My first ladybird

Ambrola

You guys that know me remember the last time I tried this. how do I keep that little bit of flash from showing??

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Stink Bug??
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GOLDENORFE

much better

ladybirds look a bit too soft though, are they cropped?


shieldbug shots look very good, light looks good and they are sharp

JoshH

Love the eye detail :-) Anyone know what the little bright red blob is just above the stinkbug's eye? - It looks just like the red blobs on Brian V.'s photos of the bubble blowing shield bug, but what are they for?

aj986s

Ambrola wrote: »

You guys that know me remember the last time I tried this. how do I keep that little bit of flash from showing??


Stink Bug??

I would guess using a reflected flash source should soften the flash highlight. What type of flash & setup were you using?

Regarding the Stink Bug....unless you're in their native Asia habitat, I hope you killed it afterwards. They are such a nuisance this year.

Ambrola

aj986s wrote: »

I would guess using a reflected flash source should soften the flash highlight. What type of flash & setup were you using?

Regarding the Stink Bug....unless you're in their native Asia habitat, I hope you killed it afterwards. They are such a nuisance this year.

I was using a Nikon D-80 with a Nikon SB-600 and 105vr Macro lens with Kenko tubes. I have the camera set up like most of the guys, lite down at the end of lens and so on.
I never kill a bug, just can't do it. I let it go back to where I found it.

Ambrola

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

much better

ladybirds look a bit too soft though, are they cropped?


shieldbug shots look very good, light looks good and they are sharp

Phil, I crooped one or two of them just a little. Would it help to crop more? Thanks for the kind words.

GOLDENORFE

NO! never crop :nono

lose too many pixels and therefore detail, unless you have a d5mk 11

Ambrola

Good, because I hardly ever do. If I do, its very little. Thanks

Lord Vetinari

Looking good - esp like ~2 & #5.
You can't really stop flash reflections on things like ladybirds- just make them not overexposed and wider and softer using more diffusion.

Josh - that's a simple eye on the shieldbug - most insects have 3 of them - called ocelli - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_eyes_in_invertebrates

Brian v.

jpc

aj986s wrote: »

...Regarding the Stink Bug....unless you're in their native Asia habitat, I hope you killed it afterwards. They are such a nuisance this year.

WTF is wrong with you? This isn't the right hobby for you if you could even consider that.