Fly

[Grumpy John]

Some close ups of some flies visiting the flowers on our mint bush.
Still coming to terms with macro "in the wild". Probably should have used spot metering here instead of evaluative as most of the images came out on the dark side.
I feel that the camera may need an AF microadjustment as the focus seems a bit "off".

There was minimal PP done on these images:
In ACR:
Lens correction
I used the Auto option to get the exposure somewhere close and then played around with the sliders to fine tune the image.
A bit of Dehaze and Clarity were also used.

In CC2020
Nik Dfine 2 was used to clean up any noise.

No sharpening was done on any image.

Only the first image has been cropped.

Any thoughts, comments, advice will be most welcome.

#1


#2 Screenshot from DPP 4 to show the focus point.


EXIF data for image #1
Camera Model Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv(Shutter Speed) 1/2000
Av(Aperture Value) 3.5
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 1250
Lens Tokina AT-X PRO D 100mm F2.8 Macro
Focal Length 100.0mm
AF Mode AI Servo AF
Drive Mode High-speed continuous shooting


#3


#4 Screenshot from DPP 4 to show the focus point.


EXIF data for image #3
Camera Model Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv(Shutter Speed) 1/2000
Av(Aperture Value) 3.5
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 1250
Lens Tokina AT-X PRO D 100mm F2.8 Macro
AF Mode AI Servo AF
Drive Mode High-speed continuous shooting

#5


#6 Screenshot from DPP 4 to show the focus point. Missed him by a mile.


EXIF data for image #5.
Camera Model Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv(Shutter Speed) 1/3200
Av(Aperture Value) 3.5
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 1250
Lens Tokina AT-X PRO D 100mm F2.8 Macro
AF Mode AI Servo AF
Drive Mode High-speed continuous shooting

[Isac]

Nice work John. Perhaps doing a microadjustment will get it spot on. 100% for spot metering in these types of images.

[HansE]

That is not the proverbial blue arsed fly since it is bronze. It is however beautiful for such a maligned creature. We are better with it than without it. I was surprised at your large aperatureI think I may have gon e a couple of stops smaller and maybe not got as good a picture.

[kevinj]

Not to bad at all.I would use f10-f18 {my standard range} and use single point focus, but thats me.

[Grumpy John]

I copped a lot of flack for my f stop settings on the dandelion shot on another forum, so I opened up the aperture on these shots all the way. I was using Spot AF focusing on these, the focus point is the red square you see in the second shot.