I love snails - they manage to be both freaky and familiar at the same time. This little chap was crawling down the top of my rough wooden fence just after I got my sigma 70-300, and I took so many pictures of him he forgot where he was going and ended up facing the other way.
Technical info: iso 400, f/8, 1/400s, handheld (the high iso and shot speed were because I was shooting at 190 mm, and had no tripod at the time, so camera shake was a bit of a nightmare).
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I tried some macro shots with my telephoto (the Canon 55-250 IS) and couldn’t ever get it to focus…what am I doing wrong?
Focussing can be a bitch with close macro work. I tend to use manual focus.
Try moving a little further away, you may actually be too close.
heh - I was a lot further away. This is a crop