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Between two storms

Started Feb 17, 2022 | Discussions
gardenersassistant Veteran Member • Posts: 9,656
Between two storms
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Yesterday, storm Dudley passed through. It was windy but the worst of it was further north. Tomorrow we will be in the middle of storm Eunice, in the narrow Red zone. Today I went across the road to the church grounds in the morning. As soon as I found my first subject a passer by wanted to chat. Fortunately for me, the ant I had spotted stayed where it was for a good long while and so I did get to photograph it after all. That is the ant in the first three images. I then found the next three in the short period before I got rained off. #5 and #6 were rushing around in the undergrowth and I only got brief glimpses of them as they came into and went out of view several times. I was surprised I got anything at all from them. I went out again in the afternoon and spent quite a long time over there but found almost nothing. #7 was only visible for a few seconds and that was the only shot I got of it. #8 almost didn't get processed, until I realised that there was something unusual about it. Not sure exactly what we are seeing inside the shell. (The shell was rather small.)

I used a Canon EF mount Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and a pair of 2X Kenko teleconverters attached to a Sony A7sii with a Sigma MC-11 EF to Sony E mount adapter, and a Yongnuo YN24EX twin flash with flash heads reversed and firing into a 12 inch (30cm) diameter bowl lined with printer paper over aluminium foil, and a single diffusion layer of artificial silk.

The raw files were processed with PhotoLab, Lightroom and DeNoise AI.

The rest of the images from the session are in this album at Flickr.

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John K Veteran Member • Posts: 9,870
Re: Between two storms

Excellent set!

Been trying to get some shooting in myself but the weather is definitely not cooperating.

er1ckrivas New Member • Posts: 1
Re: Between two storms

I see you are using nearly the setup I am trying to pull off, but I am unsure about this unless you can help me out here to clarify.

I am trying to use the lens Laowa 100mm 2x EF (autoaperture) for Canon, on a Sony A7iii with either the MC11 or Metabones Adaptor to Sony E , but as I am reading some related threads I am afraid of these:

1. Will the Auto-aperture still be available with any of the adaptors?

2. does the 1:1 ratio show as full-frame or does it show it as ASPC (cropped sensor)?

3. Does DMF, and focus peaking work fine electronically well even with any of these adaptors?

macrouser
macrouser Senior Member • Posts: 3,979
Re: Between two storms

I really like to see your photos.

The black fly looks like it could be a leaf miner fly.

The spring tail is great.  I have been very surprised to learn there are hundreds of species of spring tail.

We had some I think were mating in some rain water in a bowl.

The bowl was a red micro wave container.

I think the eggs may be mosquito eggs.  The red insect is a beetle.

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Gary from Seattle Veteran Member • Posts: 7,852
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macrouser wrote:

I really like to see your photos.

It was posted here some months ago that gardnersassistant (Nick) passed away.

The black fly looks like it could be a leaf miner fly.

The spring tail is great. I have been very surprised to learn there are hundreds of species of spring tail.

We had some I think were mating in some rain water in a bowl.

The bowl was a red micro wave container.

I think the eggs may be mosquito eggs. The red insect is a beetle.

 Gary from Seattle's gear list:Gary from Seattle's gear list
Olympus E-M1 Olympus E-M1 II Olympus OM-D E-M1X Olympus Zuiko Digital 1.4x Teleconverter EC-14 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm 1:4.8-6.7 +7 more
macrouser
macrouser Senior Member • Posts: 3,979
Re: Between two storms

Thanks for letting me know.

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Sony SLT-A77 Sony a7R III Sigma 150mm F2.8 EX DG Macro HSM Sony FE 90mm F2.8 macro Sony FE 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 G OSS +2 more
3D Gunner Senior Member • Posts: 1,025
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This is very sad news. 😔

I love his photos and the variety of subjects.

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