It's sometimes really annoying to take photos from insects. You've prepared everything and you've been super careful the whole time and then... one wrong move and the grasshopper jumps away or the bug flies away. Or you've starte to take your stack and wind comes up or the sun hides behind a...
Follow on from someones query about shooting insects, this was my set up for doing Macro of spiders using natural daylight
(we have had some nice weather recently)
But you could also use constant light sources, or diffused flashes with this set up
I had no trouble with and reflection due to the...