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Wasp with evening snack

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Wasp with evening snack
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Last evening I saw this small wasp on a cherry laurel leaf munching happily away on a smaller insect:

A quite hairy beast, isn't it?

Uncropped picture taken with a 60mm macro lens on a 2x teleconverter. Light comes from a very compact flash diffusor panel that I recently got; it attaches directly to the hood bayonet of the lens. Considering it's compact size diffusion results are really OK IMO.  Complete setup using a single Godox MF12 on a Godox trigger looks like this:

Because of the low guide number of the MF12 I have to crank up the ISO to 640 though if I want to use apertures like f11 for maximizing DOF as I did here. Will experiment further with other more powerful flashes, but like my first results so far.

Phil

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