5 questions about this photo:
Q1. What equipment did you use?
Nikon D200 with a 50mm 1:1.8 D lens reversed on extension tubes. Flash was from the built in flash with a homemade softbox diffuser.
Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
ISO 200, shutter speed 1/160 sec.
Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
Photoshop 6.0. For the most part this image was straight form the camera, there was just minor tweaks to contrast and color balance, and I had to clone out some dust specks which is an unfortunate evil of using a reversed lens.
Q4. What is the subject of the photo?
A dragonfly
Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I had been photographing these guys on their perches but there is usually very little backdrop to bounce the flash back, so the background would inevitably be dark. I created a simple background in photoshop to give the flash something to reflect off of. In order to take this shot I had to hold the background at arms length and shoot with one hand. Anyone who does this type of work, especially with reverse lens because everything is manual, knows how difficult this can be.
Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
My advice would be to take tons of shots, out of approximately 50 shots maybe 5 to 10 will be useable, and experiment with different backgrounds as well. If you don't know how to make one, pull a leaf of a tree or find something on the ground. I have even used a discarded beer box for a background.
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