Convergence
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Location
I took this photo at my backyard, on my very big passionflower plant.Time
I took this photo at morning of one of the most rainy day for this year. I was in home when suddenly the sun shone for 2 minutes, fortunately my macro equipment was ready to shoot beacause of previus macro set, so I ran outside and took many photos from the wet passionflower.Lighting
Im very love backlight, Im always searching for this effect at wadding and nature photography, its giving a special magic to the photos. Back light can be useful even at afetrnoon, if you shoooting above of you like bugs on a tree.Equipment
I used for this shot: Canon 7D with 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM and Gorillapod 3 (on my shoulders...) for stabilization. I took many photos beacause of the shallow DOF. I uploaded the best one to VB.Inspiration
Im getting inspiration from many Israely photographers and specialy from ViewBug photographers. I always loved macro, beafore 6 months I fulfilled a dream and bought the Canon 100 Macro L lens. Every time I went home I saw the beatiful passionflower and thought "this plant Must be photographed". I got the best chance at those stormy days.Editing
I think every photographer must do post processing to the most of his images, sometimes it save the image from the cycle bin. Of course post processing should be with some limits, its not painting at all... For this photo I think I just moved some sliders a bit, better colors, shadows, WB etc.In my camera bag
Usually Im photographing Jewish events so I have to take my whole equipment. but when Im going to shoot for fun I love take only the 7D with Sigma 50 1.4 ART, Canon 100 macro L and gorillapod 3 for stabilization (I dont love to use flash for macro, I prefer the nature light like the sun backlight), some times Im taking Sigma 18-35 ART for wide angle instaed of the 50 ART.Feedback
Taking beatiful macro shot is hard (for me at least), good lighting will hugely improve your macro photos, specialy backlight. Try to get shoot early at the morning/before sunset when the sun still low. Depending of your location, early in the morning may be beatiful drops of water on the bugs and plants. At lightroom if you have warm and cold colors at the same image, try to cool the WB so beautiful blue colors will apear. increase the warm colors at the HSL. Sometimes this method make very beautiful macro images!
