Night Macro at Tasek Lama

My first night macro. It is quite challenging because I need my friend to hold the torch light so that I can focus on the insects. Spotting an insect in the dark was difficult, I only manage to spot 4 or 5 but only manage to shoot 3. It really was a great experience.

This is the 2nd time I saw this kind of grasshopper

 

A moth.

 

6 legged spider. Click the image above to see larger pic and look at it’s somewhat scary eyes, and those hairs…

Focus Stacking

One of the challenges in doing macro shooting is dealing with very thin Depth of Focus (DOF), resulting some part of your object turn to be out of focus. One technique to eliminate this problem is by focus stacking. You can read more about focus stacking from this website. Anyway, here is my first attempt to do a focus stacking, I took a total of 8 pictures just to create this one image.

 

Above: As you can see, almost all parts of the insect body are in focus. (ALMOST hehe..),
Anyway, got to try this again… and properly this time. …still learning…

Below: Here is one of the original picture I use to create the above image. (Just for comparison),
Not all of the parts are in focus, especially the hind legs & tail.

Friday Morning Macro at Bukit Shahbandar

This is my 2nd time to shoot at Bukit Shahbandar. Manage to shoot only few species of insects.

Above: Manage to shoot this spider. It is quite small and I had a hard time to get it in focus.

Below: The pic below are taken by Lan.

 

 

I think this is the first time I saw this ant species. I try to shoot it from in front but they just don’t want to pose for me..

 

Look at its weird abdomen and head. I think this is a cross between termites and ant.

 

Pe nyang at.. or a BEE.. this pic was actually  shoot by HBK using my camera. He just want to show off his handheld skills. (sorry bro if you don’t like the way I tweak your pics and the watermark haha.. I claim the copyright..)

Tasek Lama Revisit

Yep.. it has been a while.. a loooonngg while hehe… I miss macro shooting.. so decided to join HBK to Tasek Lama. After some tweaking with aperture and photoshop, here are the results..

 

…what i like about this dragon fly is that it remains calm despite of the surrounding noise made by passerby and my lousy skill of handling my camera tripod.. hehe

soften it, sharpen it, blurred it, add glow, add brightness.. etc. (I actually forgot what I did to this pic)

Smiley dragon fly.. again.. The pink colour in the background is actually a jogger, well at least it give more colour to the pic.

 

 

Look at it’s hind leg… a water droplet.

Here is the close-up.. and what do you know.. the red object in the droplet is actually HBK, hiding in the bush.

Here is another water droplet.. and you can see HBK’s tripod and camera bag as he was saying “…ampai-ampai tangah dunia!” or is it tangah jalan??