Eyed Hawk Moth

Found this on the grass by a local industrial estate. Carefully took it back home to shoot under controlled conditions. Before taking it back and leaving it on a tree close to where I found it.

1Dmk11 100-400mm lens plus 1.4TC Bowens Monolite kit plus softbox. Black velvet background.

f22 at 1/60 ISO 100 slight crop

Hi John

Works well for me!

David

Fantastic John,
Love the background & simple stem. Well done.
Found a Lime Hawkmoth in work the other day but unfortunatly it was at the start of a 12hr nightshift. (Didnt want to keep it captive that long). That takes the hawkmoth worklist to 3.(Deaths head & Poplar also). Great idea though if you dont keep them for too long.

Good simplicity in the composition, not convinced on the lighting though, it appears (may be totally wrong here) to be rather flat on to the subject, I would perhaps prefer for the light to be moved to one side, (pref the long side, left...) with reflectors used to fill the shadows, this would give a shade more modelling in the specimen.

As presented it is certainly a stricking image.

I agree that the lighting does look a little flat but still an image i would love to have

Hi nice hawk moth not so keen on the background placing it on some tree bark probably would look better, I would not have minded to see the eyes as well on the lower wings.

Phillip.

Hello John
Many thanks for your useful information about how you obtained the image. I suppose the lighting is a wee bit flat, but I still like it.
Best wishes
Phil

Hi John

Nice technique to show the subject well. No real nits from me.

cheers

Sean

Beautiful moth and a great photo. So much depth of focus, it looks like you could almost run your finger over it and feel the scales!

Striking shot, yes.
Not really my cup of tea though
I agree with Mr Tomkinson's point about having it on tree bark, or somewhere you would associate it with in the outdoors.

John