What is Lawrence up to - 2015?

[Scott Murray]

Now this one I am very, very happy with for a number of reasons - one of which is it was handheld.

I'm going to have to start learning the names of insects - I cant have 793682 "unknown insect.jpg" files

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Very nice Lawrence.

 

[Lawrence]

I went back to it and cropped it some more - which do you think is better [MENTION=9753]Scott Murray[/MENTION] ?

 

[Lawrence]

Looks too sharp to me now

 

[Scott Murray]

I went back to it and cropped it some more - which do you think is better @Scott Murray ?

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I think you may have cropped it a bit too much, quite liked how it was on the flower. But if you are to crop it I would remove some of the black to the right and allow you to see more to the left where the bug is looking.

 

[Lawrence]

^^^ I agree ^^^ Thanks

 

[Ironwood]

I think it's cropped too much also Lawrence. The insect needs to be a bit more to the left of the frame, and you need to give him back all his legs (my opinion only).

Great shot by the way, I quite liked it beside the flower

 

[Marilynne]

I like the first one better also Lawrence.

 

[wud]

Good looking stuff :-D

I think the face of the model on the couch suits her very well, don't know why you would want her to smile?

 

[Lawrence]

Good looking stuff :-D

I think the face of the model on the couch suits her very well, don't know why you would want her to smile?

In this one it suits her well but I took lots and she really only has this one look. Me I like happy

 

[Lawrence]

I spent some time this afternoon baiting ants with sugar. Had a lot of fun but never managed to get a whole ant in focus. Either the head or the bum but not the whole.
Just as I was packing up Inoticed this tiny little white insect walking about. He must have been less that 1/4 size of the ants (but didn't move as fast!)

I am continually amazed at how every insect seems to have little hairs all over their body and this little guy was no exception.

This is a very big crop. The difference between this and what LR and PS call 100% is bugger all.

Ugly little fellow just doing his thing.

 

[Lawrence]

Here is one of the ants. Pretty bleak but these guys move so fast.

And this photo clearly shows why a second diffuser would be handy. I learn something new every day.

 

[Lawrence]

And another ant.

Just love the gap between the main body and the head. Weird looking things when you look this closely.

 

[Scott Murray]

Great shots, they are fun to get photos of hey lol next time don't cheat and try it with no sugar even more challenging

 

[Roy1961]

yeah, no cheating Lawrence, i would use glue lol, great shots

 

[Lawrence]

My beautiful, amazingly talented and wonderful daughter.

 

[RON_RIP]

Have her face a little more toward the camera and smile. I really like the even tone of your light on your model.

 

[Lawrence]

Have her face a little more toward the camera and smile. I really like the even tone of your light on your model.

It was a purely candid shot Ron.
Turned out OK.
I want to have her as a model one day when she is in the mood - you know how children can be.

 

[RON_RIP]

Well, she surely has the face for it. Maybe if you tell her that you are not sure she is cut out to model, she might come around to doing it. You know how children are

 

[Lawrence]

^^^ roflao^^^

 

[Lawrence]

August is macro month for me and I discovered something amazing about macro photography today from a guy (very young) who has had his photos featured hundreds of times in National Geographic.
This was my first attempt at putting it into practice.
Very pleased with this shot.
That's me smiling.