As some will know I invested in a new macro lens last week and it arrived yesterday, so I have been scouting around the garden, like you do, for likely suspects. The lens is a Canon RF100mm IS USM f/2.8 macro, Being used with my Canon R7. So far I am very impressed with it's capabilities. I just need to improve the guy hanging on the back of the cameras capabilities a bit ... . All shots were taken hand held with no flash or anything.
Two Ants ready for a scrap
An Aphid on a flower stem
Didn't know I had so many Aphids!
Zebra Jumping Spider on top of my shed door
I believe this is a Quedius Curtipennis better known as some kind of Beetle ...
And another ... Well it's the same one really ...
Inside a Petunia in my garden
RAW + Adobe Lightroom increases options. The pricing structure for stand-alone Adobe products has gone silly, and Adobe's online provisions are (IMO) also a bit silly. Still running LR3 on a stand-alone PC. Although I don't know how it might handle/interpret an upgraded camera carcass. Having an old camera carcass i very rarely venture above 200 or 400.
I might have to break out my old-style MPE lens and play around with it again. Effective f-stops means flash is pretty much essential most of the time. The lens is total manual focus (and rack and tripod).. And anything less than 1:1 size is not possible. A garden spider can sometimes fill most of the frame on a full-frame (35mm film equiv) sensor. I wouldn't like to
I seem to have lost my (1:5) frames of the silica injection system that stingling nettles have all over their leaves.
I like having shots where the pollinators are seen to have pollen on them.