Just some bugs
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Just some bugs
Made some bug shots 2 weeks ago, just got to proces them today. All where shot with a Canon 350D, Sigma 105 2.8 macro and a Speedlite 430EX with a lumiquest softbox. The settings were: ISO100, F13, 1/200
I have been hunting this kind of butterfly for ages, but it just wouldnt sit still. But finally one was hungry enough to just ignore the moron with the camera
Finally spotted a Dragonfly too and this one probably had seen more than enough photographers allready and just couldnt be bothered by me
And a spider, because spiders are cool
Thanks for looking
Greetz Daan
I have been hunting this kind of butterfly for ages, but it just wouldnt sit still. But finally one was hungry enough to just ignore the moron with the camera
Finally spotted a Dragonfly too and this one probably had seen more than enough photographers allready and just couldnt be bothered by me
And a spider, because spiders are cool
Thanks for looking
Greetz Daan
Re: Just some bugs
Amen brother!!doenoe wrote:And a spider, because spiders are cool
I'm guessing that's a Garden Orb but they usually abandon their web to hide during the day time... Unless that's a night time shot with an off-camera flash. As Ken said, very sharp indeed. Did you do any sharpening in Photoshop?
Thanks for the comments everyone
I always use the unsharp mask in Photoshop. Since i shoot RAW, the camera doesnt do anything to the pic. So i have to do it myself.
Most of the times its cropping, levels, brightness/contrast, saturation, resize, unsharp mask.
Here is another picture of the same spider. But this time you can see its body. He is trying to get a leave out of its web. It was shot in daytime on a very sunny day.
I always use the unsharp mask in Photoshop. Since i shoot RAW, the camera doesnt do anything to the pic. So i have to do it myself.
Most of the times its cropping, levels, brightness/contrast, saturation, resize, unsharp mask.
Here is another picture of the same spider. But this time you can see its body. He is trying to get a leave out of its web. It was shot in daytime on a very sunny day.
I really like the first two, the butterfly because the wings fill up 2/3 on one side and the flower does the job on the other making the weighting very nice, especially so for a flash photo.
The dragonfly portrait is great just because it fills the frame so nicely and those things are real swines to get nicely composed.
tim
The dragonfly portrait is great just because it fills the frame so nicely and those things are real swines to get nicely composed.
tim
Thank you
im pretty happy with the butterfly pic too. Was the first white one i shot this year. Those things never sit still.
The dragonfly was pretty easy actually. I just moved very slowly and it just stayed put. Only flew away once and then it came back to the same spot. Was really suprised that it let me get that close though.
im pretty happy with the butterfly pic too. Was the first white one i shot this year. Those things never sit still.
The dragonfly was pretty easy actually. I just moved very slowly and it just stayed put. Only flew away once and then it came back to the same spot. Was really suprised that it let me get that close though.
Beautiful! Would you please tell me if those signed borders done in Photoshop as well? I am trying add my name to shots I may post or send around and the only thing I see in photoshop is something called, digimarc, which must be purchased -nt a problem, but the trial seemed rather convoluted, the image had to be saved as a gif first.
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Sorry for the late reply Albert, i totally missed your post.
But if you didnt find out yet, the border is done in PS. It pretty easy to do actually. Just do a search for "Photoshop border" (or something along those lines) on Google and you will get tons of information.
In photoshop you can make an Action from it, so you dont have to do all the steps on every pic you want to have a border. You just click on the start button and voila, a border.
But if you didnt find out yet, the border is done in PS. It pretty easy to do actually. Just do a search for "Photoshop border" (or something along those lines) on Google and you will get tons of information.
In photoshop you can make an Action from it, so you dont have to do all the steps on every pic you want to have a border. You just click on the start button and voila, a border.