Blueberry Flower with a Surprise

Zanotti

Was taking some bug shots today. It was very dark and rainy, so getting consistant light was difficult.

Found this blueberry flower, very small - about the size of a pencil eraser - and inside was a tiny crab spider with a gnat it had caught:










Lots of noise in the dark areas, shot at ISO400 ( on a Canon 50D). What's the best tip to resolve this?


Thanks,

Z






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Zanotti

Reworked a couple to reduce noise. Any improvement?









Thanks for the feedback.



Z



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Lord Vetinari

Nice captures by all - that is a small spider !

Re the noise did you try a noise reduction prog like the free version of neatimage ?

Assume you were using flash for this ? did you have to brighten the photos in PP ?

You will always get some noise in dark areas but using a lower ISO (with flash) and getting the exposure correct will reduce them. Using flash with a good diffuser also helps as it speads the light a bit reducing the contrast and lighting the darker areas a bit better.
Brian V.

Skippy

Zanotti wrote:

Was taking some bug shots today. It was very dark and rainy, so getting consistant light was difficult.

Found this blueberry flower, very small - about the size of a pencil eraser - and inside was a tiny crab spider with a gnat it had caught:


Lots of noise in the dark areas, shot at ISO400 ( on a Canon 50D). What's the best tip to resolve this?

Thanks,
Z
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Noise can be so disappointing after all your hard work getting the shot.

Thank goodness we have such talented folks here at Dgrin who happily share their knowledge with the rest of us ... thank you Brian

Hope you are able to resolve the noise issue Zanotti .... Skippy
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