That's a great pic David,
Episyrphus balteatus if I'm not mistaken - there's a lot of them about at the moment and they are, IMO, one of the most beautiful of hoverflies.
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Originally Posted by Mike Jackson  I set my camera to manual. Choose an aperture to suit the depth of field I'm after, normally quite a narrow aperture to give a good depth of field and a fst enough shutter speed to stop camera shake, normally 1/125. I then let the Flash work out what intensity to use using ETTL metering. Most stuff comes out slightly under exposed and just needs a slight tweak. |
That's almost exactly what I do Mike, except I normally use a shuuter speed of 1/160th or 1/200th. This is because I'm using the Sigma 150mm macro lens and it's usually hand-held so 1/125th would be a trifle on the slow side. I tend to keep the aperture in the range of f11 to f16 unless I'm going for an "arty" shot with shallow depth of field. I also often find the shots a little bit under-exposed but just dial in a little bit of exposure compensation.
I'm using the Nikon SB-R200 close-up flashes rather than the Sigma ringflash but the principle is the same.
Dave P.