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Had another brightish but overcast day the other day, so took the opportunity to do some natural light shots.
ISO400 Tv mode 1/200th some shots are focus stacked.

Brian V.
May 07, 2007 at 02:00 AM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · More natural light macros


Nice shots Lord V

Just a quick question,
What is focus stacked?


May 07, 2007 at 03:55 AM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · More natural light macros


Thanks Adam,
Focus stacking is a technique to increase the DOF in a pic by combining pics taken at different focus depths.
see http://www.flickr.com/groups/macroviewers/discuss/163367/ for more info.
Brian V.
May 07, 2007 at 04:04 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · More natural light macros


Thanks again
May 07, 2007 at 04:18 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · More natural light macros


Excellent shots Brian, the natural light is great.
May 07, 2007 at 05:14 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · More natural light macros


Wonderful!
I think that learning to use natural light and using it well (as you have shown) is absolute key to many of the more natural looking macros that we see today.
I will use both natural and artificial, ... but natural lighting always appeals to me more.
A matter of taste I guess!

This is cool stuff dude!!
May 07, 2007 at 09:39 AM
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Very nice shots! I like the peculiar bee-like fly (#3), and the next fly (#4) is very well done too. Natural light looks a little better than flash - it's softer. I wonder what aperture you could get here? When I tried, I could get only about f7-f8 with 1:1 magnification, even in good sunlight. I didn't like those results very much, so tried turning the flash on anyway, set to -1/2 stops.


May 07, 2007 at 10:59 AM
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Beautiful shots. The last one is my fav.
May 07, 2007 at 11:22 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · More natural light macros


Amazing shots Brian, the first is my favourite by far. Incredible detail! Whats your setup fand technique or that shot? I assume it was focus stacked?
May 07, 2007 at 11:29 AM
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coder wrote:
Excellent shots Brian, the natural light is great.
Thanks coder
I'm beginning to appreciate natural light more
Brian V.
May 07, 2007 at 01:20 PM
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Michael B. wrote:
Wonderful!
I think that learning to use natural light and using it well (as you have shown) is absolute key to many of the more natural looking macros that we see today.
I will use both natural and artificial, ... but natural lighting always appeals to me more.
A matter of taste I guess!

This is cool stuff dude!!

Thanks for the comments Michael, I'm beginning to appreciate natural light more although as you imply I do always try to get a fair amount of natural light in my flash shots if possible.
Brian V.
May 07, 2007 at 01:24 PM
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Igor Shuryak wrote:
Very nice shots! I like the peculiar bee-like fly (#3), and the next fly (#4) is very well done too. Natural light looks a little better than flash - it's softer. I wonder what aperture you could get here? When I tried, I could get only about f7-f8 with 1:1 magnification, even in good sunlight. I didn't like those results very much, so tried turning the flash on anyway, set to -1/2 stops.
Thanks Igor
Apertures were from F5 to f7.1 but many of the shots are focus stacked to make up the DOF. Think as I've said I don't like doing natural light shots of bugs in strong sunlight- the contrast and reflections are too much.
BTW #3 is a hoverfly- lesser bulb fly, Eumerus sp.

Brian V.
May 07, 2007 at 01:31 PM
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Seth Tower wrote:
Beautiful shots. The last one is my fav.
Thanks Seth
Brian v.
May 07, 2007 at 01:33 PM
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Stan Otokpa wrote:
Amazing shots Brian, the first is my favourite by far. Incredible detail! Whats your setup fand technique or that shot? I assume it was focus stacked?

Thanks Stan
I was using my 350D and sigma 105mm Ex with 33mm of ext tubes. Camera in Tv mode 1/200th, -2/3 EC shots taken at F6.3. Yes the damselfly pic is hand focus stacked from two shots. Nothing else used apart from my bean pole that I use to help stabilise the camera.

Brian V.
May 07, 2007 at 01:37 PM
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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · More natural light macros


Very nice Brian. My kind of lighting also.
May 07, 2007 at 07:02 PM
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You be the man for sure! Your macro work is an inspiration to me LordV!
May 08, 2007 at 12:11 AM
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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · More natural light macros


nice, I like the damsel
May 08, 2007 at 01:08 AM
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JohnnyGCanon wrote:
You be the man for sure! Your macro work is an inspiration to me LordV!

Thanks for the very kind comment JohhnyG
There's lots of superb macro shooters on this forum many of which I get inspiration from
Brian V.
May 08, 2007 at 01:11 AM
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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · More natural light macros


Thanks Brad and Nick for looking and commenting
I'm still working on partial sunshades so I can get the right light even in bright sunlight
Brian V.
May 08, 2007 at 01:15 AM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · More natural light macros


Just great pics.
May 08, 2007 at 01:14 PM
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