Yeah, a couple of inches away at most. I pretty much always use the eyepiece for shooting unless it's a tricky angle. I find it too hard to check focus in realtime on the lcd, even with focus peaking turned

lol, they are soooo cute.

There was that long action scene where they were being chased by the other merc which was made to look like it had no cuts in it. I think that went on for about 15 minutes. It was really well done but

Thanks.

Hey, As someone who used to have a LOT of chickens (i bred them - at one point had 300 birds with over 15 different breeds), I have a cool tip. A little bit of food colouring on the rear end will rub off

Editing???...straight out of the camera of course ... LOL

Hey, Its the Sigma 105 HSM macro and the diffuser for my flash is the one in this post

Love Mr Cox, saw him live in the UK early last year. Have you listened to the Infinite Monkey Cage podcasts from the BBC. If not, id recommend them.

All are shot with a special lighting setup outdoors. Hunt back in my blog a few weeks and theres a post about my diffuser setup. And yes, I do some postprocessing to stylise the images, especially the

Amateur

Thats cool. We did some work in our garden a while ago and found a load of glassware. One of them was an old lemonade bottle with the manufacturer's name on it. Interestingly, the manufacturer was

Cheers. I posted an image a week or so ago with a bee that was covered in pollen. Suprised it could fly to be honest.

It does give you that extra few megapixels that you really do need, as well as the 1.6 crop factor. This pic has actually been rotated 45 degrees so I did effectively lose maybe 1/3 of the pixels doing

Thanks for the lovely comment. Gotta agree with you after some reconsideration.

Ooh, red velvet mites. Nice image.

Interesting, the face almost borders on an illustration.

Thanks, much appreciated

Love the lighting but the 16mm focal length doesn't do it justice, a bit too much distortion for my tastes.

Some really lovely images here, congrats to the winners.

Cheers. I think they are cuter than some of your models to be honest ;)