Jonathan Ashton
11-24-2014, 12:18 PM
Small aquarium inside a polystyrene light box. Two flash guns, one either side pointing obliquely upwards.
Tripod Canon 1Dx Canon 180mm macro, ISO 100 1/125 sec f16. I made a quick mask of the subject area and applied a little discrete surface blur to the background to disguise the detritus.
Just had to post this I have never seen anything like it! The backswimmer came down to the beetle and stole about 50% of his air bubble and swam off! I saw where he punctured the bubble, then he went silver and disappeared.
Regards set up, this shot was taken in water taken from the surface of the garden pond but it becomes contaminated in no time- in fact as soon as you add anything, so lesson learned I will wash plants etc before adding. I have since put filtered pond water in. Trouble is now I am finding it very difficult to find anything in the pond, I suspect a lot of stuff will have gone down to the depths.
Not exactly a brilliant shot but nevertheless I thought it was interesting.
All C&C welcome.
Tripod Canon 1Dx Canon 180mm macro, ISO 100 1/125 sec f16. I made a quick mask of the subject area and applied a little discrete surface blur to the background to disguise the detritus.
Just had to post this I have never seen anything like it! The backswimmer came down to the beetle and stole about 50% of his air bubble and swam off! I saw where he punctured the bubble, then he went silver and disappeared.
Regards set up, this shot was taken in water taken from the surface of the garden pond but it becomes contaminated in no time- in fact as soon as you add anything, so lesson learned I will wash plants etc before adding. I have since put filtered pond water in. Trouble is now I am finding it very difficult to find anything in the pond, I suspect a lot of stuff will have gone down to the depths.
Not exactly a brilliant shot but nevertheless I thought it was interesting.
All C&C welcome.