On last night’s dog walk I came across a large group of Common Spotted Orchids all sitting under a very large gorse bush. Here’s just one caught with the Canon 5D MkII and the Canon 100mm macro lens.
Common Spotted Orchid
Category Archives: Macrophotography
A focus-stacked image of a complete Hornet
This Hornet was found dead in front of the living room window one morning. Glad it didn’t lose its temper while we were sitting down watching the box! The wings on this one are 25mm (1-inch) long to give you an idea of scale – these are BIG beasties. Far too big to go under the microscope even at the lowest magnification, this subject needed a different technique. So out came the Canon 100mm macro lens and I manually focussed from the top to the bottom of the subject taking frames as I moved down in focus. Altogether 18-frames were taken and I stacked them together using the truly remarkable Helicon Focus software. Pretty acceptable result though I could take a little more care over the illumination 🙂
Comfrey – a Bee magnet
We brought back a bunch of Comfrey from the allotment to put in the garden as it was clearly a powerful Bee magnet. It’s kept in a pot as it seems to be pretty invasive. However – true to form – along come the Bees who seem to find this plant irresistible.
Some more insect macros from yesterday in the garden
A couple of hoverflies and a Red Admiral visited the garden yesterday 🙂
It’s a beautiful sunny day in Brockenhurst – it’s macro time – it’s BEE TIME again!
An obliging model for the flower:
……..by any other name…………
And to finish the day, another macro, a Dandelion seed-head
A macro of a Dandelion seed head using the Canon 5D MkII and Canon 100mm macro lens.
Green-Winged Orchid macrographed in a local garden
The Green-Winged Orchids are now at their very best in the New Forest, and this particular specimen was photographed in a local garden using the Canon 5D MkII and Canon 100mm macro lens with ring-flash. Manual settings ISO100, f#22, 1/200 second, and ring-flash on +3. Bit breezy today was the main reason for using 1/200 second.
Macrophoto of a pine cone f#22 plus ring-flash
A second experiment on this rainy day – this time some macro work (rather than micro).
A pine cone at f#22 using the Canon 5D MkII and the Canon 100mm macro lens, plus ring-flash.
First insect macro shot in the garden this year.
Beautiful sunny day today so took the Canon 100mm macro out into the garden to see what I could find. Plenty of these little gals about which was great.
