BEL Pictures

[CourtneyG01]

Got my macro lense out and had some fun with my little baby BEL female.



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[Rickys_Reptiles]

Your field of focus is really odd.... F2?

[CourtneyG01]

Your field of focus is really odd.... F2?

It's a F2.8. The reason the focus might be a bit weird is that it is unfortunatly a 40mm zoom, all I could afford. Another is that I was using manual focus and I wear glasses, so it looks good until I put it on the screen.

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[CourtneyG01]

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[Rickys_Reptiles]

Well it's a great start! And a beautiful snake.

[treaux]

Beautiful snake!

To get more depth of field, you need to add more light and open the F stop up probably to more like 5.6 or 8 to get the whole snake in focus. You can also add ISO and get take a longer exposure to make up for the lack of light, but there are always limits to that.

[cristacake]

I love the pic with her little tail so cute!

[Solarsoldier001]

Beautiful snake!

To get more depth of field, you need to add more light and open the F stop up probably to more like 5.6 or 8 to get the whole snake in focus. You can also add ISO and get take a longer exposure to make up for the lack of light, but there are always limits to that.

If you open it to a longer exposure? Does that mean that you would have to have a tripod to stable the camera?


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[PitOnTheProwl]

Beautiful snake.
Everyone else might as well be speaking French LoL

[CourtneyG01]

I know how to use a camera properly by the way (tone of voice is friendly here, not snappish or condescending). I wanna say I have spent 12 years using Nikon DSLRS, from the D80 to my current D5500.

The lighting is the way it is because of 2 things. I was in my room at night and the lights I do have in my room are crap, and she came right up to the lense and out of the flash range. Also the range is 40mm, which means I have to get super close to my subject to get a great shot, which also ruins lighting as well.

Focus is wonky because of me using manual focus on a very fast moving curious snake without a tripod. Again my glasses as well also do not help when looking down the view finder.

I need to check what my f stop was on these pictures, but it had to have been less than f/22. I could try again during the day with proper lighting and use a f/32, but focus and depth of field is such a tricky thing with macro, especially when there is so much working against you

I would love to get a lense that is above 55mm, but those lense cost over $500 and I am a poor college kid who needs to buy a laptop soon and cannot afford such a lense.

Also leaving the aperture open longer really only works with a lot of lighting, with how dark it was all images would be blurry.

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