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I had a brief look around in the garden last night. Not much around, but I found a springtail - and failed miserably with it even though it was one of the easier (larger, cylindrical) ones and wasn't moving around (although the bush it was on was moving. But that wasn't the problem. Even the ones that were in focus weren't very good. I need to work on that).
Anyway, I found some larger, easier subjects, much more my type of thing.
These images were captured with my FZ200 with Raynox 150, and KX800 twin flash. They were processed in DXO Optics Pro and Lightroom. These are taken from this album at Flickr.
I cheated with the first two. There were horrible highlight patches on the earwig's head. I cloned them out.
1 This earwig was a nice size, but but it was in a rather difficult to get at and difficult to illuminate position. The bendy arms on the KX800 were very useful, but I couldn't get the focusing light to play on the subject even though it too is on a flexible arm.
0811 02 2016_02_03 P1170923_DxO LR 1300h-2 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
2 I don't think it liked the light. It moved after the first couple of shots. It didn't move far and was, just, still get atable.
0811 03 2016_02_03 P1170924_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
3 These woodlice were on the front face of a piece of wood at ground level with a top down view of the scene blocked by branches, so I could only capture images head on (i.e. top down from the perspective of the subjects) . I followed this one briefly as it wandered around until it disappeared from view.
0811 06 2016_02_03 P1170974_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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0811 08 2016_02_03 P1170976_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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0811 09 2016_02_03 P1170977_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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0811 10 2016_02_03 P1170978_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
7 This was one of the smaller ones the big one was wandering amongst.
0811 13 2016_02_03 P1170990_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
8 This is the nearest I could get to a side view of any of them. The camera was jammed up against the edge of a shed, one of the diffusers getting a bit crushed. Luckily they are proving to be quite resilient, and easy to mend when necessary.
0811 16 2016_02_03 P1170999_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
Anyway, I found some larger, easier subjects, much more my type of thing.
These images were captured with my FZ200 with Raynox 150, and KX800 twin flash. They were processed in DXO Optics Pro and Lightroom. These are taken from this album at Flickr.
I cheated with the first two. There were horrible highlight patches on the earwig's head. I cloned them out.
1 This earwig was a nice size, but but it was in a rather difficult to get at and difficult to illuminate position. The bendy arms on the KX800 were very useful, but I couldn't get the focusing light to play on the subject even though it too is on a flexible arm.
0811 02 2016_02_03 P1170923_DxO LR 1300h-2 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
2 I don't think it liked the light. It moved after the first couple of shots. It didn't move far and was, just, still get atable.
0811 03 2016_02_03 P1170924_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
3 These woodlice were on the front face of a piece of wood at ground level with a top down view of the scene blocked by branches, so I could only capture images head on (i.e. top down from the perspective of the subjects) . I followed this one briefly as it wandered around until it disappeared from view.
0811 06 2016_02_03 P1170974_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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0811 08 2016_02_03 P1170976_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
5
0811 09 2016_02_03 P1170977_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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0811 10 2016_02_03 P1170978_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
7 This was one of the smaller ones the big one was wandering amongst.
0811 13 2016_02_03 P1170990_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
8 This is the nearest I could get to a side view of any of them. The camera was jammed up against the edge of a shed, one of the diffusers getting a bit crushed. Luckily they are proving to be quite resilient, and easy to mend when necessary.
0811 16 2016_02_03 P1170999_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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