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Bug in the garden

Postby aim54x on Sun May 22, 2011 11:37 pm

I was up visiting Greg (Mr Darcy), who was good enough to let me play with all the RRS gear that he owned, and we took a stroll down through his extended backyard armed with macro lenses and flashes.

1:1 is not enough magnification. I have tried to rotate this bugger but it still looks odd...any suggestions?
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Re: Bug in the garden

Postby surenj on Mon May 23, 2011 11:31 am

Cameron, you should be given honorary voting rights in the blue mountains, what with the amount of visiting you do up there. :wink:

I quite like the quality of light in #2 although not a big fan of the cobwebs.

#1 I think the green adds a bit to the image but the bug needs to be framed by the green. Will have a look when I get home.

To get more than 1:1, you could try inverting your 50mm on your macro? (or on your 70-200 perhaps)? Could that be done?
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Re: Bug in the garden

Postby colin_12 on Mon May 23, 2011 11:51 am

OK the insect looks to be a type of fly to me. Nicely focused and lit.
Fungi #1 I have no idea :|
The second fungi looks like a Trametes sp. I like the depth fading with more fungi into the background.
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Re: Bug in the garden

Postby ATJ on Mon May 23, 2011 11:59 am

The insect looks like a robber fly, albeit a very small one if that is 1:1.
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Re: Bug in the garden

Postby aim54x on Mon May 23, 2011 9:54 pm

surenj wrote:Cameron, you should be given honorary voting rights in the blue mountains, what with the amount of visiting you do up there. :wink:

I quite like the quality of light in #2 although not a big fan of the cobwebs.

#1 I think the green adds a bit to the image but the bug needs to be framed by the green. Will have a look when I get home.

To get more than 1:1, you could try inverting your 50mm on your macro? (or on your 70-200 perhaps)? Could that be done?


Hmmm well the on going joke is that i will end up living up there one day, so maybe honorary voting rights wont be necessary. As for more than 1:1 I was thinking about some extension tubes......

ATJ wrote:The insect looks like a robber fly, albeit a very small one if that is 1:1.


You have me thinking there Andrew...it may not be 1:1 I'll have to check the extended exif, for some reason I thought it was 1:1 last night though.

colin_12 wrote:OK the insect looks to be a type of fly to me. Nicely focused and lit.
Fungi #1 I have no idea :|
The second fungi looks like a Trametes sp. I like the depth fading with more fungi into the background.


GASP!!! A fungi that Colin cant ID????
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Re: Bug in the garden

Postby aim54x on Mon May 23, 2011 9:59 pm

EXIF reports that focus distance was 0.56m which means I was not at 1:1.....
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Re: Bug in the garden

Postby biggerry on Mon May 23, 2011 10:17 pm

nice shots cameron, the first looks a bit OOF to me - the second one is cute :)
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