Ladybird Larvae eating - and the SPOTS macro 'togs hate!

Paul Iddon

Ladybird larvae are quite difficult to photograph I think because their black bodies don't seem to like showing any detail. I found this one eating an aphid nymph...

However...

Below is a series of 4 before and after images (a total of 8 images) taken today to show just how bad the sensor can be especially doing macro which has a nasty habit of magnifying greatly all those tiny little motes of dust!

The first group of 4 I didn't tidy up - all the crap is is still there.

The second group of 4 are the edited ones where I have removed the dust!

Just goes to show what gets inside the camera - a blight for macro photographers in particular (and yes, I know I need to go get it cleaned, lol...)


Before:











After:











Paul.

Stumblebum

After wins....furthermore After #2 is the keeper for me!

Paul Iddon

Stumblebum wrote: »

After wins....furthermore After #2 is the keeper for me!

Thank you m8.

Paul.

e6filmuser

Yes. I recently cleaned my sensor. Following the next time I changed a lens I had more dust than before the cleanup. Thankfully it is all top left. It is easier to use the healing brush in Photoshop.

The dust shows up much more at small apertures. I doubt that we have more dust than other branches of photography.

Harold

Bugsrus

e6filmuser wrote: »

Yes. I recently cleaned my sensor. Following the next time I changed a lens I had more dust than before the cleanup. Thankfully it is all top left. It is easier to use the healing brush in Photoshop.

The dust shows up much more at small apertures. I doubt that we have more dust than other branches of photography.

Harold

... and we hardly ever need to take a shot of blue sky at f22!

But I do find I get a lot of crap on the sensor ... mainly (I think) because I often prefer to use tubes on the 100mm rather than the MPE-65.

Ed

Lord Vetinari

Lovely shots Paul.
Yup sensor dust is the bane of macro shooters.
Brian V.

Paul Iddon

Cheers guys

Paul.