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Really awesome shots on this page! Joel, you are really good with using the textures using your PS magic! I like the one you chose alot!
@Lisa - Love the bleeding hearts shot! I wish my hearts would have cooperated more and all faced front but it was way to windy!
Some backyard bugs.
Took these hand held with Canon 180mm f/3.5 macro.
(The Lady Bug was on a table cloth on our deck and I think it is deceased)
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Wow Joel! Those are amazing!! The details are stunning! My favorite is the creepy spider!! The colors in the web are too cool and all the hair on it's legs...creepy!! ( in a good kind of way)
Joel, great looking spider! Is that a baby garden spider? Damsel fly looks pretty cool also!
Captured a damsel myself. I only had natural light on this guy as I had the the 300mm with tc. I had to crop, but turned out ok for my liking.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c...24347 copy.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H...24356 copy.jpg
Awesome shots, Jayson! Very sharp, nice detail and the lighting is perfect!
Thanks Lisa and Jayson, I appreciate the nice comments.
Jayson, I don't know what kind of spider it is. I am new to the world of macro photography so I am not very knowledgeable about insect and spider identification.
BTW, the Damsel fly was natural light, the other 3 were with a single 430 EXII flash on a Wimberly flash extension bracket.
Image of a rose treated with Pixel Bender and Topaz Adjust filters
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....48151795-5.jpg
Lovely roses Joel. I am not sure of the technical name, but I thought it looked like a baby garden spider. They grow up to be very large with Yellow stuff on their abdomen. Something like this.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-r...8_29_20847.jpghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s...8_29_20862.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Z...8_27_20810.jpg
I finally had a chance to do some macro photography the last couple of days and getting some things processed. Here is a fly from today. This image was natural light since it was cloudy all day. Stacked from 9 photos. I have done it a couple times now, but figured out a better process and it really works well. I used CS5 and moved the files to photoshop as layers via bridge from the tools menu. Then I used auto-align layers from the edit menu to get the fly lined up since not all of the photos were perfectly centered. Next used the auto-blend function from the edit menu and cropped the resulting photo. Worked much easier than my last process. I shoot most of my macro shots handheld and this is going to be my new process as it worked so flawlessly on the three pictures I processed this evening. Each had more than 5, but less than 10, images.
Here is the resulting shot followed by the others.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-7...acked copy.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Z...24434 copy.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H...24435 copy.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J...24436 copy.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...24437 copy.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...24438 copy.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...24439 copy.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...24440 copy.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...24441 copy.jpghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3...24442 copy.jpg
Here are the other two photos I stacked tonight. First one was 9 images and not cropped. Second one was 5.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...ked%20copy.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...202%20copy.jpg