sweet and messy
Just like the way I eat my cornflakes :-)
I made a series of exposures featuring this little guy using an 85mm Samyang f1.4 manual lens, bolted on to my extension tubes. The optics are buttery and sweet, like the pollen I suspect, but I put too much negative exposure compensation on my metering - the whole set were seriously under-exposed, and I felt like a chimp, or rather, should have done some chimping during the making of the images!
I've now learnt that the Samyang doesn't like being in the dark with more than a quarter stop under-exposure using tubes, and holds the highlights better than I thought, without blowing out.
We live and learn - Photoshop CS5 'Shadows/Highlights' slider rescued them to some extent, thankfully.
sweet and messy
Just like the way I eat my cornflakes :-)
I made a series of exposures featuring this little guy using an 85mm Samyang f1.4 manual lens, bolted on to my extension tubes. The optics are buttery and sweet, like the pollen I suspect, but I put too much negative exposure compensation on my metering - the whole set were seriously under-exposed, and I felt like a chimp, or rather, should have done some chimping during the making of the images!
I've now learnt that the Samyang doesn't like being in the dark with more than a quarter stop under-exposure using tubes, and holds the highlights better than I thought, without blowing out.
We live and learn - Photoshop CS5 'Shadows/Highlights' slider rescued them to some extent, thankfully.