Macro Insects in Asia. by Gary Bridger

Macro Wildlife Photography.

A small Collection of some of the beauty and ugliness of the macro world that I see through my DSLR.

One of the most common  photographs see everywhere now. Is the same approach where photographer's read back in the 80s An article that if you sprayed a living object, like a flower when doing macro, it gave life to the subject. Thats been taken to the extreme in todays macro world. It does not look natural, How many photographs do you see of dragon flies and flowers covered in droplets of water. If you going to do that , then get it right. So it looks like rain drops, Or mist.

I will show samples of this later, I hardly if at all use water spray. One reason If your subject is in bright sunlight, Droplets and scorch or damage the subject, Normally it will fly away. Or as a bonus, Start to clean itself. Then you go into movie mode. 

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60mm macro flash

60mm macro soft off flash 

60mm 400d flash 

60mm 400 d flash

60mm flash

60mm 30d ring flash 

60mm ring flash 7d

60mm ring flash and off flash 7d 

60mm off flash 7d

60mm off flash 7d

70-200 & 200 mm 7d 

60mm flash 7d 

60mm flash 7d

60mm flash 7d

60mm flash 7d

60mm flash 7d

200 mm cropped 

60 mm 

This crystal is a sugar grain taken with + 3 extension and 60 mm ring flash 

60mm off flash 7d Side of subject about 8mm 

Still not ID this insect, 60mm ring flash. 

60mm macro day light, ISO 800 

60 mm 

60mm off soft flash 

60mm 

60mm ring flash

60mm daylight. 

One reason for keeping focus shallow, is to avoid cluttered backgrounds Depth is good for keeping all the subject in focus, Nowadays you can use photo stacking that allows you to layer photos of the same subject at different focus, Providing the subject is still!