Some more night shots

[GardenersHelper]

The images in this first post were captured with a Raynox MSN-505 on my Panasonic G5 to test out the use of a small additional (convex) diffuser attached to the lens. (This is written up in this post in my Journey thread. The images of the larger subjects in the second post were captured with a Raynox 250 on the G5. All the shots were captured hand-held using autofocus, using my Shallow Hybrid diffusers.

1 Yes, it was this way up. It was on a wall directly in front of me. And yes, I've tried rotating it. And no, I didn't like it that way round - it didn't look right. Something about the lighting perhaps, I don't know.

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2 And this one is the right way round too! It had moved.

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[GardenersHelper]

These were captured using a Raynox 250.

6 Wood lice (or at least the ones in our garden) come out at night but don't seem to like having a light shone at them. This one was completely still when I arrived.

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7 Quite soon it stirred ...

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8 ... then started to move ...

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9 ... and off it went ...

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10 ... scuttling away into the dark and out of sight ...

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... so I had to look for other things.

11 I rather liked the look of this slug. It was quite small.

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[Tintin124]

Amazing Nick .... highlights in #2 are a little hot, but that critter is one of the hardest bugs I've ever shot so bronze and reflective.

slight clip of leg in #1 but who cares its great.

and last one with a compact is mentally good crisp sharp focus where it needs to be

 

[ChrisA]

Number 5 for me is very interesting, the minimal depth of focus makes it a different and intriguing springtail shot.

 

[Carlh]

Very cool shots Nick, DOF is fantastic - they look almost like stacked images

 

[GardenersHelper]

Amazing Nick .... highlights in #2 are a little hot, but that critter is one of the hardest bugs I've ever shot so bronze and reflective.

slight clip of leg in #1 but who cares its great.

and last one with a compact is mentally good crisp sharp focus where it needs to be

Thanks Bryn. That bronze one didn't seem too bad to me. (After PP) it looked much better than I can ever get a ladybird to look for example. I think ladybirds and slugs are probably the most difficult little animals that I photograph.

Number 5 for me is very interesting, the minimal depth of focus makes it a different and intriguing springtail shot.

Thanks Chris. I always wonder with shots like that whether to post them or not (which I usually don't, not even to Flickr, let alone here). Such narrow depth of focus generally seems rather iffy to me, and asks for stacking, but I still haven't got round to doing much of that yet.

Very cool shots Nick, DOF is fantastic - they look almost like stacked images

Thanks Carl. I like the DOF comment! As you know I do like to get as much DOF as I can.