{"id":1002337,"date":"2009-05-17T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T22:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002337"},"modified":"2009-06-28T18:50:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T23:50:01","slug":"fun-with-a-macro-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/nature\/bugs\/2009\/05\/17\/fun-with-a-macro-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with a Macro Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably some sort of blow fly:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bottlefly.jpg\" alt=\"bottlefly\" title=\"bottlefly\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1002338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bottlefly.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bottlefly-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More pictures on my <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/erharold\/FullertonArboretum#\">Picasa page<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still learning the EOS 50D. Today I improved my skills at choosing the right aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. I also figured out that in bright sunlight I should just set it on P (Program Mode) and let the camera choose. I also figured out how to review images in the field, and delete maybe half of the bad ones. That makes later reviewing in Lightroom a lot faster. <\/p>\n<p>I also realized how to see which autofocus points the camera was using. However I did not figure out how to tell the camera to just use the center point. When you&#8217;re shooting a 2mm fly, you want the camera to focus on the fly, not the nice green leaf 1cm away and 2cm back, which it did with distressing frequency. 9-point auto-focus is not a good thing for macro work. After returning home and consulting the manual I think I see how to do this next expedition, as well as how to set the white balance to meter off the bug and its immediate vicinity rather than the entire frame. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably some sort of blow fly: More pictures on my Picasa page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[107,99],"class_list":["post-1002337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","tag-flies","tag-macro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002337"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002374,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002337\/revisions\/1002374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}