Fatal-Noogie
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09 Nov 2012, 6:56 pm
The motivs are good but the colours are hurting my eyes (well not litterally, but they do to my eyes what a nail on a blackboard do to my ears).
I guess that I am too much of a naturealist
I never quite know how much to saturate which colors because I don't know how others will see it on their monitors,
so I tend to error on the side of excess. If I never get feedback, I don't know when I've gone too far.
In the bee picture, the subject, texture, and color clash pretty harsh.
I'm much more satisfied with my color schemes for my tidepool series (not really macro, but some are closeups)
http://fatal-noogie.deviantart.com/gallery/37511121
but even there, there's a huge different between the hard-proofed prints and the compressed web-colors.
I'd like to see more macro insects when/if you post them. Larger scale would help.
@yellowtamarin
I think that's a moth.
Great capture though. It looks like the bright exposure helped hold the textural details in those dark wings.
@Mindsigh
I can't find your "skyza" pictures. Try copying and pasting a url.
09 Nov 2012, 7:14 pm
I think that's a moth.
Great capture though. It looks like the bright exposure helped hold the textural details in those dark wings.
Definitely a butterfly - based it on the fact that its wings are upright while it is resting, which is indicative of a butterfly, and it doesn't have feathery antennae. It looks a lot "furrier" in close-up, so it does look more moth-like in that picture.
I was lucky it was a sunny day, the downside was the strong shadows, which meant an awkwardly-placed shadow on its eye from its antenna. I'm hoping to improve on that shot this Summer.
Love the tide pool photos
09 Nov 2012, 7:18 pm
I forgot I was supposed to upload more pics and let you know! Well I've made up for it by posting some here and having others do the same
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09 Nov 2012, 7:31 pm
At least my taxonomy is slightly better than this guy's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srUc0ExTljU
As for inspiration, I think my favorite macro photographer is Martin Amm,
who shoots mostly with a 150mm lens and a wide aperture,
and tends to edit for soft pastel-like colors. He has great consistency
at capturing condensation and moisture on insects farther into his catalog: http://struller.deviantart.com/gallery
11 Nov 2012, 3:31 pm
I forgot I was supposed to upload more pics and let you know! Well I've made up for it by posting some here and having others do the same
I look forward to seeing more!
12 Nov 2012, 1:27 am
MMMmmm, Macro!
Thanks for bumping this thread slave. I love macro shots.
This is as close as I can get with my camera:
I kept this one alive for three months even though my husband kept trying to kill it. The orange and red dots aren't artifacts, it's actually spider dinner, I interrupted meal time on the web..
I'm trying to decide what lens I should get first for my camera, a nice macro lens? a nice telephoto? maybe a wide angle/fisheye and a mount for doing timelapse at night? those tilt-shift lenses are nifty.
I can only choose one...
The very limits of my lens:
13 Nov 2012, 6:03 pm
14 Nov 2012, 2:12 pm
14 Nov 2012, 3:22 pm
The motivs are good but the colours are hurting my eyes (well not litterally, but they do to my eyes what a nail on a blackboard do to my ears).
I guess that I am too much of a naturealist
I never quite know how much to saturate which colors because I don't know how others will see it on their monitors,
so I tend to error on the side of excess. If I never get feedback, I don't know when I've gone too far.
In the bee picture, the subject, texture, and color clash pretty harsh.
I'm much more satisfied with my color schemes for my tidepool series (not really macro, but some are closeups)
http://fatal-noogie.deviantart.com/gallery/37511121
but even there, there's a huge different between the hard-proofed prints and the compressed web-colors.
I'd like to see more macro insects when/if you post them. Larger scale would help.
I know that I can be pretty "tight" when it comes to colours in nature photography. I do find that the choor scheme in your tidepool series much more natural and therefore I prefer them
14 Nov 2012, 4:10 pm
Lapland Rosebay Rhododendron lapponicum
I like this picture because the colours are clashing so very much (to my eyes). It is only natural
colours and no tweaking of levels (to unnatural levels)!
I might behave a bit aspie but my nature photos have to depict what is there.
Fatal-Noogie
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17 Nov 2012, 3:42 pm
17 Nov 2012, 8:21 pm
17 Nov 2012, 9:23 pm
I also prefer to preserve the colours as they appeared to me at the time, rather than enhancing too much. This one I took the other day turned out quite well colour-wise.
(A doli fly)
18 Nov 2012, 4:57 am
19 Nov 2012, 1:33 pm
I can't go to flickr from work. I guess it'll have to wait a few more months. 
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25 Nov 2012, 4:07 am
I dug thru my raw photos from that catalog and found this one,
so I put it side-by-side with the finished version for comparison.
http://fatal-noogie.deviantart.com/art/ ... -339610415 <––
I agree that my tidepools are better than the 3 pics I posted at the beginning,
but 'naturalism' cannot explain this difference in quality.
I can think of other variables that might explain it,
but they're too numerous to list here atm.
I wish I had more recent pictures to post,
but lately I've been shooting at larger scales.
Hopefully more members will post here.
I love yellowtamarin's doli fly.
