a summer sun silhouetted sawfly
This is absolutely the last macro image from this summer, and it's one of my most favourite shots of the year so far.
While cutting back some lavender, I spotted some sawflies hovering around it no doubt taking advantage of the unseasonal late summer / early autumn sunshine and warmth. So, instead of cutting it back I left them to their devices while I got my camera.
The resulting image shows, I think anyway, that you don't need all the detail in the world to get a good, story-telling macro shot:
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| Fujifilm X-H2, Laowa 65mm f2.8 Ultra Macro 1/1250th of a second at f4, ISO 125 handheld And just because it's you, here's a bonus shot from earlier that day of a bee with its fully extended proboscis really seeking out the last bit of pollen from a geum also in my garden:
To get the look I wanted (i.e. with the blacked-out background on a really sunny day) I "spot" metered my camera on the brightest part of the flower and also under-exposed the scene by a whole stop, enabling me to get a fast enough shutter speed to create the dark look behind the subject. I was then able in post processing to lift the exposure on the bee and the flower only to bring out all the details in them. -------------------------------------------- Another double video treat for you again. I don't know how I do it, honestly I don't... |
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