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Boss photos you've taken

Cheers m8.

To be honest, it's also about not just nailing the focus, which is hard with this lens, but there is a small amount of careful editing required to make a photo pop. Cropping is crucial to macro and I have to play around with that to get the result I'm looking for, the rest that gets people looking to want to look and sometimes comment. Believe me, when you see the final result it can be very different from what comes SOOC.

Landscapes and other types of photos can have more latitude because there is more to view than a really significant single part like a bug.

But I love doing my macro. I get a lot of pleasure personally, and moreso if somebody likes the effort.

Paul.
 
I'll give you a quick example. I'll show you 3 photo's that are as taken SOOC and loaded into Photoshop with no editing. The exposures are wrong because of the way light and flash react and the original positioning of the lens is not going to give anything but a record shot... and the last one I nearly didn't bother with because it's lost a bit of detail in the eyes.

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And after I have edited them to the way I want you to see them...

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Paul.
 
Eurasian Blackcap, have to admit I’ve never heard of these, nice little birds

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That`s a female, where did you see her ?

If it was low down and near a patch of nettles / over grown low foliage, she more than likely had a nest near by.

I found a nest by sheer accident a few years back.

The dog had gone into a large patch of nettles in a quiet, semi overgrown area of a park by us and dropped her ball. I went into find it and by sheer fluke found a beautiful Blackcap nest, woven between the stems of a patch of nettles, about a foot off the floor - 4 eggs.

They`ve got a lovely " trill " song.
 

I'll give you a quick example. I'll show you 3 photo's that are as taken SOOC and loaded into Photoshop with no editing. The exposures are wrong because of the way light and flash react and the original positioning of the lens is not going to give anything but a record shot... and the last one I nearly didn't bother with because it's lost a bit of detail in the eyes.

spideryleaf01_4k_1800-X3.jpg


pictwing_1800-X3.jpg


pictwingstart_1800-X3.jpg


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And after I have edited them to the way I want you to see them...

spideryleaf03_4k_1800-X3.jpg


pictwing0_4k_1800-X3.jpg


pictwing1_4k_1800-X3.jpg



Paul.
Not having tried macro myself (though I enjoy looking at the images and learning the set up) I think the thing that remains true throughout photography is the composition.

The position, the background, the ambient light (or lack of) can really make or break the subject.

Your images are so good.
 
I'll give you a quick example. I'll show you 3 photo's that are as taken SOOC and loaded into Photoshop with no editing. The exposures are wrong because of the way light and flash react and the original positioning of the lens is not going to give anything but a record shot... and the last one I nearly didn't bother with because it's lost a bit of detail in the eyes.

spideryleaf01_4k_1800-X3.jpg


pictwing_1800-X3.jpg


pictwingstart_1800-X3.jpg


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And after I have edited them to the way I want you to see them...

spideryleaf03_4k_1800-X3.jpg


pictwing0_4k_1800-X3.jpg


pictwing1_4k_1800-X3.jpg



Paul.
Yes, I use Lightroom
 

On a late night jaunt and inside 2 square feet of the garden, there were 2 spiders and a juvenile/immature flat backed millipede amongst other things I didn't get... But these I did:

I think these are: #1 Lepthyphantes , #2 Eratigena sp. spiderling, and #3, 4 & 5 Polydesmus sp. (could be P.angustus or P.coriaceus).


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Paul.
 


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