Nice and nasty macros

Lord Vetinari · October 5, 2005

Two nice and one nasty macro (you have been warned).
Comments welcome
Brian V.

Autumn colours (no I didn't Photoshop the colours)

Hanging around (it's a dance fly)

Blood and Gore (I've never seen a spider make such a mess before)

TristanP · October 5, 2005

Beautiful! I love that first one. As for the spider, maybe he was REALLY hungry.

Skippy · October 5, 2005

Wow!

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Two nice and one nasty macro (you have been warned).
Comments welcome
Brian V.
Autumn colours (no I didn't Photoshop the colours)
Hanging around (it's a dance fly)
Blood and Gore (I've never seen a spider make such a mess before)

Gawwwwd Brian they look fantastic........you sooooo make me want to get out there and shoot some bugs, but alas the weather here is still sucking bigtime.
I love the colours, and I really, really, really love the body and facial structure of the flies

....excellent series yet again from you

Skippy (Australia)

DavidTO · October 5, 2005

You continually amaze me.

Lord Vetinari · October 6, 2005

TristanP wrote:

Beautiful! I love that first one. As for the spider, maybe he was REALLY hungry.

Thanks TristanP,
I rather liked the colours in the first one. I think the spider was spicing up the food with some chilli sauce .

Skippy wrote:

Gawwwwd Brian they look fantastic........you sooooo make me want to get out there and shoot some bugs, but alas the weather here is still sucking bigtime.
I love the colours, and I really, really, really love the body and facial structure of the flies ....excellent series yet again from you
Skippy (Australia)

Thanks Skippy
These pics were taken in very dull weather, temp about 16.C. Makes the flies easier to shoot. That first fly stayed on that leaf for over two hours- I went back and took some more pics of it.

DavidTO wrote:

You continually amaze me.

Thanks DavidTO

Brian V.

Higgmeister · October 6, 2005

HI Brian,
The first one is very nice. I like that you included the fall leaf so we knew what the background colors were

. Macro's aren't just about the bugs, but the backgrounds too and you hit this one on the head.

And as for the spider, I think its mommy didn't teach it proper eating etiquette:D.

Thanks for sharing,
Chris

JonMikal · October 6, 2005

wow, these are spot on!

Lord Vetinari · October 7, 2005

Higgmeister wrote:

HI Brian,
The first one is very nice. I like that you included the fall leaf so we knew what the background colors were. Macro's aren't just about the bugs, but the backgrounds too and you hit this one on the head.

And as for the spider, I think its mommy didn't teach it proper eating etiquette:D.

Thanks for sharing,
Chris

Thanks Chris,
I think the pentax 50mm lens I'm using at the moment gives better colour than my sigma 105mm.
I suspect that spider has got a bottle of sauce hidden somewhere

JonMikal wrote:

wow, these are spot on!

Thanks Jon

Brian V.

Nikolai · October 7, 2005

Wow!
Was it a ketchup?:-)
Awesome shots!

Can you please remind us what gear are you using?
TIA!

Lord Vetinari · October 7, 2005

Nikolai wrote:

Was it a ketchup?:-)
Awesome shots!
Can you please remind us what gear are you using?
TIA!

Well if it was ketchup, I didn't put it there

You can see details of my rig here-
http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=17138

Only difference at the moment is that I'm using an emergency lens as my 105mm macro is away for repair. The lens is made up from a SMC Pentax 50mm F1.7M lens on kmount extension rings (7cms of them) the smallest ring I superglued to an EOS Tmount adapter which I knocked the Tmount out of. This gives almost exactly 1.5:1 magnification. This allows me to fix it to the EOS 300D body but of course it's completely manual. I normally shoot in manual with no AF so that's no problem, but manual aperture makes life difficult- The viewfinder is pretty dim at F11.
Brian V.