I love seeing detail like this in natural subjects and using my telephoto lens instead of a macro lens allowed me enough depth of field to get almost everything sharp. Technically this is already a macro photograph because the subjects (butterfly, flowers and even the two ants) are larger than life size.īut I had enough pixels for a larger crop and still be able to achieve reasonably good image quality so you know me, I had to do it. A beautiful butterfly on an attractive and interesting flower in good light and I had my telephoto lens at hand – how could I resist? Instead of messing around with specialized equipment I just stuck my telephoto lens out my pickup window and fired away. Two days ago this Two-tailed Swallowtail caught my attention. On recent birding trips to the mountains I’ve been watching a clump of Showy Milkweed for the variety of insects it attracts, including bees, ants and butterflies. I can and do use my telephoto lens to shoot macro.ġ/3200, f/9, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender Often that means photographing something small to very small but I’ll be damned if I’ll mount a macro lens to my camera and sacrifice opportunities with birds and wildlife in order to get macro photographs.Īnd I don’t have to. But given the means and the opportunity I’ll photograph insects, spiders, flowers, worms, minerals and just about anything else natural. Macro photography: photography producing photographs of small items larger than life size.īy preference I’m primarily a bird photographer with a ‘minor’ in wildlife photography.
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