Better Equipment Means Better Photos - _TNY_0556
This amazing (and slightly over-the-top) design of a caterpillar is a vapourer or rusty tussock moth (Orgyia antiqua).
I've photographed these before, always on the leaves of the purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), and think they make great subjects for macro captures, but when shooting this one I was a bit annoyed as those fine hairs coming from the red spots kept looking jagged on the camera's display, like the resolution was really really low or something.
Getting them up on the computer monitor however I realized that it was actually the other way around. The hairs are in fact feathered and while previous attempts didn't reveal this, the Canom MP-E65mm lens at 1.5:1 magnification is good enought to pick this up.
Better Equipment Means Better Photos - _TNY_0556
This amazing (and slightly over-the-top) design of a caterpillar is a vapourer or rusty tussock moth (Orgyia antiqua).
I've photographed these before, always on the leaves of the purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), and think they make great subjects for macro captures, but when shooting this one I was a bit annoyed as those fine hairs coming from the red spots kept looking jagged on the camera's display, like the resolution was really really low or something.
Getting them up on the computer monitor however I realized that it was actually the other way around. The hairs are in fact feathered and while previous attempts didn't reveal this, the Canom MP-E65mm lens at 1.5:1 magnification is good enought to pick this up.