Thematic Show me your insects

BillM · 09-03-2011, 03:30 AM

From couple days ago,been so windy dragonfly kinda emblematic of conditions...
'just hold on and hope for the best'

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photolady95 · 09-03-2011, 07:37 AM

Nice capture Bill. I had this same problem but those I saw weren't landing.

**Canada_Rockies** · 09-03-2011, 09:31 AM

I had the same problem with "oversized" pictures, and Adam pointed out that I can set a maximum viewing size in my preferences. That solved the problem for me. Have you tried that?

Paleo Pete · 09-03-2011, 04:38 PM

Yeatzee - Great shots there. No way I could carry that rig around with me, I shoot all hand held with extension tubes so I can be mobile. sometimes with flash, sometimes without.

Here are a couple of recent ones, I'll have to di a bit for some of the other ones.

Close up crop of a grasshopper taken August 15. Got some nice full body shots, but this one had good enough detail to crop in really close, and I like getting close detail of insects and flowers you normally don't see that close. Until I started doing macro last year I Had no idea what many insects and tiny flowers actually looked like up close.

That's the reason I started the Tiny Flowers thread. Most people walk right by White Clover every day and never really take a close look and see what it actually looks like., I was amazed...same as the grasshopper below, before I got into macro photography I just saw a brownish grasshopper jump away from me when I walked near it. I had no idea what kin of tiny details were there if I just looked a bit closer.

Grasshopper taken in august.

Click image to view larger size.

Small bee taken a couple of weeks earlier. This one is a bit over a half inch long. This was the only shot that came out decent, this guy refused to sit still.

Click image to view larger size.

Another smaller bee, this picture taken earlier than both of the previous ones. He's sitting on a Coreopsis flower, the middle red/brown section about the size of a pencil eraser. This bee is under a half inch long.

Click image to view larger size.

Damselfly earlier this summer. This one didn't want me close, it took more than a dozen tries before it finally sat still for a few minutes and let me get close enough for some shots.

Click image to view larger size.

Most of these already posted in other threads somewhere along the way.

**Canada_Rockies** · 09-03-2011, 04:52 PM

Originally posted by Paleo Pete

Most of these already posted in other threads somewhere along the way.

Great work, Pete.

Paleo Pete · 09-05-2011, 09:02 AM

Thanks Canada.
Couple more I just uploaded.

Dragonfly. Exif says it was the 200 mm lens, but it was actually the Lentar 135, I forgot to change it when I swapped lenses. I just thought birds in flight were tough...try a dragonfly sometime. Birds are a walk in the park.

Click image to view larger size.

Locust having a bad day. This shot is actually a mistake, I was trying to focus on the bird, not the bug (didn't even know it was there, just knew the bird was suddenly moving a lot. A few seconds earlier it was just sitting there, posing I guess)...as you can see, I missed badly and got the bug instead...Taken with Vivitar 200mm. I saw this through the viewfinder, so I never knew the bug was there until I looked at the display later. The Cardinal was just sitting there and I got a few nice shots, and one of him flying to this spot too, it's posted elsewhere I think. I saw the activity but didn't know what he was up to till later.

Click image to view larger size.

Robber Fly having dinner. This was taken in a friend's front yard while we were recording a song (musicians I was in a band with 10 years ago). We took a short break, I tried to get this Robber Fly's picture and he moved after a couple of shots. When I found him again he was having dinner.

Click image to view larger size.

One of my favorite grasshopper shots. Taken last year with my binocular lens macro rig. Late in the day but light was still very good, I was able to bring the aperture down to f16 and maybe f22, in natural light and this guy sat there long enough I got at least a dozen nice shots. Shutter speed 1/500, so at f16 or f22, the light had to be plenty bright. But I wanted plenty depth of field and I got it. It took a while, this was a pretty big grasshopper, over 2 1/2 inches long, and he moved several times before finally deciding to sit still for a bit. When I get home in a few days I might dig up the close up crop and post it. Excellent detail. This was with a Pentax 50mm A series lens. I shot both f16 and f22, but don't remember which was used for this shot, f22 I think but not positive.

Click image to view larger size.

BillM · 09-05-2011, 04:12 PM

Looks like cardinal has a tasty treat there Pete.Cicadas still coming off here,birds are eating well. Green darner dragonfly from 'pooch walk' this morning.

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**Canada_Rockies** · 09-05-2011, 09:30 PM

NSFW if you happen to be a carnivorous insect, that is.
K10D, 1/250@5.6, DA* 50-135 + AFA 1.7x, ISO 200
I got two fly bites chasing these red angels, so I really want them to succeed in their "marriage". I went through yesterday's shots three or four times before I realized exactly what was going on here. I would have needed more time than I had to chase them down to get them from the side to maintain depth of field. They are insects, so ...

**noelcmn** · 09-06-2011, 03:54 AM

Hi Photolady and others, there was an insect thread started by me a while back, but it died a natural death-or myabe I called it something else. So glad that this thread is getting a much better response. Some from my collection:
Moth in my bathroom

Robber fly that came into the house.

