Thanks, guys! Yes, it has been cropped. To be honest, I wasn
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Thanks, guys! Yes, it has been cropped. To be honest, I wasn
Another critter I found in my yard. Looks like my big dog dug him up. I was out filling the hole back in early this morning where I almost stepped on this guy. Odd thing is there is no water or creek near my house.
No crop with 5D2 at f/22, rocks set up in my studio with monolights and honeycomb grids.
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Oh, I like this shot Denise. You have kept the highlights in the flowers, eyes in focus, have all of the wings...I
Freelance, that is one ugly fish! Great capture and great light by the way.
This is about the most ugly thing crawling around where it was really tough for me to pick it up. All it wanted to do was get it's pinchers around my finger or hand. It even tried to battle with my miniature dachshund out in the yard. I love sicking my weenie dog on the critters that come into the yard even the non venomous snakes. Did I mention that anything insect like gives me the heebie jeebies! Sometimes I don't know how I can eat the farm raised guys. Seems like a pretty disgusting food source know that I think about it.
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Nice shot freelanceshots! Extremely sharp!
Just another butterfly pic ...
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Nice shot Denise. Looks like a catch-light in his eye. Did you use flash?
Mark
They might be ugly but they taste great! But then again I am a fan of seafood, I have lived close to the ocean for better part of my life so I guess that would expected.
Great capture,
John.
The little guy I photographed was a 2 inch crawfish/crayfish/crawdad/mudbug. It might look like an ocean going crustacean because you cant judge the scale with my photograph but they are typically pulled out of creeks, swampy areas here in the south. Just thought I clarify.
I guess I should have been more clear, I sometimes catch these guys in fresh water streams so knew that it was fresh water. But oyesters are even uglier, but I like
I have been using my 300mm for what seems to be a ton of macro recently. These had a 36mm tube and 1.4x tc attached. Thought I would share a couple. Sorry for those who don't like spiders, but these particular spiders, I think, are pretty cool.
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Agree Jason,2 thumbs up for the 300 f/4 L.
While technically not macros it's is a terrific lens for shooting close ups of insects and bugs.
(Canon 7d, iso 800, 1/250th @ f/9)
http://www.pbase.com/dtburkett/image...2/original.jpg
And while it's not the fastest focusing lens in the bag, it's a nice focal length to even be able to catch the occasional dragon in flight.
(Canon 7D, iso 400, 1/2000 @ f/8)
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"I'm the king of the black, white, and red tree!"
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(proof once again that you should always swap your rear lens caps when changing lenses, because you never know what is going to happen to it)
And the 'portrait' shot I got of him once he'd reached the top, then tried to climb further (not that there was anything to climb on to, except the front of my lenses, he tried that often enough)
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Where do you live to encounter a bug like that, at the zoo or a tropical rain forest?
adelaide, australia.
I got home and my 80 year old neighbour came in and said "look what i found on our grapefruit tree".
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Woah! Dr Croubie, with you being an Aussie.. I DEMAND more insect macros! [:D] I've heard you guys have some wild bugs crawling around down there.. like this guy. We don't have anything quite like that here in Utah. Very strange and exotic to me.
I've done some digging, and it's called Extatosoma Tiatarum, and they are endemic to Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extatosoma_tiaratum says they're only meant to be from up north in Queensland, so maybe this one was (descended from) an escaped pet...
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"I'm a scorpion!"
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Guy knows his quality lenses, he didn't go near the niftyfifty when I was taking shots using the L..
Also, for more weird bugs, check out these guys. We always called them "spitfires" as kids, and I thought they were caterpillars from moths or butterflies. Turns out that they're the grubs of sawflies, family Pergidae (related to wasps and ants), and they do indeed spit out some nasty chemicals to warn off things that might eat them. Always gotta be careful about walking underneath them, but then again you can't look up to see where they are or a dropbear will get you. Man this is a dangerous country to live in.
