Taken a year or so ago, decided to pull the finger out and process it. Processing macro images for me is a right royal pain in the you know what as it means getting rid of 300+ dust spots...that's not fun and takes around 20+ minutes of using the heal and spot and clone tools...and yes, I've tried to clean it with my rocket blower, does nothing - it appears that when I bought the camera, it had dust all over the sensor.
Thanks guys. Processed a few old macro images yesterday, will probably post later on today. Took a day off work with a crappy sinus headache and sore neck
Wasn't quite shot at 1:1 Marc - so I had a bit more DOF than normal. Even as a juvenile, it was 2.5cm in length or thereabouts I reckon. Probably shot at close to half life size.
This Summer has been very poor so far - I've seen very little in the way of life in the gardens - no grasshoppers or katydids yet, few Lynx spiders. Disappointing.
What a beautiful photograph of a beautiful creature.
I am almost 100% positive that you guys who do macro get the same feeling of joy out of capturing the macro world as much as I get out of capturing landscapes. It's all a means to an end, isn't it?
Well done. That's a corker of an image. Such beautiful soft colours.
That really sucks about having to manually remove the dust spots. Surely, you can send your camera in to Canon and pay to have it cleaned (despite how you may feel about their customer service)?
Great shot, isnt it amazing that because they are so small we dont pay them much interest, insects that is. And when you see them up close like this they really are beautiful, and scary at the same time.
H - you are right - there's a joy in creating any image I think, but those in our special area of interests gives us even more joy.
A trip to Canon has long been needed - not only to fix the dust on the sensor, but the FireWire port has long since been dead, and I suspect the SD slot isn't functioning properly either. Oh, and the microphone too...I bought this camera 2nd hand (it had 900 actuations on it) and I suspect I bought a dud...oh well.
Great shot, isnt it amazing that because they are so small we dont pay them much interest, insects that is. And when you see them up close like this they really are beautiful, and scary at the same time.
We don't tend to see them because they are small. A trained eye picks them up quite quickly - many a time I've been out with someone who's a non photographer, and they've been amazed at me finding them, let alone finding them so quick! My eye has lost a bit of its spark because I'm not doing as much macro work these days.
Mate, that is a top shot 
