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p.1 #1 · Winter Hoverfly

Doesn't look like winter...

Tech specs: Canon 40D (F13, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MPE-65mm macro lens (@1x & 1.5x) + a diffused MT-24EX (manual mode 1/32).

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Nov 11, 2009 at 11:48 AM

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p.1 #2 · Winter Hoverfly

Both excellent, but second frame steals the show IMO. I really like the faces on these guys...almost have a human look.

Kenny

Nov 11, 2009 at 02:31 PM

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p.1 #3 · Winter Hoverfly

Love the exposure here. Lovely colour.

Mark

Nov 11, 2009 at 02:36 PM

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p.1 #4 · Winter Hoverfly

Beautiful light & astounding detail.

I think there's a slight green cast in the first?

Nov 11, 2009 at 03:23 PM

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p.1 #5 · Winter Hoverfly

Thanks Kenny, Mark, and GillR

That flower has a kind of green cast to it, so I'm often surprised when I shoot it and it looks yellow.

Nov 11, 2009 at 04:19 PM

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p.1 #6 · Winter Hoverfly

Dalantech wrote:

That flower has a kind of green cast to it, so I'm often surprised when I shoot it and it looks yellow.

I'm obviously on a roll for getting "suggestions" not quite right today ....

Nov 11, 2009 at 04:42 PM

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p.1 #7 · Winter Hoverfly

GillR wrote:
Dalantech wrote:

That flower has a kind of green cast to it, so I'm often surprised when I shoot it and it looks yellow.

I'm obviously on a roll for getting "suggestions" not quite right today ....

Actually you had a valid point -it's just that particular flower. Bad enough that it's yellow and plays hell with the light meter, but at the end of the day it sometimes takes on a greenish cast. If the critters didn't like it I'd never photograph them cause it's like shooting in a room with a mix of florescent and tungsten lights -you just can't win...

Nov 11, 2009 at 04:48 PM

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p.1 #8 · Winter Hoverfly

You guys and your Canon MPE-65mms makes me wish Nikon would make something like that, but from what I hear, technique plays a huge factor in this type of work. I have a long way to go. Very nice!

Nov 11, 2009 at 06:21 PM

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p.1 #9 · Winter Hoverfly

Lovely captures- a marmalade hoverfly

light looks oddly similar to a single flash shot ?
Brian v.

Nov 12, 2009 at 07:27 AM

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p.1 #10 · Winter Hoverfly

Thanks Jeannean and Brian

LordV wrote:
...light looks oddly similar to a single flash shot ?

I had one flash head at 11 O'clock (using it like a key) and it was on a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe. So the light from it was hitting the hoverfly at an angle that mimicked the sun. The fill, at 2 O'clock, is the light source that looks like a flash (due to the angle).

Nov 12, 2009 at 12:54 PM

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p.1 #11 · Winter Hoverfly

You can see the two o'clock light reflected in the eye, but
only just. . . . incredible diffusion. (second image)
The eye is matt, but three dimensional.

Bruce

Nov 12, 2009 at 01:06 PM

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p.1 #12 · Winter Hoverfly

v.nice,excellent light in no 2

Nov 12, 2009 at 05:17 PM

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p.1 #13 · Winter Hoverfly

Thanks Bruce and Michael

Nov 14, 2009 at 07:02 AM

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p.1 #14 · Winter Hoverfly

Detail is very nice in #2 The pollen on it's eye looks like a hot pixel

Nov 14, 2009 at 08:48 AM

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p.1 #15 · Winter Hoverfly

very nice John, do like the colour. green background light adds to it.

phil

Nov 14, 2009 at 07:14 PM


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