John K

All too true...

I've got over 3000 images on the site and I haven't had many issues. I see the "Oops, Bad Panda" screen a lot less these days than before Smug Mug took...

Thanks!

This "movie poster" composition is stuck in my head. I shot this European Wool Carder Bee horizontally but framed it for a vertical composition (I turned the shot 90 degrees in post). Easier than ...

Beautiful set Mark! I shoot a lot of European Wool Carder Bees here, and as they age I notice that they lose hair, and it sometimes goes grey. Are you seeing the same thing with the BBBs?

Take another look at your photo in the OP. It's a European Wool Carder (they are in the States now). No way that's a honeybee. This is a honeybee, and the eyes and mandibles are completely different:

TS's work was resonating with people who were not into macro because his photos are well lit and composed, unlike the razor sharp garbage you see posted all over forums today. Right now there's a ...

Looks like a European Wool Carder Bee, there are about six of them patrolling my Lavender. Haven't tried shooting them in flight, but I do take a few shots above 1x. It's been so warm here that ...

When Nat Geo published a couple of his shots they were for some back of the mag sidebar pieces, so they were small enough not to look pixelated. Me thinks that the editors knew that they wouldn't ...

LMAO! No need to PM you my friend... :) I think that he single highhandedly set macro back a decade or more. There hasn't been another macro photographer featured the way that he was since. Edit: I ...

That mentality works until your photos get popular and suddenly those cropped images end up getting printed. I know of a pretty well known macro shooter who got published in Popular Photography ...

Called apparent light size . <--That article at Strobist was a game changer for me. It explained a lot of the issues I was having shooting flash macro with a 100mm macro lens. Too much working ...

Here's the review I tried polarizers many moons ago. Yes, they will cut out the hot spot, but they'll also drop the light out from the flash by two full stops and to me the colors were off.

This is the only diffuser I know of and if memory serves me correctly it didn't cut the hot spot out of the MT-24EX. Not the diffuser's fault though, the MT-24 doesn't really have a built in ...

Thanks! Over 10 years of shooting macro, and thousands of frames, have built up a lot of muscle memory.

Thanks, and happy to help :)

Cool :)

Great compositions on that orange faced jumper! I think that the first frame is a little too dark.