What about some eyes shots?

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#1 - Lonely Damselfly

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do you light your subjects from the inside? Some striking images there.

What was the setup for the last shot?

Great set of shots...That sleepy sweet bee is superb. I too would like to know how these were lit?

Alistair.

Wonderful series Adrian- Love the bee and robber fly
Brian V.

Great series of pictures - I love the eyes on the robber fly.

Stunning series. #1 and 5 are my favourites.

The Damsel fly almost looks like it's giving a speech. The Robber fly makes a particularly dramatic picture.

yep difinately a great series. like them all

Bill

Hiya Adrian,

Excellent series of shots, love the Sweet-Bee & Robber best, the Robber being my favorite

Cheers for now
Mark

Thanks all for your kind words and comments. If memory serves well, all shots were taken handheld with 5D and MP-E65. A 1.4xTC was used for a couple of them (don't remember which ones and the camera doesn't record that piece of info). Below is the EXIF for each one of the above images. RM, don't know what exatly you mean "light your subjects from inside", but the MT-24EX was used for all shots. Lighting angle and direction were adjusted for different situations in which these shots were taken.

#1 1/200s f/14.0 at 65.0mm iso1000 <== forgot to adjust this....I guess it's not too bad at 1000
#2 1/200s f/16.0 at 65.0mm iso200
#3 1/200s f/13.0 at 65.0mm iso200
#4 1/200s f/14.0 at 65.0mm iso100
#5 1/200s f/16.0 at 65.0mm iso100