Photo: Title Shot

This is the title shot to my new blog. It's a straight shot taken at Langley Camera Club in late November. According to the camera's meter, this is "radically underexposed", but I'm its boss and it finally got where I was going. My 70-300mm Sigma "half-mac" was used, almost all the way out to 300mm, at its minimum focussing distance, or close to it. Manual focussing was a departure for me, but I'm pleased with how this turned out.

Lighting was a pseudo blacklight (actually a purple tinted incandescent bulb), and a 250W worklight through an umbrella. Take that, multi-$1,000 studio lights! (Actually, I would still love some pro studio gear, who am I kidding...)

My gear probably cost half what some others' did, and I could get closer and higher magnification than they could. That's where thrifty shopping and research will get ya! :-)