This Robber fly on a yellow rose. Front view, side view, back view

Not sure what this is, but again it was in my home, and I played around with light from a torch. Liked the way the front legs came out luminous.

photolady95 · 09-06-2011, 06:09 AM

I found your thread after I put this one up (it shows in related threads at the bottom of the pages). Yours was started in November 2010, and ran til January 2011. Title just said Insects. Here, in that time frame, insects are hiding. Perhaps that's why your thread didn't go any further. Who knows, eh.

Nice insects noel. I like the moth. I can never get them to turn facing me, they are usually on my ceiling or the wall but facing up toward the ceiling. The Robber Fly shots are great too. I have only seen one here, and he was floating in my bird bath, he was struggling to get out so I took a stick, he climbed up on it, and I released him. So, I saved a fly but got no photo of it.

The last one, could be a crane fly or a mosquito. Hard to tell when most of it is oof.

yeatzee · 09-06-2011, 08:08 AM

Originally posted by photolady

The last one, could be a crane fly or a mosquito. Hard to tell when most of it is oof.

its a crane fly

Originally posted by Paleo Pete

Yeatzee - Great shots there. No way I could carry that rig around with me, I shoot all hand held with extension tubes so I can be mobile. sometimes with flash, sometimes without.

Its not to bad, but it is very specialized. Only works for early morning stacks of living subjects or pictures of dead ones

Remember, I used to exclusively shoot field macro's

Extension tubes and a flash is my bread and butter

**noelcmn** · 09-07-2011, 01:59 AM

Hi Photolady,

Gladly defer to this thread. Thanks for your comments. That moth was not interested in moving anywhere, so I had plenty of opportunity there. That's a towel it is on, and all I needed to do was move the carpet around a bit.

photolady95 · 09-13-2011, 01:27 PM

Got a couple of new photos of insects this afternoon at my sister's house where I went to set up her new wireless printer. Done that then grabbed the camera and Sigma 70-300mm lens.

We call the first one, Banana Spider, I'm sure there is another name for them but I don't know what it is:

And a blue darner dragonfly: Course he has his back to me.

hangman43 · 09-13-2011, 01:39 PM

Sakar 80-200mm
1/500 at F8
ISO200
Just a quick snap

yeatzee · 09-13-2011, 01:59 PM

Originally posted by photolady

Got a couple of new photos of insects this afternoon at my sister's house where I went to set up her new wireless printer. Done that then grabbed the camera and Sigma 70-300mm lens.

We call the first one, Banana Spider, I'm sure there is another name for them but I don't know what it is:

Argiope aurantia

09-05-2011, 09:30 PM	#68
Canada_Rockies Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Sparwood, BC, Canada Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,385	Not the best image, but the action is er, um ....NSFW NSFW if you happen to be a carnivorous insect, that is. K10D, 1/250@5.6, DA* 50-135 + AFA 1.7x, ISO 200 I got two fly bites chasing these red angels, so I really want them to succeed in their "marriage". I went through yesterday's shots three or four times before I realized exactly what was going on here. I would have needed more time than I had to chase them down to get them from the side to maintain depth of field. They are insects, so ... Attached Images

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09-03-2011, 07:37 AM	#62
photolady95 Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: May 2009 Location: Cruising the forum watching his back Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,712 Original Poster	Nice capture Bill. I had this same problem but those I saw weren't landing.

09-03-2011, 09:31 AM	#63
Canada_Rockies Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Sparwood, BC, Canada Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,385	I had the same problem with "oversized" pictures, and Adam pointed out that I can set a maximum viewing size in my preferences. That solved the problem for me. Have you tried that?

09-03-2011, 04:38 PM	#64
Paleo Pete Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Texas Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 2,880	Yeatzee - Great shots there. No way I could carry that rig around with me, I shoot all hand held with extension tubes so I can be mobile. sometimes with flash, sometimes without. Here are a couple of recent ones, I'll have to di a bit for some of the other ones. Close up crop of a grasshopper taken August 15. Got some nice full body shots, but this one had good enough detail to crop in really close, and I like getting close detail of insects and flowers you normally don't see that close. Until I started doing macro last year I Had no idea what many insects and tiny flowers actually looked like up close. That's the reason I started the Tiny Flowers thread. Most people walk right by White Clover every day and never really take a close look and see what it actually looks like., I was amazed...same as the grasshopper below, before I got into macro photography I just saw a brownish grasshopper jump away from me when I walked near it. I had no idea what kin of tiny details were there if I just looked a bit closer. Grasshopper taken in august. Click image to view larger size. Small bee taken a couple of weeks earlier. This one is a bit over a half inch long. This was the only shot that came out decent, this guy refused to sit still. Click image to view larger size. Another smaller bee, this picture taken earlier than both of the previous ones. He's sitting on a Coreopsis flower, the middle red/brown section about the size of a pencil eraser. This bee is under a half inch long. Click image to view larger size. Damselfly earlier this summer. This one didn't want me close, it took more than a dozen tries before it finally sat still for a few minutes and let me get close enough for some shots. Click image to view larger size. Most of these already posted in other threads somewhere along the way.

