Ladybird 1 (IMG_9728)

I thought it might be a fun idea every once in a while to take a photo from my flickr photostream, and describe in a bit more detail how I got the photo. Today we’ll look at ‘Ladybird 1′.
This ladybird popped out of a lettuce, and I just had to shoot it. The lens was actually a Canon EF 18-55 mounted backwards to make a macro lens; a clever trick I found on the internet. It works very well, although of course with no autofocus you’re left swinging your head back and forth like a pigeon. The backdrop you see is actually our kitchen worktop, with natural lighting from the left supplimented with a plain paper reflector on the right and another sheet bouncing the camera’s flash from above. I love how the head on angle makes something normally thought of as cute and adorable frankly terrifying. Somehow this photo got quite a bit darker in the transition from Lightroom to Flickr, which is why it looks a little underexposed here.