I had to work late tonight, so everything is running behind. When I got home, I immediately went back out again to search for a subject for my latest shot-o-the-day.
So I came across this little guy. He was slowly making his way along our hose reel holder in the back. I picked him up and brought him inside (don't tell Sonia) and set up my makeshift studio.
A speedlight aimed at the ceiling in the den and my trusty 60mm Macro lens.
Looks like he's running laps !! :-)
A good tip for this kind of shot. This is shot at 1/13 of a second and since he was moving around a lot I could not use my tripod. I had the ISO up at 800 even with my flash. The aperture was at f/14 and I couldn't go any deeper to maintain the sharpness in the pic.
The tip is to make sure this guy is moving on a plane perpendicular to the camera lens. His front antenna is blurred as is the top of his shell. So if he was moving towards me I would have had to use a smaller aperture, and bump up the ISO and slow down the shutter. But this combination worked.
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