aperature (higher number f-stops), the longer your depth of field. The catch is, a smaller aperature means you need more light, so you'll have to take longer exposures or have plenty of light available.
Here are examples:
Small depth of field (only the eyes are really in tight focus)
Large depth of field (whole scene is pretty sharp)
Super small depth of field (about 1-2 millimeters, smaller than the radius of the gecko's eyeball)
In that last pic, I couldn't even keep the entire eyeball in focus at the same time. That's because I was at the widest aperature available and I had the lens right up on the gecko. So I know you want to take macros, but try moving back a bit and making the room brighter, and experiment with moving closer and using wider aperatures to figure it out, and you'll get it before long.
ryanm