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Bug-In 38 - vw drag racing; custom car show, huge swap meet and vendor display at Irwindale Speedway
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I'd like to dedicate this picture to Boo because her pictures are very inspirational to me. It's an attempt to imitate her pictures. Very poor attempt... it still has a bug... as you can see... :-)
One of the vendors today at Folklife Festival was this guy who made things out of silverware and other various kichen utensils (such as these small colanders). Doug thought he'd try out a pair of bug goggles. Whadya think? It's a good look for him!
And thanks to all my wonderful twitter friends we have a "discovery" of the Mystery Bug. It is a plume moth...see it's wikipedia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterophoridae
Sharon (@sharritta) at 365Project.org challenge me this week to do a forced perspective shot.
I decided to combine that with a field trip to Victoria's Bug Zoo that I went on with an old friend.
I'm spending this week developing my professional web site (finally!), so I'm going to infill with some of the really groovy bug shots that I got on the weekend with my old friend LP.
This lady tarantula was quite tame. I even held her, which surprised me, as I'm quite terrified of spiders. Our guide put me at ease.
The Bug Zoo doesn't allow tripods, so lighting was definitely a challenge. I lost about 1/3 of my shots to camera shake and insufficient exposure. My macro lens opens up to f/2.8, but there's a lot going inside that lens that reduces its light output, so it's not a particulary fast f/2.8.
My VR macro lens has a 12" minimum focusing distance (close enough for me, thank you), which renders a wonderful 1:1 close up. However, as with any lens when you get this close, your DOF declines exponentially. Even at f/29, there's very little depth of field, and I couldn't get anywhere close to that, as it either forced an exposure too long to hand hold, or reduced my light to nothing when using the on-camera flash. I couldn't push it much past f/8.
Pushing the ISO to between 1600 and 2000 helped to shorten the shutter speed, but introduced a LOT of noise into the shot. Lightroom helped to mitigate that, but the adjustment brush liked to pick up the noise when Auto Masking while selecting each bug, making selection much more tedious.
I think next time I go, I'm going to rent a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. That should give me additional working distance, and provide me a greater depth of field at the same framing. I've shot with it before, and it's a *very* fast lens.
Very freaky viewed large.
Taken handheld with my Nikon D600 for 1/60th of a second at f/9, ISO 1600 with my Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR macro lens, using on-camera flash.
The whole set of high-resolution images from the Bug Zoo is avavilable on my Flickr site:
Mating pair on Bulrush (though only one just in focus!!) Was windy ... well thats my excuse anyway :))
Just got these beauties in the mail today! :) - I can see a Davis Leatherworks project and possible giveaway in the near future!
These bugs love the side of our 90 year old house and crawling through the opening between the windows, so I find them crawling all over my room, which gives me the creeps!
A road trip means lots of bugs lose their lives to your windshield. What's the last thing on their minds? Their asses.
Globular springtails on a rhododendron leaf about 5 foot above the ground. Body lengths around 1.3mm