Craigspics: More Critters

Every night after dark I take a walk through my back yard. I like to look for something different in the insect world. August is also the best time for insects. When I take a picture, I try to find out what the insect is through the internet but I don`t find everything. It's probably the most time consuming of this blog, everything I photograph I like to put the subject`s name with the photo and if I can`t find it, I don`t post the photo, then I`ll forget those photos as I post new ones, So I have decided to just post these pics as I go for now on.

I love doing close up or macro photography. I don`t have all the equipment I wish I had but, I still have a great time using what I do have, untill I can afford to buy more. Right now I use a 2x teleconverter and other times I use a reversed 50 mm manual lens. My next purchase will most definetly be extension tubes. They have no glass in them, which produces better quality and can be used on other focal length lenses of the same make.
So here are a few more shots of various critters.

Equipment and Info

The photos I post here are taken with Sony Cameras, an Alpha 230 and an Alpha 580. I use 18-55mm, 55-200mm kit lenses, a Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM lens, Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 and Minolta 50mm and 28mm prime lenses reversed for close up/macro work, along with a macro bellows and a focusing rail and trigger with a wireless camera remote. My tripods are a Induro A 413 and a manfrotto 190Pro. I also use some other cheaper tripods like a velbon CX 686 and an old blacks metal tripod i bought back in 1986, which still works, I use these for holding various things such as flash units or holding or draping a background on or maybe a laptop stand out in the field. My flash units I use are a minolta 3600 HSD, Vivitar 285 HV, I use a dedicated flash cord for my minolta 3600 flash, a flash wave 2 Wireless radio slave and a couple of optical peanut slaves for the others. I also use a lumiquest soft box for my macro work.
My macro photos or should I say most of my photos are not cropped, I like to get my shots in camera and I rarely do focus stacks, only if I think the photo really could benefit from it but I really don't believe it's true to photography, but if I do I do it manually in photoshop. I do sharpen, saturate and clean up dirty sensor spots but I try to keep it to what I remember the actual subject looked like.
The insects I photograph that I capture, I always release where I found it.
If I photograph an Insect that can sting such as a bee or wasp, I place in a special container that I made for photographing them in, it keeps them and I safe and lets me get close and I can shoot them at different angles.To add to this list as of 2015, for portrait work now and the flash units for insects are 4 Yongnuo YN-560II, 2 Menik SW 400 mono lighs and a Mettle 600 AD mono light with battery pack. Modifiers are a 60 inch Lumahawk octabox, 2 24 inch softboxes and 2 12x56 inch stripboxes with grids. Then of course many more stands, a few air cushioned and some not. Also a reflector stand and 43 inch 5 in one reflector.
I think that I got everything here, If anyone has a question I would be glad to answer, you can leave a comment or email me at cj2492@yahoo.com or craigspics.tk@gmail.com.
Thank you for your visit.

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