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I met my dad this weekend for a hike at the Northwest river state park in Chesapeake, Va. We found a large amount of swamp lilies, but I only had my mp-e 65, so I just shot bugs. I did get very lucky and found a cold dragonfly, who let me get close enough for some 5x shots.

All of these were taken with my Canon 5d Mark II, Canon mp-e 65, and the Canon mt-24 ex twin flashes. The light is pretty hard, especially at 5x. I need to heavily diffuse these flashes. The 16 layers of tracing paper doesn’t seem to do enough.

Dragonfly at 1x

Dragonfly at 4x

 This next photo is a stack of two shots taken at 5x. Stacked manually with photoshop.

Dragonfly stack at 5x

Not sure what this bug is, i need to find my id books

Same bug as above but at 2.5x. I love those water drops