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Story This was most unbelievable insect i have captured with my camera yet... i was shooting macro with my Raynox and newly created pop-up flash modifier.. i saw a brown spec on green leaves and considered it as some tiny dry leaf or piece of wood fleck... but then it bounced from one leaf to another and i realized its indeed an insect.. but had no clue where is its eye.. till i captured it and zoomed all the way into the photo!! Thanks to Raynox this is almost zero crop .. its as big as it was captured. Also its a stacking of 2 photos
Size: 1 mm wide : 5 mm long : 2mm tall (Tall.. 2mm? hahaha!!)
Technique: Equipment: Canon 1000 D + Sigma APO DG Macro 70-300 + Raynox DCR 250 + home-made Pop-up-flash diffuser (Hand-held, manual focus)
Settings: 1/200s + f/13.5 + ISO 100
Light: Pop up flash and my latest modifier.. i will post the pictures soon.. essentially i have wrapped a 2 liter soda bottle... but its working GREAT.
post processing / stacking
1. Picasa: 2 shots (one for eye focus another for tail focus) stacked convert from RAW to jpeg
2. CombineZP: Thorough Align and Do Stack
3. Gimp: minor crop / Curves / sharpness
4. FastStone: Resize
Look at the texture on the eye and the tail.. something that clearly INVISIBLE to the human eye!
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