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This is our all time great birthday party, my sons 7th. The theme was bugs. The party included bug mask making, bug cake, wall bugs, and best of all, bug blood drinks!
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Spotted this tiny bug while grilling. He was checking out the cockscomb by the porch, or maybe he wanted some grilled chicken. Nonetheless, he posed nicely for me. Not a clue what he is.
For ID please group: location in Atlanta area. Bug about an inch long, appeared cylindrical, seemed to simply jump from on part of the plant to another. I am afraid I missed him leaving but I assume he flies. Thank you for ID, speech path girl.
Assasin bug (Reduviidae), photographed at Chadron State Park, about 9 miles south of Chadron Nebraska on August 28, 2016.
This is a tough bug , it is eating a castor bean plant. Which is very poisonous. Blu one thing good about three flashes, no shadows.
One of the many impressive coreidae bugs that I have seen in this part of the world.
At present I have no exact ID>
For the Stobist Sundays theme - Hair Light.
Bugs has dark ears, and they often get lost in a dark background. I have tried to use a rim light in the past to provide some separation for his ears, but that's diffcult to aim since he moves around a lot during a shoot. This time, I tried putting a light above him on a boom. That worked much better since it as easy to see where he needed to be to stay in the light.
The hair light was in a small softbox, flagged on the back to avoid polluting the background. The light was boomed a few feet above him, which gave the light time to spread out and cover a larger area. That was convenient since Bugs was able to move without leaving the light. But it created a much different portrait than I originally planned. I had planned to put the key light in front and then just use the hair light to light Bugs's ears and the top of his head. Instead, I ended up using the hair light as the main light and my other light just for fill. (I think that I could have "fixed" this problem by moving the hair light back and then angling it forward so that it would fall mostly on his back and the backs of his ears.)
While this portrait is different than what I had planned, I liked the results. It also gave me a somewhat different look than my normal portraits of my dogs.
Strobist info:
* Key/hair light: SB-28 into a Lumiquest SB-III softbox boomed directly above the subject.
* Fill: SB-24 into a shoot through umbrella at 45 degrees just out of frame camera right.
* Fill: a white reflector at 9 o'clock may have also been providing some fill on camera left.
Triggered with RadioPopper JrX Studio triggers.
;Crunchy Bug ; is what we call them,because they're so hard to kill.Even when you step on them it takes a few stomps to make sure its dead and you can't just swat it with a fly swatter.
there's a weird tree in the back yard thats always had hordes of weird bugs on it. on a sunny day they cluster about. they may also cluster in the rain sleet snow & hail, i dunno. but they shine nice in the sunshine.
Spittle:
# This is the best and most fascinating part of the Spittle Bug. The spittle that the bug creates has several jobs. The first being that of protection from predators. It hides inside the mass of spittle and can't be seen.
# The second job is thermal control. The bubbles insulate it from heat and cold.
# The last job is that of protection from moisture loss. Without the mass of spittle surrounding it, these insects will quickly dry out and die.
# The spittle bubbles are produced when the bug moves it s body up and down in a billow like motion.
# As it is doing this motion, its body secretes a goo and air out of its anus.
# The bubbles are formed the spittle bug uses its hind legs to manipulate the bubble around its body, thus creating its home and protection.
ive called these fairies since i was a little girl...they only look like bugs when you get close to them....of course if you were a tiny magical creature wouldnt you turn into a bug when some human was looking at you =)
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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:
Photo © Lydia Marcus / www.lydiamarcus.com
Photographed February 8, 2009 near Route 66 in Barstow, CA
I was trying to take a photo of my daylily when this wee bug dropped in. He said he made the shot better.
I wasn't going to touch it, but the mantis was reaching out for me. So I let it crawl on me as it wished.