Latest flash diffusion field test

April 13, 2015 PeteA

All of the winged variety of insects are from yesterday’s visit to High Wood, Badbury Rings in Dorset, using the Olympus 80mm F4 macro lens with my latest flash diffusion set up. The flash diffusion appears to be working reasonably well on the evidence of these latest results.

The Zebra Spider (Salticus scenicus), a type of jumping spider, was discovered in the back garden on the Saturday. This particular spider was approx 1cm in size so I had to use the Olympus 38mm F2.8 macro lens at 3.5x magnification to achieve a decent life size image.

Here are the photo’s starting with a couple of Bee’s, which I think may be part of the Andrena family of Bees.

A Dark-Edged Bee-Fly (Bombylius major) feeding on the nectar of a flower. The only disappointing part in this shot is what appear to be white flash hot spots on the petals of the yellow flower, probably due to too much flash lighting being put down.