# @sonyalphafemale on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CUF4m81pCAt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17379913-sonyalphafemale-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/cae90f9a1b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-09-21T17:24:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sony Alpha Female (@sonyalphafemale) — https://gondola.cc/sonyalphafemale

## Caption

Congratulations, finding.aim wins our #SonyMacro Challenge for her dragonfly image.

"The natural world is my inspiration, especially when viewed through a macro lens. The more I find, the more curious I become about my surroundings and what shares my space."

“Photographing insects with a macro lens can be challenging and you need to work fast because they usually don’t hang around for long. Bracing the camera the best I could, keeping my elbows tucked against my body, I pointed the Sony 90mm f/2.8 Macro G lens at the dragonfly and manually adjusted the focus ring until it was at 1:1 magnification. I’m using the Alpha 6400 so I used the in-camera focus peaking to help get the perfect focus as I moved in for the shot.”

“I’m a self taught photographer, so I may not always do things ‘technically’ right, but my aim is to capture a beautiful image that shares what I found most interesting about the subject at that moment in time. In this case it was the dragonfly’s eyes.”

Create alongside our current grant winner honeydark_kids_photo for your chance to win a Sony ZV-1 camera. From now until October 10, 2021

🔸 Create a new post of your best children’s portraits.
🔸 Follow and tag sonyalphafemale
🔸 Use #sonyalphafemale and #sonykids in your post

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## Tags

sonymacro, sonykids, sonyalphafemale

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