Some hoverflies

A few hoverfly shots.

Brian V.

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Very very nice! You may have answered this before but do you do a lot of PP? And what is you work flow in PP?

rw2 wrote in post #3788183
Very very nice! You may have answered this before but do you do a lot of PP? And what is you work flow in PP?

Thanks RW2.

Normal work flow is :-

RAW exposure correction. rarely colour temp correction.
PS levels correction, light de-noise, USM sharpen 100,1,1.

I virtually never play with the colour now apart from sometimes de-saturating flower shots where the colour has blown.

Most PP work I do is when I use focus stacking to increase the DOF. This involves an extra step between RAW and PS using combinezm and then in PS it's just clean the image up and a de-noise (combinezm does it's own sharpening).
I don't particularly enjoy image processing so keep it as simple as possible (apart from focus stacking).

Brian V.

Super set Brian. #4 looks like it has a chocolate tongue.

the first one is awesome.

yeah first is my fav. too. I'v noticed a ton of photos of hoverflys. what's up with that?

iv come to the conclusion that i have spent 500 pound on a flash and your getting pics with no light bouncing off the eyes and u paid half of what i paid..i must get that flash and make a home made diffuser like u did..if i took that pic that u did u would see a white light in his eyes.. and nothing i try diffuser this dam flash..canon if u can hear me u need to get a grip,,your selling a flash with no diffuser..dam u,

Super stuff Brian. Stunning eye detail in your shots.

Superb, as ever Brian.

Think #1 is my favourite.

you sure captured the textures in #2, I feel I want to touch it, stupendous.
I thought you did all your sharpening in RAW?

Thanks for looking and commenting everyone - much appreciated

macro-junkie- think you need to play with the dual flash perhaps with some diffusers. Took me over a year of practicing to finally settle on a flash system/diffuser I now use.

RM- The RAW converter does do some sharpening and noise reduction by default I do have it set at 100% sharpening instead of the normal 30% value it uses. Never quite sure what the difference is just know the effect is different to USM and I still use USM after, but only on the original image (I don't do the further sharpening after image reduction for the web). I have never really done any Intensive comparisons on workflow for image prep just have evolved a simple system that seems to work for me.

Brian V.

Gorgeous shots Brian - #5 is superb with that eye detail and you can actually see more detail of the texture of the face than one can normally see with macro shots, it always seems to look like smooth flesh.

Linda

LindaB wrote in post #3795672
Gorgeous shots Brian - #5 is superb with that eye detail and you can actually see more detail of the texture of the face than one can normally see with macro shots, it always seems to look like smooth flesh.

Linda

Thanks Linda
Think I was shooting at 3:1 for the last shot.
Brian V.