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Box Elder Bug
Just a one off shot. I have seen a couple of these guys lately. It seems that they like Maple trees and and I have a number of them on my lot.
This was shot with my 100-400mm which can focus fairly closely and can give a magnification level of about 1:3. I actually went inside after this shot and changed to a true 100mm macro lens, and although I did not have to crop to get to about this size, the DOF just was not there. When deciding to post it was a toss up between this and one taken with the macro and this one although not as sharp as the macro shot, it did have more of the bug in focus.
Not something I would want to see lots of, but it was nice to have a chance to get a shot of one, as they are kind of cool looking in my opinion.
EDIT: Many thanks to Tom Blandford for bring to my attention my mistake as to which lens I actually used. Looks like I ended up going with a macro shot and not a shot from the 100-400mm. I am a bit red-faced for getting it wrong.
Box Elder Bug
Just a one off shot. I have seen a couple of these guys lately. It seems that they like Maple trees and and I have a number of them on my lot.
This was shot with my 100-400mm which can focus fairly closely and can give a magnification level of about 1:3. I actually went inside after this shot and changed to a true 100mm macro lens, and although I did not have to crop to get to about this size, the DOF just was not there. When deciding to post it was a toss up between this and one taken with the macro and this one although not as sharp as the macro shot, it did have more of the bug in focus.
Not something I would want to see lots of, but it was nice to have a chance to get a shot of one, as they are kind of cool looking in my opinion.
EDIT: Many thanks to Tom Blandford for bring to my attention my mistake as to which lens I actually used. Looks like I ended up going with a macro shot and not a shot from the 100-400mm. I am a bit red-faced for getting it wrong.