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Selection

Replacing a Background with Select Colour in Photoshop CS5

May 27, 2011October 4, 2012 Chris 0 Comments Butterfly, Canon MPE-65mm, Photoshop CS5, Select Colour, Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary, tutorial

This is a tutorial on using the Select Colour tool in Photoshop CS5 to replace a background with a single

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Female Orange Tip - Anthocharis cardamines at 1:1.

Orange Tip at Rest

May 17, 2011June 17, 2011 Chris 2 Comments Anthocharis cardamines, Butterflies, Canon 100mm F2.8 USM, Canon 50D, macro, Orange Tip

On Sunday 8th May I attempted to go to Noar Hill which is reputed to be good for butterflies. Looking

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Stack of Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Boloria euphrosyne

Pearl Bordered Fritillarys and others at Bentley Wood.

May 16, 2011August 21, 2011 Chris 0 Comments Beefly, Bentley Wood, Boloria euphrosyne, Bombyliidae, Butterflies, Canon 100mm F2.8 USM, Canon 20D Infrared Converted, Canon 50D, Canon MPE-65mm, macro, Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Stacking

I took a visit to Bentley Wood at the beginning of May to try see & take some shots of

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Caterpillars of Lacky Moth - Malacosoma neustria

Alners Gorse & FiddleFord Mill.

May 8, 2011December 14, 2014 Chris 2 Comments Alners Gorse, Banded Demoiselle, Canon 100mm F2.8 USM, Canon 50D, Fiddleford Mill, Ladybird, macro, Mayfly

On bank holiday Monday I took a trip to Alners Gorse (A butterfly convservation reserve), to see what if anything

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Colourful Fly

Flies, Flowers and Shield Bug.

May 6, 2011December 14, 2014 Chris 2 Comments Bronze Shield Bug, Canon 100mm F2.8 USM, Canon 50D, Canon MPE-65mm, fly, macro, Stitchwort

Took another trip to the still bluebell flowered woodland that is Garston Wood on the Easter weekend. The wild garlic

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Mantis Montage

Meet the Mantids

April 10, 2011April 12, 2011 Chris 0 Comments Canon 100mm F2.8 USM, Canon 50D, Canon MPE-65mm, Dead Leaf Mantis, Ghost Mantis, macro, Mantis, Springbok Mantis, Twig Mantis

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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Bee

Garston Wood – Flowers and Bee

April 4, 2011April 12, 2011 Chris 0 Comments bee, Canon 100mm F2.8 USM, Canon 17-40mm USM L, Canon 20D Infrared Converted, Canon 50D, Canon MPE-65mm, close up, garston wood, macro, toothwort, Wood anenome

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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Fungi with Grass

Checking the background.

March 28, 2011April 12, 2011 Chris 0 Comments background, distracting

One important aspect when taking macro photographs is to check what is in the background of the shot for distracting

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Purple & White Violets

Hod Hill – Flowers and flies

March 27, 2011April 12, 2011 Chris 0 Comments Canon 100mm F2.8 USM, Canon 50D, Canon MPE-65mm, Celandine, Hod Hill, macro

Visited the hill fort of Hod Hill on Saturday, walking from the village over the hill and round again. The

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Common Yellow Dung Fly - Scathophaga stercoraria. Head Close up at 4x.

Flowers and Fly at Powerstock Common

March 27, 2011December 14, 2014 Chris 0 Comments Canon 100mm F2.8 USM, Canon 50D, Canon MPE-65mm, Dorset Wildlife Trust, macro, Powerstock Common, Primroses

I had a day off work on Friday and decided to take a trip to see what sort of state

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