"Close Up Colors"

Beautiful colors , textures and excellent composition.

I love seeing this close up !

Does the colorful background in this image work for or against it?

Feedback is welcome.

I like the background and the focus centered on the bug's eyes. The lighting is just right. Did you use a flash? I am itching to get a macro ringlite.

Well done Wilson.

In this composition, I think the colorful background works FOR and not against. There are bright colors on the right and also a matching shade of red/orange on the left that provides balance. Nice detail, although I'd like the entire body in focus. Hard to do with macros, though, I know.

Interesting world. Seems there is some blur on the bottom of the butterfly which is confusing compared to blurred background. Maybe MACRO rules on DOF are different?

I find the vivid backround a wonderful contrast with the subdued tan of the swallowtail. The big black eye is an excellent subject. All elements of the image lead me right there. Nice!

nice shot and so beautiful image.

Unreal Wilson. Background is not distracting here and I don't see any noise. Nicely done.

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Colors are playing with my eyes. Excellent work.

Cool background for this Wilson. These shots inspired me to take the 105 out yesterday and shoot 3 rolls...thats sayin a lot. Lens is quite unique and not sure it works quite as well with the 12 tube, least in this one. Although detail is superb on upper wing. Interested in your opinion on that, possibly its just the wide range subject here, but i feel the mag is a bit too strong for the image...maybe?

MERIWETHER: Thanks for your enthusiasm!

 

PETER: Thanks for your feedback. It was available light, hand-held. Indeed ringlite would be so cool. You're making me itch, too. ^_^

 

DENNIS: Thank you sir!

 

KIM: Thanks for your thorough analysis. You're right, I should have gotten more focus. Admittedly I was lazy and hand-held wide open (instead of f22 with tripod.) While messing with 12mm tube gave me great magnification, it certainly decreases d.o.f. even further. It was fun though.

 

HOWARD: Thanks for your feedback. Same d.o.f. rule at work in macro, only so, so much more critical as d.o.f. is so scarce at high mag.

 

JAYME: Thanks for commenting, Jayme.

 

TAMTAM TAMTAM: Thank you, thank you.

 

ALEC: Appreciate your feedback.

 

YURI: Thanks for your vote of confidence.

 

MAJID: Glad you like it.

 

PAUL: So glad it inspired you. As for the hardware compatibility, extension tubes are actually of no issue when matching with different lenses since all you do is moving the focal point further out. Matching a teleconverter to a lens is trickier.

 

The narrow in-focus area is due to my using large aperture (f3.5) to hand hold this shot, exactly what I'm NOT suppose to do, especially with tube attached. Stopping down to f16, f22 etc. would allow deeper d.o.f., but require a use of tripod (hand-holding was so much more fun ^_^)

 

Lastly, although I had fun getting high mag from the tube addition, you're right about the mag factor is too strong on this image. I have another shot of this without the tube in which I'll post in a bit. Thanks for checking this out.

 

Wilson

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Thanks Wilson for that info. This lens is highly interesting and Jerry actually has some extremely good pics with it. His latest grasshoppers, but this one image is my all time fav..sure he wont mind, cant find link but have it saved. Testing mine a whole lot and next week will have some stuff from it...cheers.

Amazing Picture with Amazing colours what more is there to say. 7/7

 

DK.

 

Thanks you guys for the feedback and info. FWIW, here is a shot with less magnification (105 macro by itself.)