Insect photography: Rapid Wolf Spider

**a4hire** · 10 December 2009, 06:44 AM

Nice picture. that is a cute beetle.

**steve.ledger** · 10 December 2009, 06:57 AM

Marks insect photography: Dragonfly, Flies and Beetle threads merged with this Wolf Spider thread.

**buckobeck** · 11 December 2009, 01:18 PM

Thank you a4hire.

**buckobeck** · 11 December 2009, 01:41 PM

Ladybug. Flower. Yellow. U huh, yup.

DMC-FZ7, 1/400Sec, F8.0, natural light.

**buckobeck** · 16 December 2009, 05:24 PM

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.

**buckobeck** · 22 December 2009, 05:57 AM

This is another dragonfly shot, one of my favorites. I like the angles and the blue and green colors.

**covoxer** · 22 December 2009, 08:55 AM

Wow! Nice one!

**cursor** · 22 December 2009, 12:05 PM

How do you manage to get close enough without encouraging the insect to leave the scene?

**buckobeck** · 22 December 2009, 04:02 PM

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.

**Soquili** · 22 December 2009, 12:44 PM

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.