Mosquito Sunset

[The Traveller]

Lens flare - normally a photographer's nightmare. But I actually tried to use the flaring tendency of this lens to my advantage for the composition. Any comments?

http://www.nicklyon.btinternet.co.uk/subpages/galleries/backcatalogue/images/bc_uk_mosquitoes.jpg

[kiwicolin]

Wow, that is super cool! What kind of lens did you use?

[The Traveller]

cheers boss. i used my Pentax-A 70~200mm f4 lens for this one. reliable bit of kit, have used it for years, and i got it second hand for about £50. its manual, but has such a smooth focus action that (paired with the split-ring focusing plane on my Ricoh KR-5superII body) its pretty easy to get the focus in.

[Edited on 10-7-2003 by The Traveller]

[Edited on 10-7-2003 by The Traveller]

[fotodog]

Damn, I hate bugs.

but this is a really cool techinque.

I like the flare!

Now where's the RAID?

[The Traveller]

well fotodog my entomophobic friend, if that last one got you then what do you make of the common yellow dungfly?

i bent the rules on this one too - throwing the subject out of focus with my macro lens gave an sort of impressionist image that was far more attractive than would have been the case if i had shot for the detail.

http://www.nicklyon.btinternet.co.uk/subpages/unsorted/flysun01.jpg

[loiosh]

Wow, those are great pics. I especially like the one of the fly.:notworthy

[The Traveller]

whilst RAID is indeed an effective destroyer of bugs, it is indesciminate in its nuking of our chitinously exoskeletogenous neighbours. i favour a more organic approach to the problem. my little venus sits by my bed at night. below is the grim fate that awaits those who come to eat me.

http://www.nicklyon.btinternet.co.uk/subpages/unsorted/venus.jpg :lol:lol:lol

[Stellor]

Excellent work, the fly looks like a shadow on the wall.
I LOVE BUGS.

Sam

[The Traveller]

this one is for you sam :: a french shield bug.

http://www.nicklyon.btinternet.co.uk/subpages/unsorted/bug02b.jpg

[fotodog]

The fly shot is killer!
I like the fact that it's not sharp focus.

the other shots are great too.

[DutchGoblin]

oh-oh-oh, amazing shots!

I really like the second one. Very original! And we like original!

Cool... :notworthy

[The Traveller]

Travelling is great, but the company you keep isn't always. A constant companion on my trips tends to be the cockroach. I have been woken up in the night by a cockroach eating my soap in India. I have accidently eaten one too. This one was an uninvited guest in my bath in Sumatra.

50mm lens, f4, 1/125 sec + external flash


http://www.nicklyon.btinternet.co.uk/subpages/images/cockroach.jpg

[The Traveller]

found this little guy just outside my front door.


http://www.nicklyon.btinternet.co.uk/subpages/galleries/backcatalogue/images/bc_uk_cricket.jpg

[kiwicolin]

Those are all very good shots! Love the fly, erminds me of something out of a bugs life

[Rainer]

:) I love them all. May I set the fly (shadow) on head tho?

[Martin]

all I can see is a small box with a red cross.. did that take you long to do.. :lol :lol :lol