Wednesday 4 April 2012

Tuesday 3 April 2012

Golden Ratio

A snail shell works out to be a perfect golden section/ratio (especially if I'd cropped to exagerate it). Nature once again doing it's thing...

105mm 1/250s f/13 ISO100 - Bounced flash @ -1ev: b&w overlay

Monday 2 April 2012

Beauty

I find it incredibly hard to photograph butterflies at times - especially when you have to balance the exposure as they land in a patch of white sunlit blossom - but this year I will continue my efforts.

105mm 1/200s f/4 ISO100 - Cropped

Mating Season






Rare find this one, a mating pair and the post-coital aftermath

105mm 1/200s f/8 ISO250-ISO400

Ladybird

A little fill-flash used to balance the exposure in this one

105mm 1/250s f6.3 ISO100 - Flash @ -2/3ev

Macro Part 1





Spider - 105mm 1/125s f/10 ISO200: flash @ -1ev

Ladybird - 105mm 1/200s f/8 ISO200

Caterpillar - 105mm 1/200s f/8 ISO1250: cropped, noise reduction. Although not critically sharp (due to some crazy subject movement), I felt the pose was interesting enough to warrant posting.