Long Jawed Orb Weaver
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In reply to Post #2475
Your spider images have inspired me to get out for the day with the macro lens.
How many shots do you take to get a good one, I seem to take loads.
The flower was a stacked image of 15 shots and I set the camera up so it picked up no light in the room then shined two rhino beams to light the flower so I had just the flower with a black background, I think it works quite well.
The second image the insect was less than 3mm wide, it was sitting on my backpack.
Your spider images have inspired me to get out for the day with the macro lens.
How many shots do you take to get a good one, I seem to take loads.
The flower was a stacked image of 15 shots and I set the camera up so it picked up no light in the room then shined two rhino beams to light the flower so I had just the flower with a black background, I think it works quite well.
The second image the insect was less than 3mm wide, it was sitting on my backpack.
In reply to Post #2476
I thought the second shot was a frog at first glance.
Nice work
I thought the second shot was a frog at first glance.
Nice work
In reply to Post #2476
Nice Ken
Nice Ken
In reply to Post #2476
I seem to take tons of shots for the odd keeper, I get loads like this
Just missed focus but enough to reject it
For any like this
I'd say I reject half my shots before they get to the computer, sometimes half of those that make it that far are rejected before import, and then maybe 10-20%of what's left actually get edited and exported.
My gardens pretty young so bug wise it's a bit sparse, plus I've had to rethink it a bit this year, it'll probably be a couple of years before I get a decent level of bug life which makes my macro stuff a bit challenging
It's been really frustrating lately, every morning my lawn is crawling with some large black and yellow wasps, they look like parasitic ones but they're so fast, unpredictable and skittish I just can't get a shot of them. If I was using film I think I would go bankrupt before I got one
I seem to take tons of shots for the odd keeper, I get loads like this
Just missed focus but enough to reject it
For any like this
I'd say I reject half my shots before they get to the computer, sometimes half of those that make it that far are rejected before import, and then maybe 10-20%of what's left actually get edited and exported.
My gardens pretty young so bug wise it's a bit sparse, plus I've had to rethink it a bit this year, it'll probably be a couple of years before I get a decent level of bug life which makes my macro stuff a bit challenging
It's been really frustrating lately, every morning my lawn is crawling with some large black and yellow wasps, they look like parasitic ones but they're so fast, unpredictable and skittish I just can't get a shot of them. If I was using film I think I would go bankrupt before I got one
Bush Cricket
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Literally anything from 1 shot perfect to 100+ and still no keeper!
With wild creatures in situ, you don't tend to have a lot of control over the situation most of the time.
That aphid(?) is well taken
Literally anything from 1 shot perfect to 100+ and still no keeper!
With wild creatures in situ, you don't tend to have a lot of control over the situation most of the time.
That aphid(?) is well taken
In reply to Post #2481
The cricket is quite sharp.
These are aphids being farmed by ants, would hate to be an aphid knowing what the ants do to them.
I took about 30 shots for this one and it isn't great due to windy conditions at the time.
Focus stacked dragonfly
But my local park Trent Park at 6.45 am seems okay. F22 to get the starburst of the sun
I was out from 4.30 am until 11.30 and these are as good as it got, but hey ho not to worry.
Its a bit like fishing to me, not all about the catching. Being out there doing it is what its all about.
The cricket is quite sharp.
These are aphids being farmed by ants, would hate to be an aphid knowing what the ants do to them.
I took about 30 shots for this one and it isn't great due to windy conditions at the time.
Focus stacked dragonfly
But my local park Trent Park at 6.45 am seems okay. F22 to get the starburst of the sun
I was out from 4.30 am until 11.30 and these are as good as it got, but hey ho not to worry.
Its a bit like fishing to me, not all about the catching. Being out there doing it is what its all about.
In reply to Post #2482
Some cracking shots again there Ken, love the jungle one too
Some cracking shots again there Ken, love the jungle one too
Getting a new camera seems a bit like getting a new landing net, I keep grabbing the old one so I don't get it dirty
In reply to Post #2484
That last one is so strange looking, its head seems large compared to the body.
Any idea what it is?
That last one is so strange looking, its head seems large compared to the body.
Any idea what it is?
In reply to Post #2485
The thorax is under the wings, I'll see if I can find a different angle of it in the morning, but it was black and yellow hoops. I'm no entomologist, anything like it gets called a wasp, bee or hover fly depending on hair, size or sting
The thorax is under the wings, I'll see if I can find a different angle of it in the morning, but it was black and yellow hoops. I'm no entomologist, anything like it gets called a wasp, bee or hover fly depending on hair, size or sting
Here you go, I'm saying wasp looking at wings and head, and I suspect it's a juvenile version of the bigger wasps I've been trying to shoot on my lawn. From memory it was about 15-20mm
The other ones are around 35mm and the thorax is proportionally bigger, and the yellow bands are thinner.
I suspect Paul will know
Kept waking up with coughing fits last night so I'll be at home today
Edit; could be a nomad bee?
The other ones are around 35mm and the thorax is proportionally bigger, and the yellow bands are thinner.
I suspect Paul will know
Kept waking up with coughing fits last night so I'll be at home today
Edit; could be a nomad bee?
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"Kept waking up with coughing fits last night so I'll be at home today
Edit; could be a nomad bee?"
If you're coughing up Nomad Bees you should probably see a doctor (do you have hives too?)
In all seriousness hope you're OK mate. Take it easy and bombard it with 4 Berroccas a day.
It's all new to me aside from the usual suspects so I sometimes spend hours searching for ID's, that's half the fun of it for me.
A lot of the time you find out you can only narrow it down to a Genus, Family, or even Order unless you start examining dead ones under a microscope!
I've quite a few "insect" pictures
It does look like Nomad Bee from a quick look at online images though.
This is a good one for spiders
https://www.naturespot.org.uk/taxonomy/term/19515?page=0
"Kept waking up with coughing fits last night so I'll be at home today
Edit; could be a nomad bee?"
If you're coughing up Nomad Bees you should probably see a doctor (do you have hives too?)
In all seriousness hope you're OK mate. Take it easy and bombard it with 4 Berroccas a day.
It's all new to me aside from the usual suspects so I sometimes spend hours searching for ID's, that's half the fun of it for me.
A lot of the time you find out you can only narrow it down to a Genus, Family, or even Order unless you start examining dead ones under a microscope!
I've quite a few "insect" pictures
It does look like Nomad Bee from a quick look at online images though.
This is a good one for spiders
https://www.naturespot.org.uk/taxonomy/term/19515?page=0
In reply to Post #2488
F****** hives
Was a bit worried this morning but not a squeek today thankfully.
Gave me a chance to play with the new camera between showers, will take some time to get used to it but the "pro capture" mode could be brilliant for macro, available light only but one of those folding diffuser/reflector jobbies should help.
Some extra megapickles and cleaner high iso won't hurt either.
Focusing wasn't great with a sigma 1.8 zoom so I don't think I'll get a 150-600.
Didn't realise Id need a mega fast card to use some functions(60fps raw excluded)
Even at a lowly 18fps I ended up with over a thousand crap photos to delete
F****** hives
Was a bit worried this morning but not a squeek today thankfully.
Gave me a chance to play with the new camera between showers, will take some time to get used to it but the "pro capture" mode could be brilliant for macro, available light only but one of those folding diffuser/reflector jobbies should help.
Some extra megapickles and cleaner high iso won't hurt either.
Focusing wasn't great with a sigma 1.8 zoom so I don't think I'll get a 150-600.
Didn't realise Id need a mega fast card to use some functions(60fps raw excluded)
Even at a lowly 18fps I ended up with over a thousand crap photos to delete