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I was shooting macros through the Sinar as it suddenly struck me that the peak of evolution, the perfection of nature, the crown of creation just might not be me but a bug in a rose.
Update ... turns out this is the 2nd record for Jersey rather than the 1st!! Just found out that Simon Robson recorded one previously tho was originally erronously ID'd as E. dominulus but is in fact E. ornata (his photo is on the British Bugs website under E. ornata) and the Channel Islands records only at present show ornata recorded on Guernsey and none on Jersey.
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 =)
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.
Reduviidae - Assasin Bug
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I decided that I had put the bug hotel on the wrong side of the garden, because the bees were ignoring it and going in the holes on the fence post on the other side. Within minutes of the change of location they were all over it!
This time of the year bugs are everywhere and they have a big fan...me 😄 The insect world is amazing! It's so worth to take a closer look.
Ambush bugs are tiny predatory insects that lie in ambush and snag their prey with their claws and hooks. They then poison and ingest their prey through a beak folded behind the face plate. These are images of fully mature ambush bugs. The early nymph stages have similar shape but often come in differing colors.
Positively un-macho phrase to emit while wielding a machine gun: "I'll merry YOUR melodies."
Tech. notes:
Exposure modified in Aperture.
A favourite bug to photo; so many people feel friendly toward ladybirds, it's totally endearing :) their bright red colour makes them a great subject.
Couldn't resist snapping this cute seven spot at my parents' house last weekend. When they saw this photo yesterday they told me the ladybird is still there! Must really love artichokes!
This photo was edited in Adobe Lightroom. Wanted to alter the colours slightly so gently messed with Lightroom's camera calibration colour sliders. Lots of fun! :)
Coloured bug hiding on Eucalyptus. Lake Macquarie, NSW Australia. Instar of the clown bug (Amorbus sp.)
Novelty bug cupcakes custom made to order for a 3rd birthday party. Featuring snails, caterpillars, dragonflies, ladybirds and bumble bees.
The Volkswagen Beetle, officially called the Volkswagen Type 1 (or informally the Volkswagen Bug), is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003. With over 21 million manufactured in an air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive configuration, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design platform anywhere in the world.