So I just received a message on Flickr from someone who tells me he shoots with a D500 and Sigma 105mm, and then asks me how I get such awesome macro results...
(Actually, he asked how I got "such a high resolution", but I am paraphrasing to "awesome results" here, bear with me!)
Wondering if I should tell him:
a) It's not me, it's you!
b) It's not you, it's me!
c) It's the camera of course!
d) Some more reasonable/boring answer asking about his flash setup and diffusion and discussing technique and so on...
Thoughts?
... In other news, starting last weekend, Montreal was "invaded" by a never-seen-before quantity of Painted Lady butterflies! A rather fun invasion! According to news reports (
one and
two, in French), unusual contrary winds forced them to land here, whereas they normally fly way above us during their annual migration.
I find photographing butterflies very challenging. They are very large subjects compared to what I usually shoot, and when you get really close their face is just awkward, IMHO. So I tried various lenses and compositions.
DA35 fairly close in, with a butterfly on the ground:
Sigma 17-70mm Contemporary, with butterflies on flowers, trying to get more than one in each composition:
Same lens, but even wider, as if from the PoV of a butterfly on another flower:
And finally something close to my usual macro style, though even with this one this is less magnification than I am used to dealing with. It was very hard to get this shot as the butterflies were super active on the mint flowers, but I am quite happy with the resulting shot: