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Yesterday, storm Dudley passed through. It was windy but the worst of it was further north. Tomorrow we will be in the middle of storm Eunice, in the narrow Red zone. Today I went across the road to the church grounds in the morning. As soon as I found my first subject a passer by wanted to chat. Fortunately for me, the ant I had spotted stayed where it was for a good long while and so I did get to photograph it after all. That is the ant in the first three images. I then found the next three in the short period before I got rained off. #5 and #6 were rushing around in the undergrowth and I only got brief glimpses of them as they came into and went out of view several times. I was surprised I got anything at all from them. I went out again in the afternoon and spent quite a long time over there but found almost nothing. #7 was only visible for a few seconds and that was the only shot I got of it. #8 almost didn't get processed, until I realised that there was something unusual about it. Not sure exactly what we are seeing inside the shell. (The shell was rather small.)
I used a Canon EF mount Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and a pair of 2X Kenko teleconverters attached to a Sony A7sii with a Sigma MC-11 EF to Sony E mount adapter, and a Yongnuo YN24EX twin flash with flash heads reversed and firing into a 12 inch (30cm) diameter bowl lined with printer paper over aluminium foil, and a single diffusion layer of artificial silk.
The raw files were processed with PhotoLab, Lightroom and DeNoise AI.
There are 1300 pixel high versions of these and the rest of the images from the session in this album at Flickr.
#1
2015 11 2022_02_17 DSC02384_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
2015 12 2022_02_17 DSC02391_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
2015 22 2022_02_17 DSC02403_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4
2015 31 2022_02_17 DSC02422_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5
2015 36 2022_02_17 DSC02440_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6
2015 37 2022_02_17 DSC02449_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7
2015 39 2022_02_17 DSC02535_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8
2015 43 2022_02_17 DSC02469_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
I used a Canon EF mount Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and a pair of 2X Kenko teleconverters attached to a Sony A7sii with a Sigma MC-11 EF to Sony E mount adapter, and a Yongnuo YN24EX twin flash with flash heads reversed and firing into a 12 inch (30cm) diameter bowl lined with printer paper over aluminium foil, and a single diffusion layer of artificial silk.
The raw files were processed with PhotoLab, Lightroom and DeNoise AI.
There are 1300 pixel high versions of these and the rest of the images from the session in this album at Flickr.
#1
2015 11 2022_02_17 DSC02384_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
2015 12 2022_02_17 DSC02391_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
2015 22 2022_02_17 DSC02403_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4
2015 31 2022_02_17 DSC02422_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5
2015 36 2022_02_17 DSC02440_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6
2015 37 2022_02_17 DSC02449_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7
2015 39 2022_02_17 DSC02535_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8
2015 43 2022_02_17 DSC02469_PLab5 1300h DNAIcMedLo by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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