Frogspawn Macro Photo - Updated with ANOTHER New Shot
 

Had a little time today so I thought I'd try to practice a little with my camera.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m.../Frogspawn.jpg

Hopefully get it figured out with a little more practice but I kinda liked this one.

That's so cool!

ahah yeah I thought so too :)

Nice pic. what camera and lens did you use?

Nikon d90 ( http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d90.htm ) w/ Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/2.8 VR Micro ( http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/105vr.htm)

It's a fairly decent camera as far as I understand. Too bad I still suck at using it. All in good time.. all in good time. I'll be winning POTM in no time ahah JK

A good start, what you need to do is turn the flow off and get that thing to sit perfectly still. Take a nice slow exposure, keep your aperture up in the high mid range and most importantly get that iso down, way too high. You can aim a little lower on the exposure to give a better feel for the light and create some light shadows and avoid over exposed areas. Also make sure you're aligned perfectly with the glass.

Try
ISO 200
Aperture priority set to F/16
exposure: -0.7 (partial or center weighted average, which ever works best)
Then go from there.

My shutter speed would have to be really low given that f-stop? and the photo would be way under exposed? I think I need to lower my iso and up my exposure f-stop and shutter speed?

Yes your shutter speed will be slow but that's fine if things are still, make sure you use your remote or timer. The slower speed will compensate for exposure, you set the offset to -0.7 to be a little below the norm.

I'll take one like that tomorrow and post it but I'm telling you it'll be sooo under exposed or the shutter speed will have to be super slow. Are things really that still with the flow off?

with the ISO at 3200 thats what is giving the photo its grainy look. i think i would try a setting a little wider than what sphelps suggested at:

ISO: 100/200 (depends if you have highlight priority set)
aperture set at: f4-5.6
shutter speed: whatever gives you a metering of slightly under the center weight.

i take all my photos at f4-8 and usually by f8 i have pictures which are sharp from corner to corner so imo theres really no need for f14-22 in our application when it comes to taking tank shots. Shooting at a wider aperture this will give you alot faster shutter speed.