The weather for the past several weeks have been wet and it was to my surprise that it didn't rain a single drop for the entire day. Taking opportunity of the dry weather, I decided to go for a macro photography session. As I did not go to the MacRitchie Reservoir Park for quite a long while, so I decided to go there this time round.
My macro photography setup over the years has always been mounting the big external flash gun from my previous Sony DSLR to my Sony A6000. Little did I realize that the weight of the flash gun has taken a toll on the flash mounting of my Sony A6000. The flash mount finally became loose and the flash trigger became very unreliable, sometimes can flash and sometimes doesn't. This is extremely irritating especially when you thought you have gotten a good angle and framing but failed to take a good photo because the flash didn't trigger.
For this trip, I decided to go without flash and depends solely on a circular led light that I mounted next to the camera. The reason for not mounting the circular light in front of the lens is to avoid the harsh circular hotspot. The idea of using the led light seemed like a good idea until I realize that I am sacrificing the deeper depth-of-field because of the larger aperture required, something that I have long forgotten because of the use of flash all these while. Because of this, appreciate your understanding that some of the photographs shown here have very shallow depth-of-field.
Here's a photograph of an attractive looking millipede. 
The trip was surprisingly fruitful with a number of beetles encountered even though I was not expecting much from the trip. The lesson from this trip is that I will still need to use flash for macro photography so as to deepen the field-of-depth, albeit a much lighter and smaller flash.
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