Botanic Gardens Episode II

[Tweek]

Taken with c700uz, external flash Vivitar 285HV card bounced, F8. Shutter speed varies from 1/200s to 1/400s.

 

[Tweek]

 

[megaweb]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

super nice !

 

[siron]

Wow...u are as good as the insect king liao!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[tomshen]

:thumbsup: Like the 3rd one!

 

[Fred]

Wow!!! Very Nice :thumbsup:

 

[azone]

Great shots again! The damselfly shot is very good!

 

[isomers007]

:thumbsup:

 

[shev]

thumbs up!:thumbsup:

 

[Tweek]

thanks very much everyone for the encouragement.

 

[Goose]

Great shots tweek!!! :thumbsup:

 

[revenant]

Nice one, Tweek :thumbsup:

How does a external flash Vivitar 285HV card bounced looks like huh?

Sorry for offtopic-ing.

 

[extreme2]

:gbounce: :rbounce: :thumbsup:

 

[Klause]

Good pictures. Good colour and sharpness. A very good set of macro indeed. :thumbsup:

 

[afiend]

Wow very good and close up!
Well done Tweek, nice shots there...

 

[Tweek]

Thanks again for all the nice comments.

Originally posted by revenant
How does a external flash Vivitar 285HV card bounced looks like huh?

revenant, my flash setup looks like the below:

I just attach a white card to the top of the flash head using velcro, and the card is inclined at 45 degrees to the flash head. When taking the macros, sometimes I will detach the flash from the bracket so that I can position it at more desirable places, esp when the area is constraint.

 

[snowparang]

wee kai, you using any close up filters? Can't imagine you being so close to the insects and not frightening them off....or is it the 10x zoom of c700?

 

[Tweek]

Originally posted by snowparang
wee kai, you using any close up filters? Can't imagine you being so close to the insects and not frightening them off....or is it the 10x zoom of c700?

confession time: the ant pic is cropped, but the rest of the pics here are uncropped. Yup I was using close-up +4 filter, and that coupled with the 380mm focal length of the c700uz could get me such magnifications.

In fact, the insects were very proned to being scared off by my proximity, it takes some time to learn how to approach them tactically, and where to position oneself, and what is the threshold closest distance I can approach them without scaring them off.

 

[Ling Nightsky]

all of the pictures are really nice... i like the first one better though

 

[Kho King]

super sharp! Any tripod used? Can't imagine going that close...whithout blur. Is it because of the flash that freeze the photo?