Appreciating MicroWorld: February 2008

Saturday, February 23, 2008

The work of Lord V

The single person that had shot lots of insects and marco shots is none other that Lord V. As of today, he had about 10,787 photos macro shots listed on his Flickr site. His photographs are crispy sharp. He shot with flashes mounted on bracket and softened by his modified diffuser. You can check it here, http://lordv.smugmug.com/popular/#120917883 . His methods are shared and discussed here, http://www.flickr.com/groups/mimicry/discuss/66514/ His equipment and attachment are show here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/sets/72157594293307036/show/.

The fact that he uses flashes, he was able to reduce the aperture sometimes to as much as f16, so that he can get a better depth of filed and more saturated colours on the insect. The great thing about Flickr is that we can check the shot property and learn from the setting Lord V uses. Here is the property of this shot, the aperture is f5.6 and shot with 65mm macro lens.
I did a cut and paste of the property here.

Camera:	Canon EOS 40D
Exposure:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture:	f/5.6
Focal Length:	65 mm
ISO Speed:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Flash fired

Orientation:	Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution:	72 dpi
Y-Resolution:	72 dpi
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
Date and Time:	2008:02:23 12:21:35
YCbCr Positioning:	Centered
Exposure Program:	Manual
Date and Time (Original):	2008:02:23 08:39:09
Date and Time (Digitized):	2008:02:23 08:39:09
Shutter Speed:	499712/65536
Sub-Second Time:	45
Sub-Second Time (Original):	45
Sub-Second Time (Digitized):	45
Color Space:	sRGB
Focal Plane X-Resolution:	4438.356 dpi
Focal Plane Y-Resolution:	4445.969 dpi
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Compression:	JPEG
XMP Date and Time (Original):	2008-02-23T08:39:09Z
Image Width:	957 pixels
Image Height:	638 pixels