These should be the first live shots (at least to my knowledge) of a Pentachrysis sp., probably P. seminigra.
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Canon 6D with a MP-E 65 at around f:10, and a Meike Mk300 flash with a "John Hallmén"-pattern ice cream box diffuserdolmadis wrote: What kit settings etc., did you use?
Thanks!hayath wrote:Rich color and detail!
Loved #2
Thanks for your feedback, I agree totally! I tried doing hand held stacks to improve the depth of focus, turns out it's really really hard, especially with moving critters. In hindsight I should have used a lower magnification and perhaps a bit higher f:stop (although I think I was well into diffraction-land already), to get better focus depth and trade it off with some image cropping. As it is now I have choose if I want the eye closest to the camera to be sharp and nothing else, or the far eye and some of the body, so I tend to chose the latter.Lou Jost wrote:These are beautiful. If I could make some constructive criticism, though, the eyes are out of focus in nearly every one. It looks like you just barely missed getting them in focus. The eye shaprness is psychologically important; the unsharp eye gives an impression of overall unsharpness even though much of the body is perfectly sharp. If you could ensure that the eye facing the viewer were sharp (and I know this can be very hard in the field with moving bugs), the pictures would look better.
It might even be worth using a slightly smaller aperture, trading off a bit of resolution for added depth of field, if it proves too difficult to get the eye in focus with your current settings.