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And for no artistic merit, this is just to show what they can do in larger numbers (although that's nothing compared to some 'swarms' i've seen as a kid). This particular shot was in a eucalypt tree in a playground, directly over the swing set...
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What an interesting assortment of weird and wonderful creatures. Great shots everyone.
Here are some of the flora and fauna from my back garden today:
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1D Mark IV, EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/250s, f/11, ISO 400, Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX Flash
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1D Mark IV, EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/125s, f/22, ISO 200, Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX Flash
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1D Mark IV, EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/40s, f/22, ISO 200, Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX Flash
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1D Mark IV, EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/200s, f/16, ISO 400, Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX Flash
*knock at the door*
"What do you want to do with this creature?"
"Ok, i'll get my camera back out..."
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Who asked for more weird Australian bugs? No idea what it is, best I can think of is a Jewel Bug, family Scutelleridae. Forget my last comment from the birds i just posted, this is the lowest keeper rate i've ever had, this one shot is the best I could get. He wouldn't keep still, even iso400, 1/160s at f5 couldn't keep him in focus or still long enough, then once i upped it to iso800, 1/100s, f9 for more DOF i threw them all out, and he was in bright sunshine too. I gotta get a proper ringflash...
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Really nice shots, guys!!
Andy - I love the color in your last two shots and that is one sharp lens!
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Caught this honey bee collecting pollen from a wild aster.
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I really liked this shot because of the mother and nymph aphids that I didn't even notice when I took the shot. The bumblebee appears monstrous compared to the aphids.
http://trowski.com/files/2011-09-28/IMG_7671-Edit.jpg
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Great Shot! Sometimes there is a surprise in every shot. I like how the aphids even have pollen on them.
I see plenty of pictures of Praying Mantis, but have only seen 2 with my own eyes. First one was a long time ago and second was this weekend mowing the yard. I grabbed the camera, but didn't have my ideal set up to capture them any better. Here's what I captured...
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Those are really some spectacular macro shots Trowski & Jayson! I sure am going to miss shooting bugs in a few months!
One thing about it getting colder ...the bees get alot more cooperative to shoot!
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Denise---That
Denise, All are grrrrreat, but the third pic of the wasp is nothing less than spectacular---hang it, sell it---Nice work
I just now swatted this fly off the ceiling and it came to a rest on the floor where my rolling chair sets. I didn't notice its resting place at first but then I caught it out of the corner of my eye. I then saw all these little moving objects around it and then I went in for a closer look. Babies perhaps or some kind of parasite?
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swatted fly by freelanceshots, on Flickr
Freelanceshots----Those would be Maggots (fly babies)----This is one I am not going to thank you for sharing:) But on the bright side, Thats 13 flies with one swat---Nice job
Good, we don
Denise - my WI bee shots don't hold a candle to your #3! Wow!
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And a butterfly for good measure....
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Thank you! The lighting & sharpness on your shots is perfect and I love the creamy background!
When I was outside, I caught this guy trying to climb in my bedroom window! I took a few shots & ran inside to get an extender ...when I came back, he was gone! I think he succeeded on his mission!!
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Sweet!
Um, how big was that thing? Is this at 1x?
Thanks, Jon! It was just shot with my naked 100mm macro lens. He was an itty bitty thing and the image is heavily cropped.
This is the original ...excuse the dirty siding on my house!
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wasp that I pulled from certain death from the dogs water bowl where the temp outside had dropped 25 degrees over one day. f/20 and no cropping so my lens hood almost always touches my subjects to fill the frame with no cropping.
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Oh my...f/20. How long was your shutterspeed?
5Dtwo, 100mm IS macro, 1sec exposure, ISO 400, light from the window
With my camera and lens to get any DOF range I have to at least go that amount unless I want to step back and and then have to crop heavily into the image. I could use some extension tubes but that's on the back burner until I've got cash just sitting around. I think my insect photography days are limited unless bug photography business picks up.