These like to come in the house sometimes. Here's one trapped in my bathtub, they're big but harmless.
Taken with a Panasonic DMC-FZ8, tripod, and a strategically placed household lamp. LOL
Mark (aka buckobeck)
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These like to come in the house sometimes. Here's one trapped in my bathtub, they're big but harmless.
Taken with a Panasonic DMC-FZ8, tripod, and a strategically placed household lamp. LOL
Mark (aka buckobeck)
Looks nasty! Looks like a drawing, too. Thanks for sharing, Mark (I think). :D
Saludos,
Bob.
I know what you mean Bob, LOL. Your welcome.
Mark(aka buckobeck)
The bathtub gave it a clean background. That's why it looks like drawing.
Spectacular shot. :)
Here's a shot of a territorial male dragonfly exhibiting his perching posture. This photo - as with many I shoot - was taken at my frog ponds.
Taken with a Panasonic DMC-FZ7.
Mark (aka buckobeck)
Yup, I'll take a picture of any kind of critter. Here's a couple of flies to prove it. If you look real close you can see my reflection on the water droplet in the mouth of the one fly.
Those are amazing photos. Thanks for sharing!
Agreed - good shots Mark.
Camera? Lens? EXIF?
Curtis. Your welcome, and thankyou.
Sledger. Thanks.
Fly with droplet. Lumix DMC-FZ8, DMW-LC55 close-up lens, 1/100Sec, F3.3, natural light.
Fly without droplet Lumix DMC-FZ7, DMW-LC55 close-up lens, 1/160Sec, F5.6, natural light.
It may be hard to believe, but this is a small tortoise shell beetle. Here it is seen posing on my little finger for scale effect. Most people probably don't notice them because of their diminutive size. Think about it.
Nikon D-50, 60mm micro lens with 4x diopter, F18.0, 1/250S, flash, manual exposure.
Nice picture. that is a cute beetle.
Marks insect photography: Dragonfly, Flies and Beetle threads merged with this Wolf Spider thread.
Thank you a4hire.
Ladybug. Flower. Yellow. U huh, yup.
DMC-FZ7, 1/400Sec, F8.0, natural light.
Caught this bush katydid just as the sun was going down.
Another beauty, your backyard must be infested with bugs, beasties and birds, I've had a browse through your Flikr photostreams, you've been busy over the years ;)
Thanks Sledger. It's actually been a year, or maybe two, since I've taken any photographs. Just haven't made the time lately.
I live in the Ozarks and there is quite a lot of beasties and bugs.
I've always liked Milkweed bugs, here's one of my favorite shots.
I know it's not an insect but I don't have enough mollusks to start a new thread. LOL Caught this one on a rock by one of my frog ponds.
This is another dragonfly shot, one of my favorites. I like the angles and the blue and green colors.
Wow! Nice one! <:)
How do you manage to get close enough without encouraging the insect to leave the scene?
Very nice dragonfly Mark.
I hope you don't mind I made a palette file from some of the colours.
It is a Photoshop type swatches file that can be used in Xtreme as well as some other applications.
For use with Xara Xtreme simply unzip the .aco file to your Palettes folder.
For Xara Xtreme Pro 5.1 that would be C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Xtreme Pro 5\Palettes
Start Xtreme then open the Color Gallery. Right click on the Dragonfly_by_MarksRGBD65 folder and click on the Show on Color Line option.
The palette was created using myPANTONE Palettes version 1.5 available for free at Pantone.com. http://www.pantone.com/pages/MYP_myp...pg=19567&ca=75 scroll down to find the myPANTONE palette download link. You will need to sign up for free with myPantone to get the free application.
I used to do a lot of this kind of photography when I had the time and ambition. Sold off all my macro equipment, but would like to get back to it some day. Attached is one of my favorites (favourites?). We call it a Praying Mantis.
Nice shot Jim. Looks like she is ready to deposit her eggs in an egg sack.
Praying Mantis are smart and patient. I watched a small male catching flies one night. He would move slowly and get as close as he could to a fly then wait for it to move closer. Then one lightening fast move and the fly was his. This was repeated many times. :D
John - Thanks
Curtis - I took this picture with my old DMC-FZ7. The close-up lens made for this camera requires you to be about 18 inches away from the subject, which seems to be a comfortable distance for most dragonflies.
Bill - Thank you. The palette you created from the photo has a nice color combination. I am going to unzip into my copy of Xtreme when I get home tonight and check it out.
Jimhanus - I like your picture of the Praying Mantis. I know what you mean about the time and ambition, hope to get my ambition back next spring. Haven't photographed in over a year, though I did hang on to my cameras.
I have a macro lighting rig on my wish-list so I will not be limited to photographing with natural light.
Poor "bug"gers! :eek:
Steve, only if he is ever reincarnated. :D
The Praying Mantis had a large meal that night. >:)
Buckobeck,
Portable lighting was always difficult. I tried different flash setups with a bellows at 1:1 and more but never could get it to look like I wanted it to (see attached). Always wanted to try a ringlight but too expensive. What lighting are you interested in? There were originally done on 35mm Kodachrome at least 15 years ago and now scanned on a Canon 8600F.
Hi Jimhanus,
I have been looking at the ring light flashes with TTL metering technology. They seem to by reasonably priced these days and I have found some as cheap as 110 dollars.
I've also been wondering what would be the best way to achieve even higher magnification, you seem knowledgeable, what do you think?
I know what you mean by the look. Very few of my photos suit me well enough to show and invariably fall prey to the delete button. Sounds like you might be picky also. I like the shots that you've posted here; by the way.
I took over seventy shots in this particular session. This is the only one I kept.
Nice shot, I like the wing detail.
I always went for absolute quality over convenience, so I used a macro lens for 1:2 magnification and a quality bellows with a 50mm or 75mm enlarger lens on it for 1:1 or more. Enlarger lenses are designed as flat field lenses, made to be used with a flat piece of film and projecting onto a flat piece of paper so there's no distortion in the corners or edges.
Ring lights back then were rare and in the $250-300 range. Too rich for me even today.
Jim
Thanks for the information Jim.
Have you ever seen one of these? It's called a wheel-bug and I'm told the bite is extremely painful, though I don't now from experience.
Never even heard of it!
Let us know if the next one bites...;)
LOL. Hope that's one message I never have to relay.
This Metallic Green Tiger Beetle was shot using a Panasonic DMC-FZ8.
Hi folks. Here's a new insect photo. This one is a small mantis.
Taking pictures of insect and other small creatures is another one
of my other favorite things.
Do we have any other bug lovers out there?
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