Back Ache - _TNY_9948
My wife have been having some back problems lately so today we took the car for a trip about 60 km north to the town of Åkerberga to see someone about it.
Everything seem to have worked out for her, but while she was getting adjusted, I spent some time at the Näsuddens Nature Reserve, trying to entice dragonflies to stay still enough for me to get some photos with the MP-E65mm lens. Now the maximum (not minimum!) focusing distance of this lens is 101 mm / 4" which means I have to get real close to them - any further away and they are out of focus.
And let me tell you, if the MFD had been just 105 mm or so, I would have gotten so many more shots - they kept flying off just about every time right before I got them in focus. But only just - there were still a couple of them that stayed put enough for me to take their portrait. Like this male common darter (Sympetrum striolatum) which is actually shot at 1.4:1 so even closer than those 101 mm.
This particular one had landed on an old wooden table with attached benches so I was able to move closer while sitting down which was a nice change.
Back Ache - _TNY_9948
My wife have been having some back problems lately so today we took the car for a trip about 60 km north to the town of Åkerberga to see someone about it.
Everything seem to have worked out for her, but while she was getting adjusted, I spent some time at the Näsuddens Nature Reserve, trying to entice dragonflies to stay still enough for me to get some photos with the MP-E65mm lens. Now the maximum (not minimum!) focusing distance of this lens is 101 mm / 4" which means I have to get real close to them - any further away and they are out of focus.
And let me tell you, if the MFD had been just 105 mm or so, I would have gotten so many more shots - they kept flying off just about every time right before I got them in focus. But only just - there were still a couple of them that stayed put enough for me to take their portrait. Like this male common darter (Sympetrum striolatum) which is actually shot at 1.4:1 so even closer than those 101 mm.
This particular one had landed on an old wooden table with attached benches so I was able to move closer while sitting down which was a nice change.