Testing the flash.

Made a small change to the flash diffusers, and tried out a few shots. Ended up watching an ichneumon wasp run up and down each plant, then fly to the next.
A little patience and I managed one lucky shot. It is not the best quality.

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Outstanding set Bas, light looks great!

Lighting looks good, Bas.

Lighting is great to me but what do I know, I'm still using my on camera flash.

Nice shots Bas

Quite nice shots, Bas. Well-captured details of the fly in the second shot and your light is becoming more & more pleasing.

what ish said.
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Bas,

Your images are just ridiculously OUTSTANDING!!! I just recently logged back into my flickr and seen your recent work. Needless to say I heard something a man never wants to hear from his wife "you'll never be as good as he is" Great work.

Tony

Awesome as always Bas, keep up the great work!

Very nice light, Bas!

KILLERCLOWN wrote in post #15983422
Outstanding set Bas, light looks great!

Thank you Dan.

Worcester Lad wrote in post #15983743
Lighting looks good, Bas.

Cheers George.

drhanson wrote in post #15983883
Lighting is great to me but what do I know, I'm still using my on camera flash.

Dennis, that is great, you do get good results.

Fredan wrote in post #15983903
Nice shots Bas

Thanks Terry.

Ishrani wrote in post #15984077
Quite nice shots, Bas. Well-captured details of the fly in the second shot and your light is becoming more & more pleasing.

Thank you Ishrani. There is still no WOW factor (to me) but I do feel I am getting better, and that is great

mandokid1 wrote in post #15984142
what ish said.
like #2

Thank you

Tony0174 wrote in post #15984949
Bas,

Your images are just ridiculously OUTSTANDING!!! I just recently logged back into my flickr and seen your recent work. Needless to say I heard something a man never wants to hear from his wife "you'll never be as good as he is" Great work.

Tony

LOL Tony. It is strange I still see my work as being not that good, I have some nice shots, but with all my progress this year I don't see myself as a Kurt/Brian/Denis/Ishra​ni/Andres/KC.. Many thanks for your kind words.

The F stops here wrote in post #15984958
Awesome as always Bas, keep up the great work!

Thank you.

orionmystery wrote in post #15984976
Very nice light, Bas!

Thank you Kurt.

I will be honest, I am not sure that the light is better, the change I made was to be able to get the flash close enough to subjects at higher zoom on the MP-E. As always the lighting is a work I progress.

As I am generally happy with the lighting I am now aiming to get better composition, and more pleasing pictures. I also need to reduce the silly errors, all of these were underexposed because I got caught up in the moment and didn't check the histogram. I needed to bump up the exposure by 2 and then give them a sprinkling of noise reduction.

For all that I really appreciate all your kind words and support, so please let me know what I could do better- I was to become as good as I can.

Lighting is fine. Ichneumons never seem to rest, tough subject.

Thanks Toby.

working great Bas!

Lovely captures- light looks good.
Brian V.