Now this is a ‘Dusty Lacewing’, so called of course because of it’s dusty like appearance. This was another first find for me. Its smaller than the more common Lacewing. I think I near had a hernia through holding my breath when trying take a few snaps of it LOL, It’s difficult sometimes to get a scale of the actual size of things with Macro photography, the twig its sitting on for example is only about the thickness of a Buttercup stork.
Great shot Coldeb. I like how you talk about breath holding - I thought there was only me that got breathless doing macro ... . I have got quite faint at times! I have never seen one of those either, looks an interesting find. Like you say, scale is hard to appreciate - I took this small spider yesterday climbing over some enormous boulders - well not really, they were bits of pebbledash, but the looked huge ...
Hope you don't mind me adding it to your thread ...
Hi BD, no I don’t mind at all, as an interested participant in Macro its always great to see other peoples work, get tips and inspiration etc, that is a marvellous pic, yep.. breathing control is so much a part of Macro photography, getting it right can sometimes be a challenge personally I like to breath in , hold for a few seconds as I am moving in and out ( a lot of people don’t realise you need to do this as well as manually focus) then exhale just before I gain focus, hold get the focus right then take my shot.
Coldeb said:I like to breath in , hold for a few seconds as I am moving in and out ( a lot of people don’t realise you need to do this as well as manually focus) then exhale just before I gain focus
My breathing control is to breathe in, hold my breath, and try to finalise the focus and take the shot before I pass out ...
You do make me laugh BD
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My pleasure. I try not to take life too seriously ...
Nor should you!!
….an some people think photography is easy