Canon t5 to SL2?

I’d love criticism on that photo btw. I dunno if metadata is available, but iso 800 probably 1/40 ish shutter aperture f 16-18 and onboard flash diffused with a piece of paper. I’ve been being serious about photography for about 8 months now so still relatively new.

At least with the 15mm macro, an issue I continually run against is ISO. I was told not to go over 800 by a friend, I actually tried some shots in 1200 yesterday and it was quite nice to do, though indeed a bit grainy.

i keep the 55/250 around for bird vouchers. Id rather not get into the ratrace that is bird photography with long lenses, so happy that sell it.

see to increase the DOF, i need a small aperture with this lens....there is no point in taking wide angle macros if the background is totally blurry(and yes, the frog is as close as I could get without throwing shade) but then with this the background often gets too dark.

I ran into an interesting issue photographing butterflies at a hot spring today. My macro twin flash was being whiny(bad batteries?), but popup with a piece of foam saved the day. However, then sunlit steam started to billow out right by the butterflies. In hindsight I should probably have cranked the iso up to increase dof/shutter speed for clear steam, but all i managed was faint haze. Maybe you could help me put some steam in in photoshop haha, as it was pretty epic.

i shoot raw when i can. I have basically zero knowledge of post processing other than using the basic editor to bring back highlights, shadows, and fix warmness issues. The 15mm is manual aperture and focus, and since I often cannot raise my head to look at the aperture ring without scaring the subject sometimes it is a bit of guesswork.