derek897

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derek897
coker wrote:
Superb photographs, Derek, especially the weevils.

Do you have a pic of your diffuser set-up please?

Roger
My rig is usually 52mm tubes, 105mm macro lens, viltrox ringflash, homemade diffuser.
Made up with plastic mixing bowl. Bottom cut out. Outside painted black. Inside painted white. 
Then taped to the ringflash
Empty coffee tin (well known brand) cut in half and fitted into centerof rinflash as a hood to cut back flare. 
White foamy packaging aroud that to diffuse the light.

Looks monstrous but it's light and it works.
I might just glue them together instead of taping, as I can't see myself using the ringflash without it.

Hope this helps

Derek

Comment by derek897 posted on Bugs at 05/05/2017 - 18:13

derek897
coker wrote:
Superb photographs, Derek, especially the weevils.

Do you have a pic of your diffuser set-up please?

Roger
I hope you are ready for this

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Comment by derek897 posted on Bugs at 05/05/2017 - 17:47

derek897
davidwozhere wrote:
Based on your photos I have finally ordered a large soft box to hand hold a flash and will also be getting wet and muddy knees before long !
Cant wait to see your results, I only have the ring flash so cant go off camera.

Comment by derek897 posted on Bugs at 05/05/2017 - 09:12

derek897
Cracking set, just super.

Comment by derek897 posted on Bempton Cliffs 2017 at 05/05/2017 - 09:10

derek897
NeilP wrote:
Nice set.

Not sure if you want IDs, but the beetle is a nettle weevil and the yellow fly is a yellow dung fly. The spider is a wolf spider of some kind (possibly Pardosa sp.)
Cheers Neill, ill always take IDs so 5hamk you for that
Cheers
Derek

Comment by derek897 posted on Bugs at 04/05/2017 - 23:22

derek897
Cheers Nigel, Nigel, Gareth, I am enjoying the added possibilities that the flash has opened up for me. Loving getting down low and ending up with wet mucky knees

Comment by derek897 posted on Bugs at 04/05/2017 - 22:16

derek897
Cheers guys, nearly forgot about this one

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Comment by derek897 posted on Bugs at 04/05/2017 - 19:04

derek897
On a bit of a bug bender at the minute, so here are a few from today.
Usual setup.

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Comment by derek897 posted on Bugs at 04/05/2017 - 16:31

derek897
Youre grand, even if you were trying to, it wouldnt have offended me.

Its odd as it reads f2.8 as f1.2 but also registers every point in between 1.2 and 2.8
So there is 1.2-1.3-1.4-1.5-1.6. And so on ........
So i have started using the aperture ring again just so i know what im using, but not that id remember for a particular shot.

Comment by derek897 posted on Neighbours garden macros at 03/05/2017 - 16:36

derek897
Cheers guys

Comment by derek897 posted on Neighbours garden macros at 03/05/2017 - 14:58

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