Pollen hoovering

[LordV]

"Hooverflies" pollen noshing. All taken with sigma 105mm with a 12mm ext tube.
Last shot is natural light.

Brian V.

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[Courierman]

nice , you think its uses static to clean it up

[Photogirl2007]

Excellent shots Brian but I particularly like the way you caught his wings in the first one.

[alliec]

Excellent, 2 and 3 are wonderful captures.

[Matatazela]

Unbelievable. Really, VVVWD!

[Nymphalidae]

nice effect: the grey color of the insect and the pink of the flower.
#2 is for me the best, for compo and lights.

[robgr85]

excellent captures!

[DooleyPix]

Great shots,very sharp,can't believe you've got pollen and bugs in mid-Winter,has England been moved?:lol:.Are they hand held?if so wow!!

[LindaB]

One for them - gorgeous! Really love #3, such a pretty photo (of both of them)

Linda

[Canonswhitelensesrule]

Incredible captures. I esp love the colours of the first one. Simply amazing work, Brian.

[LordV]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone- much appreciated :)
Interesting effect you get with the rhododendron pollen coming out in strings.

DooleyPix - I was using my "beanpole" to help stabilise the camera - Just a pole I grip in my left hand along with a bit of camera.

brian V.

[randomgrafix]

Very nice BV. I'm lovin #1

[squashed]

Amazing captures !!!

[racketman]

great definition in 2 & 3.

[GaryT]

Nice captures Brian. Really like #2 the best.

[Ran_photography]

Brian, what flash/ diffusers do you use? Been meaning to ask you that. You achieve pretty much perfect lighting in all your pictures.

[LordV]

Thanks again for the comments everyone :)
Ran_P - I use a bracket mounted 430Ex with home-made diffuser - the coca-cola can model :) http://www.flickr.com/groups/macroviewers/discuss/72157594312315664/

Brian V.

[dpastern]

Another nice series Brian, especially #3.

One thing I've noticed though, the lighting doesn't seem as "soft" in your shots since you got the 40D, I will attribute this down to using DPP instead of C1. It's just a tad harsher imho, but still better than most of us here achieve imho.

Dave

[LordV]

Another nice series Brian, especially #3.

One thing I've noticed though, the lighting doesn't seem as "soft" in your shots since you got the 40D, I will attribute this down to using DPP instead of C1. It's just a tad harsher imho, but still better than most of us here achieve imho.

Dave

Thanks Dave :)- suspect the difference you are seeing is possibly because I've started doing further sharpening on the web reduced images which I never used to do before. Think my non reduced images are exactly the same.

Brian V.

[dpastern]

Ahh...large images on flickr are beyond my reach at the moment, they just take too long to view...

Dave