Butterflies & Bug at Bentley Wood.
Visited Bentley Wood again on the 14th May, to try to see some Small Pearl Bordered Butterflies. Well they were
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Macro Techniques and Tutorials
Further Background Experiments.
Following on from my first experiment with using glitter card as a background for macro shots, I took them out
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Canon 1dx Mk II Announced, Specs and New Technology Explained.
Canon today premiers the highly anticipated EOS-1D X Mark II, its new flagship DSLR engineered to put the ultimate combination
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FerroLiquid
I got some Ferroliquid as a present for Christmas. Ferroliquid is an oily magnetic liquid, that when you put it
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Laowa 2:1 Macro Lens
I purchased an ex demo Laowa 2:1 Macro Lens to allow me to shoot high magnification macro images whilst my
Replacing a Background with Select Colour in Photoshop CS5
This is a tutorial on using the Select Colour tool in Photoshop CS5 to replace a background with a single
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Orange Tip at Rest
On Sunday 8th May I attempted to go to Noar Hill which is reputed to be good for butterflies. Looking
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Pearl Bordered Fritillarys and others at Bentley Wood.
I took a visit to Bentley Wood at the beginning of May to try see & take some shots of
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Alners Gorse & FiddleFord Mill.
On bank holiday Monday I took a trip to Alners Gorse (A butterfly convservation reserve), to see what if anything
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Flies, Flowers and Shield Bug.
Took another trip to the still bluebell flowered woodland that is Garston Wood on the Easter weekend. The wild garlic
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Meet the Mantids
I took some shots of some pet mantis’s on Friday evening. Currently we have 4 mantis’s, all of different types.
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Garston Wood – Flowers and Bee
Today I visited the RSPB’s Garston Wood again to check out how the flowers were showing. It was a typical
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Checking the background.
One important aspect when taking macro photographs is to check what is in the background of the shot for distracting
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Hod Hill – Flowers and flies
Visited the hill fort of Hod Hill on Saturday, walking from the village over the hill and round again. The
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