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Please join us in sending love & condolences to our director for the unexpected loss of her beloved senior dog & bestie LADY BUG.
NOTE FROM OUR DIRECTOR:
Lady Bug Sempek was adopted into her family on May 27, 2006 and left this world on October 11, 2016 due to unknown reasons. She was a beautiful, compassionate dog who always greeted me with a big smile and frantically wagging tail.
Her favorite activities included snuggling, eating, and napping. A Pekingese mix, Lady Bug was surrendered to a shelter in Bowling Green, Kentucky where she was to be destroyed. A simple twist of fate brought this angel to me instead.
I can only hope she knew how much she was loved. She was truly my soul mutt and rescued me. During the past torrential years, she was my steadfast companion, one of the few constants in this life.
Rest in peace, my beautiful girl.
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>
work in progress
I love the series of "bugs in the house" - i have so much fun modelling these little fellows.
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.
Novelty bug cupcakes custom made to order for a 3rd birthday party. Featuring snails, caterpillars, dragonflies, ladybirds and bumble bees.
Seeing how many people we could fit into and onto this old Beetle. The bonnet eventually dented but the record was beaten with 88 people!
A bug that I got just one shot of before it hopped off (is it some type of plant hopper?). Taken at Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye.
A local footpath against the open space known as Bugs Bottom, which runs from Caversham to the edge of south Oxfordshire. (_4180542)
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! :)
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:
My garden's little helper....
I don't use any pesticide or non organic products in the garden, so these little helpers are more than welcome !
This is a wasp beetle and well versed in the art of deception. It's markings shout 'I'm a bad ass bug and I can hurt you' when actually it's just a harmless sheep in wolfs clothing.
I'm having a bit of a run on subjects that present themselves at the right time. This bug appeared as if by magic in our back garden for me to shoot. Looked it up on Google and thought this'll be perfect for MM!
HMM! Theme: Deception