Kongōkai Life on a Moss Bed

NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
edited June 30, 2010 in Holy Macro
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2010
    Like it - mixed sald with crispy bits
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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2010
    Kongōkai(3) Life on a Moss Bed
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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2010
    Kongōkai(4) Life on a Moss Bed
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    edited June 30, 2010
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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2010
    Kongōkai(6) Life on a Moss Bed
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  • GOLDENORFEGOLDENORFE Super Moderators Posts: 4,747 moderator
    edited June 30, 2010
    Interesting, like #4 best for composition
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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2010
    GOLDENORFE wrote: »
    Interesting, like #4 best for composition

    Thanks for the comment, Phil.

    These are my first pictures using LV's hand held magnifying glass method. I used a 40D (with battery pack), 100mm macro f2.8L IS USM and 580EXII with diffuser - quite a handful. My hands are quite steady, but at 1:1 magnification, with the weight of the gear and the length of time needed for multiple exposures at tiny focus distance intervals, the image was jumping about badly. I processed the stacks of between 4 and 10 exposures using Zerene, and I was amazed at the beautiful job it did to get not just something recognisable, but something a tiny bit attractive. Obviously the pics leave something to be desired in the way of a seamless DOF!

    I think there are different challenges here to shooting bugs. Many bugs which are photographed are larger than these tiny plants, and they make more assertive and recognisable subjects. Oftentimes it is regarded as enough to get the bugs eyes in focus. However, the type of pics here have to be composed to first create a subject, and enough of one to give the pic justification, out of a mixture of things, and then to make a context for the subject using the interplay of foreground and background, light and shade, color, contrast, focus and out of focus - all of the things which are normally involved in portraits and landscapes, and all far more challenging on this scale than normal. By contrast, a pic of a bug can wow just by the novelty of the magnified view it gives alone, although of course the better examples are also stylish photographs for the reasons I have just listed.

    Anyway, I find these micro-environments with the busy life that fills them poignant and beautiful. These particular ones find themselves on the side of a steep ravine dropping towards a creek and falls in the lonely forests of north east Tasmania. I think the only successful way to achieve maximum effect in photographs of them is to use a tripod and focus rail, and that is what I plan to do - if I can find a good focus rail 2nd hand.

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

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