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Anyone who has ever worked with Photoshop knows about the amazing corrections which can be made and the more difficult changes to photos using the tampon tool which enables one to wipe out small distracting details. However, the last two versions have included a tool, which until then, existed...

This is a shot I got this morning. It's a European Grass Snake taking a dip in the canal. D3100 Sigma 70-300mm at 150mm 1/200th sec, f20, ISO 800

This a a 5-minute makeover using CS5. It's far from perfect but shows what can be achieved.

This is one of the worst photos I have ever taken and yet I love it. The spider is out of focus except for the face and the main eyes are reflecting the leds of the ring flash. However, the side eyes seem so sad.

I caught thus one earlier today, though she immediately scuttled behind the dishwasher and refused to come out, in spite of all the flies I offered. Hoping for better things tomorrow. Looks like there's something not quite right with the length of the legs. D3100 40mm Micro lens 1/250th sec...

I think this is the one I eliminated the jpeg noise from the background. D3100. 300mm, 1/60th sec, f/14, ISO 100. PS. Should have said this was shot in NEF and artefacts only appeared later when converted to jpeg.

Was on my way home after a long, hard day at work and this flashed by my head. It's a Hummingbird Hawk-moth and, because it hovers rather than landing on flowers, it moves incredibly fast. No time for fancy setups, this was shoot and hope for the best. I think this was not a bad shot in the...

Anyone know what type of spider this is? With these incredibly strong legs, it jumps. 40mm, 1/30th sec, f11, ISO 800, Ring light

Hi folks! Latest offering from this afternoon. Yes, I know I should have used a higher ISO but the camera was set to 200 and I snapped. By the time I changed it the lady Ariadne had dropped out of sight. I tried to get as much DoF as possible by putting it to f11 so the speed is slow. Not much...

After buying my D3100 with the 18-55 kit lens, I bought the Sigma 70-300 Macro. I now have a Nikkor 40mm Micro which gives me brilliant results. However, I"m new to the macro game and would like to know if the 70-300 could give me better macro results if I added a set of macro rings? Would one...

My take on a fly.:eek: 40mm, f4, 1/100 sec, ISO 800, Ring Flash

It appears my first photos didn't get through so I'll try again. 40mm, f4, 1/640th sec, ISO 200, Ring Light 40mm, f5.6, 1/1000th sec, ISO 200

All those creepy-crawlies we learned to keep away from or killed when we were children. Suddenly, as adults, with a miraculous camera in our hands, they become like friends and we take shots of them from just a few inches away. Let's have your insect shots. The nastier, the better: bees, wasps...

Part of my job requires me to occasionally sit doing nothing on a canal bank. Yesterday, this took up an hour so I made use of it by taking photos. This is a young grasshopper I came across, about 1/2 inch long (13mm) D3100 Nikkor 40mm f2.8 Micro 1/640th, f3.2, ISO 200

Ants are definitely not the easiest of creatures to photograph, especially for the amateur who does not have access to specialist equipment. Firstly, this chap is quite big for those we find where I live but is still only 4mm long. Secondly, they never seem to stay very long in one place. I was...

Only just round to processing this after 2 weeks. Previous attempt at jpeg turned out rubbish. I took some specialist advice before attempting this because all my previous attempts at snapping the moon just gave me a white disk. It was suggested that the ideal setting was 125th at f11 and ISO...

I wouldn't want to get anyone's hopes up here. This is a simple photo I took while trying out my new Micro 40mm f2.8 lens. It's a great lens but you need to work a lot to get control of it. This was supposed to be a simple photo of a butterfly to find out how everything worked but then came...

Photography is in many ways a matter of luck. You happen to be on the right spot at the right moment and snap! you have the photo of a lifetime which can earn you a fortune. The vast majority of us will never know this pleasure and have to make do with lesser efforts. Most make do with a...

I took this photo this morning and am quite happy with it apart from the fact that the bee's wings are invisible. It was taken at max aperture f5.6 at 1/500th and ISO 100 in full sunlight. Since I only had a split second to change something, what could I have done to get the wings in there...

I took this photo a few days ago but only had a chance to look at it yesterday. Couldn't post it here until today due to the 24 hour rule, though it has been in my gallery since yesterday evening. Macro-photography has always been one of my passions but never had the material to do it. I'm...