Rob set the starter with his Nine Frames Later thread. A great idea, so I thought I would join in.
Well its a while since I took a pic, so looking round the garden today I thought of a photo. 'Yellow' ....... a macro of a hoverfly on a yellow Dahlia.
This was certainly going to be easier said than done as there was a fair old wind into the garden and it was fairly cloudy dull.
To get in close and I was using a 105 manual focus macro lens plus PN11 tube (52.5mm extension), and fill flash with SB-80DX and diy food bowl diffuser. Given that lens to subject distance with 105mm lens and PN11 is 9inches, I had to do a lot of sitting around on the ground waiting for the hoverflys to get used to me and the camera setup before they would come near the flower. I think the big food bowl diffuser had a fair 'scare' impact as far as they were concerned too.
Dof with that lot is really pretty shallow and often by the time the subject was framed and nearly in focus it was off. Either that or just before pressing the shutter a bumble bee would land and scare the hoverfly, or a gust of wind would render the whole thing a blurr just before tripping the shutter.
Perseverance finally paid off and I got the shot I had in mind, so I tried a different flower for a another shot and so another 40 minutes passed before I got that one. This exercise was not so much a how many frames later job, but more a time thing, as it took nearly 2 hours to get these two shots. A fair degree of focus frustration with fast moving subjects so this was most certainly an occasion when I wished I had a fast accurate
autofocus lens.
Don