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 Post subject: How To Click Macro of Moving Insects
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:18 pm 
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Like most Macro photographers, I love to click the tiny moving insects. After many shots, I realised the trick to photographing moving insects, wasn't to focus on the actual insect, but rather where you know it is most likely to come next.

Take this photograph of an Ant below for example. At first, I was quickly following the ant around trying to focus and click a photo before it moved again.

This particlular ant was busy and moving around a lot. After viewing couple of pictures on my digital camera's LCD screen, I realised they were blured and I didn't even a single focused image. It was then, I sat quietly and watched the ant to see where it liked stop the most.

I then put my camera on a tripod and focused on that particular area where it was stopping the most. It wasn't long before the ant came to that area and stopped for a sec and I was able to use my remote release to fire off a few well focused images.


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 Post subject: Re: How To Click Macro of Moving Insects
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:21 pm 
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very informative Deepak bhai
thanks for sharing the macro techniques.
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 Post subject: Re: How To Click Macro of Moving Insects
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:06 pm 
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very nice tip .. Keep them coming

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 Post subject: Re: How To Click Macro of Moving Insects
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:17 pm 
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Nice input from U Deepak paajee.....nice example of predictive focussing ...
Thanks for sharing .

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 Post subject: Re: How To Click Macro of Moving Insects
PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:44 pm 
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Great topic and a great help Deepak paaji.

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 Post subject: Re: How To Click Macro of Moving Insects
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very nice tip.. will help trewmendously in macro shots with MY P&S cams

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 Post subject: Re: How To Click Macro of Moving Insects
PostPosted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:03 pm 
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Thanks for the input, will help us.

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