Robber flies with prey

[orionmystery]

Robber flies with prey.

 

[TheFantasticG]

Very nice, Kurt. I really like the bg vs subject contrast in colors in #1. Sharp DoF and selection in #4 make it another one I really like in this series.

 

[orionmystery]

Very nice, Kurt. I really like the bg vs subject contrast in colors in #1. Sharp DoF and selection in #4 make it another one I really like in this series.

Thanks FantasticG.

 

[JohnS.]

Man... I hate bugs. Seeing them in macro makes me cringe. But I love amazing photographs! Awesome focus and I like the DoF in some as stated.

 

[cgipson1]

Kurt.. Lovely shots! Absolutely beautiful! #4 .. those eyes blow me away!

 

[Viceroy]

Fantastic! Great work.

 

[orionmystery]

Man... I hate bugs. Seeing them in macro makes me cringe. But I love amazing photographs! Awesome focus and I like the DoF in some as stated.

Kurt.. Lovely shots! Absolutely beautiful! #4 .. those eyes blow me away!

Fantastic! Great work.

Thanks for looking and commenting, amej8, Charlie, Viceroy.

 

[tpe]

Great work. It is funny, after having a look at some of your larger versions of these pics it is quite apparent that they have lost a lot of detail in the resizing, and it actually makes quite a difference to the asthetics.

Tim

 

[orionmystery]

Great work. It is funny, after having a look at some of your larger versions of these pics it is quite apparent that they have lost a lot of detail in the resizing, and it actually makes quite a difference to the asthetics.

Tim

Thanks Tim. Yeah, resized images are just not the same

 

[SixShotEspressO]

wow, this is awesome. I wanna try some Macro...........I'm such a noob I dont know what I want to do, this whole world of photography is just too awesome.....hard for me to decide what I want to spend time and $$$ learning to do.

 

[orionmystery]

wow, this is awesome. I wanna try some Macro...........I'm such a noob I dont know what I want to do, this whole world of photography is just too awesome.....hard for me to decide what I want to spend time and $$$ learning to do.

Thanks, SixShotEspressO.

 

[jriepe]

Kurt,

I just joined this forum a few minutes ago but am looking forward to seeing a lot of shots of yours. They are Superb with a capital S.

Jerry

 

[BekahAura]

#4 is my favorite, simply because of the unique angle. But really, these are beautiful, all of them.

I was reading your blog after seeing your mosaic of 2011 shots before, and I came across your post on focus stacking. I'm definitely going to try that out sometime soon, it seems like a really challenging goal, especially with moving insects. But I was wondering, did you use that tactic on any of these? I still can't figure out how to find exif info in the photos posted here... what were your settings if you don't mind?

 

[orionmystery]

Kurt,

I just joined this forum a few minutes ago but am looking forward to seeing a lot of shots of yours. They are Superb with a capital S.

Jerry

#4 is my favorite, simply because of the unique angle. But really, these are beautiful, all of them.

I was reading your blog after seeing your mosaic of 2011 shots before, and I came across your post on focus stacking. I'm definitely going to try that out sometime soon, it seems like a really challenging goal, especially with moving insects. But I was wondering, did you use that tactic on any of these? I still can't figure out how to find exif info in the photos posted here... what were your settings if you don't mind?

Thaks jriepe, BekahAura for looking and commenting.

BekahAura - these are all mostly single exposure, unstacked.

1/200, ISO100, between F11 to 13.

 

[kearypik]

Amazing pictures! What kind of macro lens do you use?