My quest to get better at photographing insects/bugs. To make it easier, I'm trying with slow moving bugs - rather than cooling them down in the fridge.
The tutorial was a big help //www.popphoto.com/how-to/2008/12/how-to-photograph-insects?page=0,1.
Some things I did: captured RAW, converted to jpeg; cropped, rotated, increased saturation, sharpened, resized.
Used off camera flash with natural light.
Released the snail back into the garden.
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Great, a personal best! Nice to know I'm getting better. At this rate, I should be up to KarenNfld's skill level in about 10 years :).
I know its a snail, not an insect. The tutorial still applied. Several people got caught up in the entomology rather than the photography. No problem if they also commented on the photo. Thanks for those comments. But to those who only commented on the fact that its not an insect - come on! It's not like it was a tutorial on photographing elephants. Most of the tutorial applied. And I learned about compostion, shutter speed, ISO, and off-camera lighting for photographing bugs, insects, snails etc. Isn't that the important part?
As I am sure others have probably already pointed out, snails aren't technically insects. Regardless, this has no effect how I am socring it. I like the colors in the shell and flower.
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