Another backlog month completed

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At last I have finished working my way through my August 2015 backlog. (That just leaves April, July and September 2015 to deal with, and June 2014.) These are from the last of the August 2015 sets that I just finished processing.

These were captured with my Panasonic G5 and 45-175 with a close-up lens, probably Canon 500D for some and Raynox 150 for others. They were captured at night, using a Venus Optics KX800 twin flash. The raw files were batch processed in DXO Optics Pro and Silkypix, with image-specific adjustments in Lightroom. They are taken from this album at Flickr.

#1

1135 08 2015_08_28-29 P1080414_DxO 0100RAW01cP SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


#2

1135 12 2015_08_28-29 P1080457_DxO 0100RAW01cP SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


#3

1135 13 2015_08_28-29 P1080469_DxO 0100RAW01cP SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


#4

1135 21 2015_08_28-29 P1080524_DxO 0100RAW01cP SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


#5

1135 24 2015_08_28-29 P1080542_DxO 0100RAW01cP SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


#6

1135 48 2015_08_28-29 P1080784_DxO 0100RAW01cP SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


#7

1135 50 2015_08_28-29 P1080797_DxO 0100RAW01cP SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


#8

1135 61 2015_08_28-29 P1080819_DxO 0100RAW01cP SP7 LR6 1300h-2 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 
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Wow, some really great images there Nick. Well done. Hard to pick a favourite but I do love the first image with the snail. Something about his posture, if you’d call it that. Positioning perhaps, haha. The way it is looking up at you and the crispness of the shot. I love it

The earwig is fantastic closely followed up with the woodlouse imho. Then the Tiger slug? Roaming through his habitat I like.

The spiders aren’t so much grabbing me though the first one is nice especially the detail in the hairs.

Personally I would have left out the 2nd slug shot. Just something about the image doesn’t do much for me. Then there is no accounting for taste an all so as you were.

Great shots though. Nice work.
 
Will.B said:
Wow, some really great images there Nick. Well done. Hard to pick a favourite but I do love the first image with the snail. Something about his posture, if you’d call it that. Positioning perhaps, haha. The way it is looking up at you and the crispness of the shot. I love it

The earwig is fantastic closely followed up with the woodlouse imho. Then the Tiger slug? Roaming through his habitat I like.

The spiders aren’t so much grabbing me though the first one is nice especially the detail in the hairs.

Personally I would have left out the 2nd slug shot. Just something about the image doesn’t do much for me. Then there is no accounting for taste an all so as you were.

Great shots though. Nice work.
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Thanks. "Posture" - "pose" perhaps? But that suggests it isn't moving I think. "Disposition" perhaps? ("the way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things.") Maybe. Not a word that is used that way very often though I imagine.

Interesting about the slugs; I had them the other way round. I wasn't sure about the first one (I have no idea about species btw) because the rear end was out of focus and was nearer than the in-focus rest of the slug (I prefer the out of focus parts of my subjects to be further away than the in-focus parts). Actually, looking at it again I'm not sure I saw this correctly; the grass on the near side of the rear end doesn't look out of focus, so perhaps the rear end is simply less textured than the rest of the animal. Anyway, I was interested in the second one because I've never before seen a slug climbing up a spider's web. It's not very good in terms of clarity/sharpness (not sure that is the right word for something with little by way of detail or edges), so it was more of an "interest" shot for me than a "pretty picture", which is what I more often try for.
 
ChrisA said:
Lovely results - #4 stands out for the colours and the meeting of two species scene.
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Thanks Chris. I had three shots with the springtail in the picture, but each had only some (different) parts of the springtail in focus, and with more and less of the woodlouse in focus too in the three images. That one felt like the best compromise. I really would have preferred just a bit more DOF. In fact, I wondered whether to include that one or not because of the iffy (to my eye) DOF coverage.
 
Yeah I think you're right regarding the slug being less rextured. It's on quite a flat plane or within the same zone of depth of field of that makes sense.
I hadn't really given thought to the fact the 2nd slug was climbing a spiders web and now you mention it that is strange and something I haven't seen before. So yeah I see your point. Makes it well worth documenting.
 
That last shot is totally the biz Nick, you have really hit the nail on the head with that one.
All the rest are fab too and the lighting, well you wouldnt really know they was taken at night time.
Totally awesome shots Nick, Keep working hard on them backlogs :)
 
daguzo said:
Wow, certainly one of the more colourful macro shots I've seen in a long time. Great job !!
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davholla said:
I like the woodlouse once, I almost never see them on leaves, just at the bottom of bricks etc.
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Graham said:
That last shot is totally the biz Nick, you have really hit the nail on the head with that one.
All the rest are fab too and the lighting, well you wouldnt really know they was taken at night time.
Totally awesome shots Nick, Keep working hard on them backlogs :)
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Thanks Daniel, David, Graham. I've finished the backlog now Graham. I suppose I should post a few of them (there are loads!), but to be quite honest I feel a bit burnt out just now - it turned into quite a hard slog, more so than I realised until I finished it I think.
 
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