Comments for Meet Your Neighbours: An International Nature Photography Project Celebrating Common Species Everywhere

Comment on Malibu Coast On White. by Clay Bolt

Clay Bolt — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:10:58 +0000

Hi Ariadne,

Glad you like them! Thanks for letting us know!

-Clay

Comment on Malibu Coast On White. by Ariadne

Ariadne — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:31:03 +0000

These are beautiful. Love the backlighting!

Comment on Kevin FitzPatrick Has One Sweet Ride! by Clay Bolt

Clay Bolt — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:38:54 +0000

Oh it will! Don’t you worry!
Clay

Comment on Kevin FitzPatrick Has One Sweet Ride! by Todd A.

Todd A. — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:07:40 +0000

I sure hope this thing makes it to New Orleans for the BioBlitz!

Comment on Add Alabama to the Ranks! by Add Alabama to the Ranks! : Meet Your Neighbours - Gordon McGlone

Add Alabama to the Ranks! : Meet Your Neighbours - Gordon McGlone — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:33:47 +0000

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Comment on Brachycephalus pitanga…Tiny Gems of the Forest Floor! by spicynoodle

spicynoodle — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:24:48 +0000

Amazing!

Comment on Brachycephalus pitanga…Tiny Gems of the Forest Floor! by Brachycephalus pitanga... Tiny gem of the Forest Floor!

Brachycephalus pitanga... Tiny gem of the Forest Floor! — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:10:27 +0000

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Comment on Add Alabama to the Ranks! by Spence Gilman

Spence Gilman — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:12:53 +0000

Beautiful shot!

Comment on MYN Photographers Spreading the Word in a “Big Way” by Meet Your Neighbours enters a new phase. NB | Niall Benvie. Clay Bolt. Paul Harcourt Davies.

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:00:24 +0000

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Comment on Meet My Neighbours by mattcole

mattcole — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:50:58 +0000

Thanks Niall, it’s nice to know that you think my lighting is OK. My set-up is very simple but I suspect it differs from most MYN photographers in that my front flash is provided by a heavily diffused MT-24 twin flash. This post on my blog shows how I diffuse the MT-24:

http://mattcolephotography.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/macro-flash-diffusion.html

The rear flash is simply a Canon 430EXII Speedlite placed behind (or underneath) the white perspex and fired as a slave from the MT-24.

I’m a big fan of the (diffused) MT-24 when using short focal length macro lenses so I was keen to continue to use it for MYN style images. The only problem I’ve found is that, when shooting larger subjects (e.g. large dragonflies), the lens obviously has to be further away from the subject meaning the MT-24 has to be further away from the Speedlite and, on occasions, the heavily diffused flash has failed to fire the slave. But I could usually get it to fire OK and for smaller subjects it seems to work fine.

best wishes

Matt