Comma and Hoverfly, mid May last year

[GardenersHelper]

I'm continuing to dip into my processing backlog pretty much at random. I used my FZ200 most of the time last year for invertebrates, but these were captured on a sunny day when I was in the garden photographing flowers with my 70D and 55-250 STM and happened upon these two subjects along the way.

These are all natural light, hand-held raw captures. I might have used the Canon 500D close-up lens for one or more of the first four, or used just the bare 55-250. I probably used the 500D for the second four, although I might have used the Raynox 150.

Post processing was in DXO Optics Pro 10 and Lightroom 6.

Because of a bug in Lightroom (which I have now found out how to work around) the Exif data is missing from these JPEGs, so I've listed the exposure data for each image.

1 ISO 400, f/9, 1/500 sec

0807 10 2015_04_09 IMG_6147_DxO_MC15 LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

2 ISO 400, f/13, 1/320 sec

0807 15 2015_04_09 IMG_6151_DxO_MC15 LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

3 ISO 400, f/18, 1/100 sec

0807 16 2015_04_09 IMG_6160_DxO_MC15 LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

4 ISO 400, f/18, 1/160 sec

0807 19 2015_04_09 IMG_6165_DxO_MC15 LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

5 ISO 1600, f/26, 1/100 sec

0807 22 2015_04_09 IMG_6215_DxO_MC15 LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

6 ISO 1600, f/28, 1/80 sec

0807 21 2015_04_09 IMG_6211_DxO_MC15 LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

7 ISO 2000, f/28, 1/80 sec

0807 24 2015_04_09 IMG_6218_DxO_MC15 LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

8 ISO 2000, f/11, 1/500 sec

0807 25 2015_04_09 IMG_6234_DxO_MC15 LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

 

[G.K.Jnr.]

These are very nice images Nick, as usual spot on exposure & composition with excellent colour. #5 & #6 are lost a little bit in the background by blending in with the foliage etc, but obviously there's nothing you could of done about that. Thanks for showing them.

George.

 

[GardenersHelper]

These are very nice images Nick, as usual spot on exposure & composition with excellent colour. #5 & #6 are lost a little bit in the background by blending in with the foliage etc, but obviously there's nothing you could of done about that. Thanks for showing them.

George.

Thanks George.

For better or worse, I think I have a bit of a weakness for "busy background" shots. (I seem to remember having several conversations with Bryn @Tintin124 about that.)

 

[plamen_gb]

Very nice shots, the only thing I would also say is the background, though I imagine you can't really force it so great job!