Last week I made my first summer trip to the Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary for insect macro photography. Once more the
sanctuary and its little butterfly garden at the entrance did not disappoint. Upon
arrival I encountered a few new born grasshoppers which were interesting to
watch. They were about half an inch in size and pretty much looked
like an exact clone of the full grown Red Legged Locust I photographed last
year - just adorable! There were also a few green bottle flies swirling around
and to my delight I was able to position tripod and camera near a yellow flower
and close striking distance for a fully filled frame. Patience paid off while
waiting for one of the flies to return to the flower. One of them posed as a
beautiful photo model for a few seconds allowing manual focus on the head of the insect
and multiple exposures at various apertures. The aperture adjustments allowed
for maximum Depth of Field while the backdrop beautiful submerges in green and
yellow. Aperture was set to f/8 providing an Exposure time of 1/125 seconds at
ISO100. I purposely underexposed by 1/3 of a stop to boost and saturate
colors. Dust spots removal, minimal contrast, lighting and color saturation
adjustments were made during post processing before sharpening the final images
of this
green bottle fly.
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