Another Paper Wasp shot

Reading up about these just now, looks like they can be quite aggressive and give a painful sting. Interestingly, they don't even seem worried about me at all. Hopefully this shot seems a bit better exposed etc. My monitor was a bit too bright, and the LCD screen on the Mark IIn was turned up a notch in the brightness scale of things as well. I've rectified both things in the hope of getting my workflow right again.

These wasps have such beautiful eyes!

Dave

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i think it looks good, i am not sure that i could ever get that close to something like that.

i don't have any experience with a micro lens, how close are you to the subject?

I thought all wasp stings were painful...

To my untrained eye it still looks a tad dark, but I see what you mean about the eyes.

Very nice wasp Dave. Like the eyes. Yes it does seem a tad dark.

Lovely shot Dave- still seems slightly dark
Brian V.

Nice work Dave, I love the eyes in these guys also. I would have like to see more of the image to the right. I just noticed the egg in the front cell.

Thanks guys, this image still looks dark on my dad's monitor, so I'm going to go with the flow and say it's still not right. I'm waiting on a Huey pro to be delivered, hopefully that'll sort out the monitor issues. These guys are always around their nest, and it's easy to get to, so plenty of photo opportunities. They have such wonderful eyes, and so far seem very unnaggressive.

The histogram didn't look too bad, no blown highlights or dark sections, but was slightly orientated to the left with the peak, so I guess it the image is underexposed by about 1/2 stop or so.

I've changed several things in my Photoshop workflow, I have a new way of adjusting colour balance with the shot, contrast and also hue/saturation of the image, all of which I think are better in the long run. The interesting thing is that I've noticed the Neat Image profile being much better than it ever used to be. Quite frequently, I'd only get 75% match for the profile, but now it's usually in the high 80s or 90s, which means I must be doing something better with the images

Greg - yes, that's an egg you see!

Dave