A Small Sunbather
June 21st, 2006 by Benji Mast
I was sweeping at my house today when I found my subject for today’s post. I placed the subject, in this case the dead insect, on a white sheet of paper under a window. I used a 70-210 mm 4.0 Macro to shoot with. I set the camera for a max. 4.0 aperature to hide sensor dust and set the camera to over-expose to compensate for the white background.
Hmm, 70-210 macro? Don’t recognize it. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough but what equipment you shoot with? Hopefully not Canon.
Duh on me!! Didn’t really read your title. So you do shoot Canon. What additional accessories do you have?
The lens was actually borrowed from a friend. Two clarifications, it was a pretty old lens, he got his camera about fifteen years ago and the lens soon after. Also I suppose it wasn\\\’t a macro lens by title, it only had a macro switch on it.
Thishttp://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00FjDw is the only thing I could find about it on the web.
As far as other accessories go, I have a 58 mm polarizer, a monopod, and a small bendy tripod.
My equipment also includes a junky 70-210 2.8 Vivitar, the kit lens an 18-55 3.5-5.6, and the 50mm 1.8. And my camera is the DRebel XT
With an equipment list so small my wish list is a couple of pages long, but I hope to whittle it down in the next few weeks.
with that 50mm macro, you should be covered for macro shots. If you can, upgrade either the kit lens or get a good telephoto. There definetely is a difference in build and lens quality when you purchase a better non-kit lens. Not to mention the price difference…..!
the 50 mm isn’t a macro but yeah other wise.