Snowdrops & a couple of tiny critters

Now that snowdrops (Galanthus) are out a return to Garston Wood and to a known patch was called for at the weekend. I used both the Olympus OM4ti film camera (slide shots to be shown later once the roll has been developed and scanned) and also my digital SLR the Olympus OM-D EM-5 on this photo shoot. In addition for the digital photo’s I used a selection of colour cards placing them in the background.

Here with a single snowdrop

Blue card

Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR & Zuiko Olympus 90mm Macro F2 lens at F8.

Pale yellow

Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR & Zuiko Olympus 90mm Macro F2 lens at F8.

Pink

Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR & Zuiko Olympus 90mm Macro F2 lens at F8.

and then used with a bunch of snowdrops with 3 in focus at the front

Pink

Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR & Zuiko Olympus 90mm Macro F2 lens at F8.

Blue

Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR & Zuiko Olympus 90mm Macro F2 lens at F8.

and this last shot at a very shallow depth of field, F4

Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR & Zuiko Olympus 90mm Macro F2 lens at F4.

Once I finished shooting the snowdrops I decided to have a root around in the leaf litter and under dead branches in the search for tiny critters. I found this linear Springtail (Entomobrya nivalis). Due to their tiny size, approx 1-3mm in length and I had to use my Zuiko Olympus 38mm Macro F2.8 lens on the auto-extension tubes providing a magnification range of 3x-5x, along with twin macro flashes and wide angle diffusers.

The viewfinder in the Olympus OM-D EM-5 is quite dark with this set up, so next time I am thinking of taking a torch to light up the subject easier.

This is at approx 3x

Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR & Zuiko Olympus 38mm Macro F2.8 at F11.

The other critter found was this  Harvestman spider (Opiliones). This is at approx 4x

Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR & Zuiko Olympus 38mm Macro F2.8 at F11.

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