Some small bugs in the grass

Lord Vetinari

Size range 2.5 to 4.0 mm, all found when I was down on my hand and knees doing dewdrop shots.

brian V

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Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Size range 2.5 to 4.0 mm, all found when I was down on my hand and knees doing dewdrop shots.

brian V

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Hmmmmmmmm again I ask ....... is it September yet

Ohhhhhhh tease away my friend.. your tiny little creatures look great.
Hope I can find something show worthy to shoot and show you soon.

Was that little Fly alive or already dead caught in the web?

Great Series yet again from you Brian
Thanks for sharing ....... Skippy
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Lord Vetinari

Skippy wrote:

Hmmmmmmmm again I ask ....... is it September yet

Ohhhhhhh tease away my friend.. your tiny little creatures look great.
Hope I can find something show worthy to shoot and show you soon.

Was that little Fly alive or already dead caught in the web?

Great Series yet again from you Brian
Thanks for sharing ....... Skippy
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Thanks skippy

The little fly was alive - I thought at first it was just roosting - some small flies do use the non sticky outer strands of a spiders web for that, but when I saw the shot on my monitor, decided it's rear legs looked too stuck for that.
Nearly September- not long to go.

Brian V.

schmoo

Amazing, amazing, amazing! You must have quite a rich garden to get consistently beautiful backdrops for any angle of bug shots. I love the range of colors.

Speaking of colors, that nearly-clear spider fascinates me. Fancy taking on the hues of everything around you! Is that normal for that species or is it some kind of baby-version?

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schmooo wrote:

Amazing, amazing, amazing! You must have quite a rich garden to get consistently beautiful backdrops for any angle of bug shots. I love the range of colors.

Speaking of colors, that nearly-clear spider fascinates me. Fancy taking on the hues of everything around you! Is that normal for that species or is it some kind of baby-version?

Thanks for the kind comments
Not quite as amazing as you think- I put the flower behind the bugs myself - hangover from doing dewdrop refraction shots using the same technique

Brian V.

USAIR

Beautiful color was wondering how you did it

Fred

pathfinder

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks for the kind comments
Not quite as amazing as you think- I put the flower behind the bugs myself - hangover from doing dewdrop refraction shots using the same technique

Brian V.

The Ethics Committee meeting will be called soon, I am sure!!:D:D

(Some landscape shooters refuse to even move trash out of their scene, for fear of being accused of altering the shot.)

Very nice series, Brian, and the use of the gardener's perogative ( moving the foliage around ) makes a great deal of sense.

Lord Vetinari

USAIR wrote:

Beautiful color was wondering how you did it

Fred

Thanks fred
Brian V.

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pathfinder wrote:

The Ethics Committee meeting will be called soon, I am sure!!:D:D

(Some landscape shooters refuse to even move trash out of their scene, for fear of being accused of altering the shot.)

Very nice series, Brian, and the use of the gardener's perogative ( moving the foliage around ) makes a great deal of sense.

Thanks for looking and commenting

Fraid I'm not puritanical when it comes to photography apart from not harming the bugs in any way that I'm shooting.
Makes the shot harder- bugs don't tend to like flowers being stuck behind them- they tend to fly off. Just seemed a logical extension of the dewdrop refractions especially as that was what I was doing at the time.
Brian V.

Awais Yaqub

Wow brian loved them very lovely compositions and colors

BigAl

Super series Brian - the oof flower really makes them work. Interesting the spiders legs picking up the reflection from the flower.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks Awais and Al for looking and commenting - much appreciated.

Al- yes the OOF flower does make an interesting background but not always easy to get it behind the bug without spooking it. Don't think I'm going to walk around with a flower on a telescopic pole for more normal macro shots... yet

brian V.

riz_sat

beautiful work
and nice colours

Sylar

Bugs
Hey brian..
All photos are perfect one question, can you post one picture from camera to forum without PS, and this pictures do you use PS. My question is because i pay one this lense too MP-E and lovely see teh image directly from camera coz this colors is amazing.....

PhilH

Super shots Brian

You always manage to get so much detail in the eye, do you use flash for every shot?

Lord Vetinari

riz_sat wrote:

beautiful work
and nice colours

Thanks Riz - glad you liked them

Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

Sylar wrote:

Hey brian..
All photos are perfect one question, can you post one picture from camera to forum without PS, and this pictures do you use PS. My question is because i pay one this lense too MP-E and lovely see teh image directly from camera coz this colors is amazing.....

Thanks Sylar
I normally do very little PS work apart from where I have focus stacked images. Standard PS work is levels correction if needed- mild de-noise and a USM sharpen.
Pic below is straight after RAW conversion with no PS work. It's one of the pics used in the focus stack. Whoops just noticed this is not one of the pics used in this thread (sorry I used it in another thread) but I'm sure you get the idea- I certainly don't tend to play with colour during PS work.

Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

PhilH wrote:

Super shots Brian

You always manage to get so much detail in the eye, do you use flash for every shot?

Thanks Phil,
All these shots are using flash but I don't always use flash.
For detail in fly's eyes you need to be shooting around 1.5:1 or higher, use apertures around F8-F11 and use flash. As far as I can work out flash helps bring the detail out by giving higher contrast on the detail edges. I've tried shots under similar conditions using natural light and eye detail is not so good due partially to the use of higher ISO but mainly because I tend to shoot natural light shots under hazy conditions which give a lower contrast (the reason I like them). You can get reasonable detail in bright sun but you then tend to get those awful hexagon shapes of brightness on the flies eyes.

Brian V.

DaddyO

Another awesome set of sharp images! I also positively love the colors captured in the backgrounds.

Sylar

wow
Brian amazing without PS is pretty cool too... i know but i think better after see all your shot make a difusor like yours, coz i will pay the ring flash but your result is so perfect

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DaddyO wrote:

Another awesome set of sharp images! I also positively love the colors captured in the backgrounds.

Thanks Daddyo
The BG flower does give an interesting effect
Brian V.

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Sylar wrote:

Brian amazing without PS is pretty cool too... i know but i think better after see all your shot make a difusor like yours, coz i will pay the ring flash but your result is so perfect

Worth trying first but remember you do need an off camera cord and a flash bracket that allows you to keep the head of the diffuser near the end of the lens
Brian V.

Sylar

thanks
Okay my friend thanks for your help...

banjon

Love the detail and the back drops really are nice. They really add punch. When I'm doing macros out and about, I try to work something into the background. It usually gives it a sense of smallness I guess.

Nice job.

Rich

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banjon wrote:

Love the detail and the back drops really are nice. They really add punch. When I'm doing macros out and about, I try to work something into the background. It usually gives it a sense of smallness I guess.

Nice job.

Rich

Thanks Rich
Tend to only do this when I'm doing dewdrop flower refraction shots (have the flowers to hand).
Brian V.