Macro Nature Photography

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If this works, it will show basically how I take the pictures. A burst shot of 10 pics at 10fps, it repeats in reverse in the gif. I am actually moving the camera in the opposite direction that you think to change focus. It's a view of a little dead pine twig. Strangely the gif maker added clusters of red dots.

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I haven't saved up for fancy editing software yet, so I have to settle for water marks and shallow depth of field. I sampled Alien Skin which is a lot like lightroom, which I've also tried, and I really like the clarity and vivid features. I think I prefer Windows photo gallery for sharpening and/or noise reduction, I can't remember which. Alien Skin had a blow up program where I'd make 72 megapixel pictures. It just costs too much time and money to buy and master the editors I want.

Here is my first try at a video with my WX220. It has a flaw where it over exposes both pictures and videos. Notice the pine needles for size reference of the little light colored mite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikcGuEM6wYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoo_7OcNxpc

And here's my best video below, only view it in 1080HD. The wind made it shaky. I used the HX80 where I could set the aperture to f8. I had to reduce the play speed some, and use a stabilizing feature to reduce the minuscule shaking from my young steady hands.

https://youtu.be/nrrezmqinD8


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Tiny beetle in an ant hill
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WARNING, these bugs are UGLY, with ugly parasites on them too

I think they are some kind aphid since they are numerously under leaves and frequently visited by ants. First time I've seen them

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The hairy eyes on these aphids are what's ugly to me, if those are the eyes. Some insects have false eyes.
 
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