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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:
These amazing bugs can walk around on the Droseras and not be trapped by the sticky drops! The bug robs the plant of a source of nutrients,what the host plant gets in return is unclear.
The body,legs and antennae are sparsely covered with bristle like hairs.
lady bugs diserang semut, karena keterbatasan lensa dan skill saya, ya masih beginilah, mohon masukannya - foto ini diambil dihalaman belakang rumah
Thanks to striving67 - this is an assassin bug. It was on the gas pump as I was filling up and it was big.
Is it a resurgence of Bugs? I'm spotting more and more of these on the streets where I live. Better gas mileage or what other causes for reemergence of these funny looking cars.
:- )))
Just outside the building with all the bug displays is a wonderful flower garden. In addition to this one, there is a path through tall flowers and I loved walking through it. So peaceful.
Conveniently, a motionless bug was clinging on to the underside of the pot containing my fungi....seemed rude not to.
We get lots of these slugs in the evenings, especially around the dog bowl and they leave slimy trails everywhere! UGH!
Found out that it's a Leopard slug, and some cool info about it here:
summer bugs for one of my summer columns--so many different bugs, not enough time to identify them all....here is a beetle, katydid and and ant