Sunday, April 19, 2020

Progress (?) on Capturing Insects in Flight

I am still perservering with capturing the many hovering insects in the garden at the moment. The Bee flies are the easiest to photograph as they are inquisitive and will come progressively closer. These are taken at 1/1000th second for the first three images 1/4000th for the next four with the last one at 1/250th; all with flash (separate flash gun on camera). The shutterspeed is not making that difference - more the angle at which the wings are caught as they are relatively slower as they rotate past the midpoint and at the extreme points of the figure of eight.

1 comment:

Ian said...

Good pictures Ann. I see from the EXIF you are using the X-T2, do you use auto focus or manual focus then shoot when the insect is in focus? Thanks, Ian