I've got my eye on you
I've got my eye on you
I've got my eye on you
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Jun, 2015Views
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Behind The Lens
Location
I'm a self taught photographer and love to play about with depth of field. This was taken in my little garden, I have a wall that run alongside the house and when it rains, the snails come out. I managed to get up pretty close using my canon 100mm macro usm lens and manually focused on the eye.Time
I forget the time of day I took this, likely taken just after lunchtime.But can be any time when it brightens up a little.Lighting
I prefer to not use the camera flash and opted for natural light here, I find using the flash too harsh and I do have some LED lights but didn't use them on this shot.Equipment
I use a canon 70d with a canon 100mm macro usm lens. No flash and setting on F2.4 aperture as I wanted the eye to mostly be in focus and the rest blurred.Inspiration
I love all wildlife and really enjoy capturing them going about their business. I wanted to try a different composition to the normal pictures taken of snails.Editing
I use Adobe Lightroom 6, and have purchased quite a few presets. I usually end up by using my goto preset to start with that just makes it a bit brighter and clearer then use the brush tool to sharpen parts and use the sliders to enhance the picture to get the tone and fell of the image at the time when I'm working on it. A lot has to do with the music I'm listening to at the time as I find that influences my choices in how to finalise an image.In my camera bag
I was lucky enough to win a camera bag from Viewbug for one of my butterfly shots which now means I can travel comfortably with all my lenses. I have the Canon 70d (used to replace the 400d I broke). Canon lenses I have so far are: 100mm macro usm, mpe 65mm 1-5x macro, 50mm, 24mm, standard kit lens and Tamron 200mm zoom lens. I have some LED lighting that I find easier to work with as the light is constant so you can adjust the strength before you click away. I also have a little mobile studio but have not used that too much. This came with 3 backdrops, 2 umbrellas, and 3 lamps, tripods and stands.Feedback
I would advise observing your subject for a while and then slowly and gently get closer to the subject. You'll need a lot of patience as they don't pose for you and so you have to take the opportunities as they arise.
