liewwk Nature Photography Blog
The bird dropping spider (Celaenia excavata) derives its name from mimicking bird droppings to avoid predators, mainly birds. …
a spider that easy to capture as it seldom move .. as it pertain as a bird drop …
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i love and enjoy the nature , if you ask me is the lifes important or my pictures more important .. I will choose lifes for sure … and hope everyone do love, enjoy and protect them …
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more caterpillar
slow on macro .. or think stop for months .. but think I still have too many macro pictures not filter yet ..
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more Damselfly pictures
while my trip to Bake’lalan , I did spent ~2 hours in a lovely jungle purely for MACRO.. a beautiful jungle with so much thing found …
One of them is a GOLD bar … I thought why a gold flying around while I saw this … and when I approach .. just notice this is a WASP …
I witness a ant-mimic male guide or seem protect the female .. I was observe it (~10-15min) hope for something interesting happen among the male A (with tag) and female
but suddenly another male (Male B) turn up and try to fight with the male (it happen so fast (<1-2s) and they end up at this position …
after the Male A got kill, male B look at the female for a while outside the web … but the female just run away …. (even before I can try to give her a close up shot)
some of my Ant-mimic spider collection
http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=326
and was with my update lighting setup
I was there (drive ~20km) for a robberfly which I met one day before (and I don;t have my macro gears with me)…
but accidentally found this Ant-mimic for me .. never see this type … and not only new found but I witness an amazing moment … the both male fight for something !!!!!… (will share the other picture to show what it fight for later … need to little stack work on that)
and the moment they fight …
not a most beautiful ant-mimic that I saw before but this is a beautiful one too …
few types of Ant-mimic collection
1. An ant mimic spider of the genus myrmarachne that mimic Tetraponera rufonigra ant
2. … Ant-mimic crab | Amyciaea lineatipes having prey …
3. Ant-mimic jumping spider | 蟻蛛 (male)
4. very common black myrmarachne
Spider collection by liewwk
my last update for my MACRO setup was Jul 2010 … which discuss @ http://liewwk-macro.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-i-shoot-macro-new-accessories-and.html
but since then I have put most of my time to landscape … not much thing change but just to share it to my new blog …
my update short focal length full flash setup
some result
some result as below
i. concave, V & Light tent
ii. UV & Light tent
my SIGMA150 with Kenko ET, Kenko 1.4TC still my natural light macro setup … while I am still trying to resolved the full flash concern .. my last update @ http://liewwk-macro.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-i-shoot-macro-lighting-result-for.html
some results
possible for MP-E65 and the Background color (F8, 1/160, ISO100)
ii. with only ET @full magnification
iii.plus 1.4TC
iv. full magnification front view
it look pretty acceptable to me but I still trying to improve it and I will mostly use SIGMA150 for coming weekend outing ….
think now the light tent diffuser started by Stephen is a very good solution for macro .. do not worry on what you have trying to find a good way to DIY your tent/cup diffuser, yours lighting will be almost ready …..
few sample of the simple tent diffuser user
sample result from kit len + raunox202 + lighting diffuser with build in flash …. visit Jeffrey Photostream
if you interested to know more and know how to DIY the lighting for your MACRO setup … you may attend one of my workshop or outing to ask further 😀
I am working on 2 pano MACRO shot … and think this is quite important especially for MP-E65 user.. so just have a quick copy and paste over
Why I need to Stitch ?
I start stitch my macro due to I have my MPE where only do minimum 1:1 (1x life time) and any object that >22mm will not fit in single picture frame … and how I get the whole object into a single picture …… hmmm I am thinking a stitch it …. and I have my very 1st try while outing to Fraser Hill 21 Nov 2008, where I saw plenty of BIG moth and I cannot fit it into a single picture e.g.
[shot with 1:1] , and this is too big for me and I am thinking how I got the whole moth view .. and I finally did something for a smaller one
[stitch picture]
[picture 2:1]
How I do Stitch ???
1. for start, how we shoot
We need to shot picture at same level of view so I normally shot at standard angle where esily to shoot another e.g. face direct view, side view …….. e.g.
How I do Stitch ???
1. for start, how we shoot
We need to shot picture at same level of view so I normally shot at standard angle where esily to shoot another e.g. face direct view, side view …….. e.g.
i. face focus on left eye
ii. focus on right eye
iii. focus on face
2. use Photoshop “Photomerge” option
3. i use “interactive layout”
4. select the file you wish to stitch
5. this will take some time depend how many pictures to stitch and your PC power 😀
– if this is not auto merge then try to move around the picture to try manual to merge the pictures ….
6. click Ok after #5, then it will come out like standard JPEG with multiple layers
7. for the non-cover area, either crop it away or clone it 😀
8. normally I will use multiple shots again to stack the focus area by using method discuss in
“How I Increase My Macro Picture DOF”
…..please comment and let me know if you need further question.
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