A couple of days ago I headed over to a little park in wonderful little place called Hale Village (not too far away from where I live). There's a small wildflower meadow there, Cornflowers, poppies, the big daisies.
It was rather windy and the bugs were quite active (mostly bees, hovers and Cockchafers).
Using my normal settings were blowing the daisies completely out and making shooting the darker bugs on the white flowers very difficult so I experimented a little (on some of the shots, not all) by upping ISO settings and reducing flash output right down to try and balance out the light a bit combined with actually pulling back a bit from full 1:1 macro to try and show the bugs in a more natural environment and with a more natural light feel.
Anyway, here are 15 (Yes FIFTEEN - I do apologise for so many) images to claw your way through. Image quality isn't brilliant on a couple of the bugs. Perhaps a little too dark.
These are taken with a fixed ISO of 800 and aperture of F8 on Aperture priority, still with flash but reduced right down. The shutter speed shown is based on the cameras choice based on ambient light.
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