Look What Ive Got!

GOLDENORFE

couple of shots that i had trouble with exposure, comments welcome. shiny body on earwigg a real problem.

JUMPER WITH MEAL



DO YOU WANT IT?





DUNG FLY WITH MEAL






Thanks for looking.
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Paul Iddon

All are fantastic Phil

Wish I could emulate some of the photos I see on this forum board...


Paul.

Brian-D

Nice shots. I like the jumper photos he matches well with the wood.

Skippy

GOLDENORFE wrote:

couple of shots that i had trouble with exposure, comments welcome. shiny body on earwig a real problem.

JUMPER WITH MEAL
DO YOU WANT IT?
DUNG FLY WITH MEAL
Thanks for looking.
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

What's the Jumper eating? is it a little cockroach?
I love it when you guys post images with Predators and Prey

Your little Jumper is very photogenic Phil ... cute little fella,
though the guy in it's mouth probably doesn't think so

Shining bodies and Flash are not easy to deal with.

Great series Phil, well done with the Predator/Prey Shots
.... Skippy
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Jack'll do

Specracular Phil. Especially the last one!!

Lord Vetinari

Excellent series Phil
Doing well with the focus stacks

Love the first spider shot and the the butterfly. The earwig is pretty unique as well with the tail threat.

WRT to bright reflections I think they are almost impossible to avoid with some bugs. More diffusion will help not to blow the spots but will not stop them. The only thing I know can work is just altering the flash/bug/camera angles so any reflective areas do not reflect light back into the camera. Having said that some bugs are just shiny and bright reflectives spots just show this. There is a technique where you polarise the flash output and have a polariser on the lens which can stop them almost completely but you end up losing more than 4 stops of light and the subject can actually look very unnatural.

Brian V.

GOLDENORFE

thanks for your comments everyone, i have found a bug with a meal tends to stay still a lot longer giving a bit more time to get a decent shot.
phil.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

tlee

Beautiful!

cmorganphotography

That spider looks almost cute with your picture choices.... but he's still a creeeeeepy spider!
The last one makes me cringe because it's so realistic and he can do some damage with that clamp! ouch!

GOLDENORFE

thanks for your comments tlee & cmorgan. jumpers are really cute!

phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/