Jaspers on Blackberries!

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In my quest for good macro bug shots, I only managed to get to my front garden today...I did catch this wasp having a spot of blackberry juice...

...I think, looking at it now, that I sharpened the first too much, but other than that, what do you all think of these ones?





And this one of a spiders' lunch, which may not be technically that good, but I liked the "Horror movie" sort of feel to it...



All with M42 manual 135mm, at f11, with +10 macro filter and with super duper flash diffuser/deflector.

Lord Vetinari

Came out well. Think all are suffering a bit from not enough diffusion on the flash and some distortion from the add-on diopters.
Brian V.

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Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Came out well. Think all are suffering a bit from not enough diffusion on the flash and some distortion from the add-on diopters.
Brian V.

Thanks.

I see the lack of diffusion, but can you explain a bit more about the distortion? Only used the single dioptre on this one to try to limit that...

Cheers

GOLDENORFE

i think your lighting is the biggest problem, all the detail is being burnt out.
need to add more diffusion to diffuser

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GOLDENORFE wrote: »

i think your lighting is the biggest problem, all the detail is being burnt out.
need to add more diffusion to diffuser

A little more diffusion on the diffuser, also used the 135mm M42 manual lens with the smallest macro tube instead of a macro filter... how's this?

GOLDENORFE

looks a lot sharper and cleaner image

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GOLDENORFE wrote: »

looks a lot sharper and cleaner image

Thanks...this is the way forward now, I think...

Lord Vetinari

Agree last shot does lookk a lot clenaer and sharper.
The distortion shows up mainly on the OOF brightspots where you can see some chromatic aberration slight red/blue banding at the edges of the bright bits. The other thing that looked odd to mewas the leaf detail on the RHS of #1 which goes oddly ditorted as it goes OOF.
Brian V.