Wasps and flies on fatsia flowers and choisya leaves

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These were captured hand-held in our garden earlier today using an EF-mount Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and two 2X Kenko teleconverters attached to a Sony A7rii with a Sigma MC-11 EF to E mount adapter, with a Yongnuo 24EX twin flash with flash heads reversed and firing into a 12 inch diameter plastic bowl lined with paper over aluminium foil and a synthetic silk diffusion layer. The raw files were processed with, in order, DXO PhotoLab, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz DeNoise AI.

There are 1300 pixel high versions of these in this album at Flickr.

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Those are very clear pictures of the various creatures, I find the one of the back of the fly particularly striking. Before anyone else asks, what equipment did you use to get these. I have a Nikon 105mm Micro so could probably achieve this but I'm not that experienced with it and end up with no depth of field or ridiculously small apertures, hence my interest.
 
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ShinySideUp said:
Those are very clear pictures of the various creatures, I find the one of the back of the fly particularly striking. Before anyone else asks, what equipment did you use to get these. I have a Nikon 105mm Micro so could probably achieve this but I'm not that experienced with it and end up with no depth of field or ridiculously small apertures, hence my interest.
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Hi Martin, your post crossed with an edit I was making to the top post to include details of the equipment.

I'll be happy to discuss the technique I used, which for these involved the use of f/36 as an experiment (I usually use f/45). Post processing becomes quite important with small apertures like this, so we can discuss that too if you would like to.
 
Your description of what you have done is fine, thank you. I just need more practice -- and a few patient insects :)
 
Very nice Nick.
Great detail as always :)
 
I would love to be able to take images like these. Thank you for the very clear explanation - it will help me on the way.
 
Don153 said:
I would love to be able to take images like these. Thank you for the very clear explanation - it will help me on the way.
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I think close-up/macro is quite difficult, especially with active subjects like these. There is a lot to get to grips with. I find I need to experiment a lot, and practice, practice, practice. I haven't done any photography for 6 weeks or more, and I really noticed the difference yesterday.
 
Beautiful set Nick - I wish I could get macro like those


Les :)
 
Paul Iddon said:
Winter coming too Nick will slow us down. I've tried a fair few night excursions to get some pics recently!

Lovely set btw.

Paul.
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Thanks Paul.
I haven't done a night time session for some years now, since the police turned up one night to investigate what was going on after a call from a neighbour about mysterious flashes which happened to follow on from some unexplained banging/explosive-type noises (that I heard too, but were elsewhere).
 
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