09-03-2011, 04:52 PM	#65
Canada_Rockies Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Sparwood, BC, Canada Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,385	Originally posted by Paleo Pete Most of these already posted in other threads somewhere along the way. Great work, Pete.

09-05-2011, 09:02 AM	#66
Paleo Pete Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Texas Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 2,880	Thanks Canada. Couple more I just uploaded. Dragonfly. Exif says it was the 200 mm lens, but it was actually the Lentar 135, I forgot to change it when I swapped lenses. I just thought birds in flight were tough...try a dragonfly sometime. Birds are a walk in the park. Click image to view larger size. Locust having a bad day. This shot is actually a mistake, I was trying to focus on the bird, not the bug (didn't even know it was there, just knew the bird was suddenly moving a lot. A few seconds earlier it was just sitting there, posing I guess)...as you can see, I missed badly and got the bug instead...Taken with Vivitar 200mm. I saw this through the viewfinder, so I never knew the bug was there until I looked at the display later. The Cardinal was just sitting there and I got a few nice shots, and one of him flying to this spot too, it's posted elsewhere I think. I saw the activity but didn't know what he was up to till later. Click image to view larger size. Robber Fly having dinner. This was taken in a friend's front yard while we were recording a song (musicians I was in a band with 10 years ago). We took a short break, I tried to get this Robber Fly's picture and he moved after a couple of shots. When I found him again he was having dinner. Click image to view larger size. One of my favorite grasshopper shots. Taken last year with my binocular lens macro rig. Late in the day but light was still very good, I was able to bring the aperture down to f16 and maybe f22, in natural light and this guy sat there long enough I got at least a dozen nice shots. Shutter speed 1/500, so at f16 or f22, the light had to be plenty bright. But I wanted plenty depth of field and I got it. It took a while, this was a pretty big grasshopper, over 2 1/2 inches long, and he moved several times before finally deciding to sit still for a bit. When I get home in a few days I might dig up the close up crop and post it. Excellent detail. This was with a Pentax 50mm A series lens. I shot both f16 and f22, but don't remember which was used for this shot, f22 I think but not positive. Click image to view larger size.

09-06-2011, 03:54 AM	#69
noelcmn Site Supporter Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: South Africa-Johannesburg Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 46,166	Hi Photolady and others, there was an insect thread started by me a while back, but it died a natural death-or myabe I called it something else. So glad that this thread is getting a much better response. Some from my collection: Moth in my bathroom Robber fly that came into the house. This Robber fly on a yellow rose. Front view, side view, back view Not sure what this is, but again it was in my home, and I played around with light from a torch. Liked the way the front legs came out luminous.

09-06-2011, 06:09 AM	#70
photolady95 Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: May 2009 Location: Cruising the forum watching his back Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,712 Original Poster	I found your thread after I put this one up (it shows in related threads at the bottom of the pages). Yours was started in November 2010, and ran til January 2011. Title just said Insects. Here, in that time frame, insects are hiding. Perhaps that's why your thread didn't go any further. Who knows, eh. Nice insects noel. I like the moth. I can never get them to turn facing me, they are usually on my ceiling or the wall but facing up toward the ceiling. The Robber Fly shots are great too. I have only seen one here, and he was floating in my bird bath, he was struggling to get out so I took a stick, he climbed up on it, and I released him. So, I saved a fly but got no photo of it. The last one, could be a crane fly or a mosquito. Hard to tell when most of it is oof.

09-06-2011, 08:08 AM	#71
yeatzee Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Temecula Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 3,675	Originally posted by photolady The last one, could be a crane fly or a mosquito. Hard to tell when most of it is oof. its a crane fly Originally posted by Paleo Pete Yeatzee - Great shots there. No way I could carry that rig around with me, I shoot all hand held with extension tubes so I can be mobile. sometimes with flash, sometimes without. Its not to bad, but it is very specialized. Only works for early morning stacks of living subjects or pictures of dead ones Remember, I used to exclusively shoot field macro's Extension tubes and a flash is my bread and butter

09-07-2011, 01:59 AM	#72
noelcmn Site Supporter Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: South Africa-Johannesburg Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 46,166	Hi Photolady, Gladly defer to this thread. Thanks for your comments. That moth was not interested in moving anywhere, so I had plenty of opportunity there. That's a towel it is on, and all I needed to do was move the carpet around a bit.

09-13-2011, 01:27 PM	#73
photolady95 Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: May 2009 Location: Cruising the forum watching his back Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,712 Original Poster	Got a couple of new photos of insects this afternoon at my sister's house where I went to set up her new wireless printer. Done that then grabbed the camera and Sigma 70-300mm lens. We call the first one, Banana Spider, I'm sure there is another name for them but I don't know what it is: And a blue darner dragonfly: Course he has his back to me.

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09-13-2011, 01:39 PM	#74
hangman43 Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Hueytown, Alabama Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,508	Sakar 80-200mm 1/500 at F8 ISO200 Just a quick snap

09-13-2011, 01:59 PM	#75
yeatzee Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Temecula Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 3,675	Originally posted by photolady Got a couple of new photos of insects this afternoon at my sister's house where I went to set up her new wireless printer. Done that then grabbed the camera and Sigma 70-300mm lens. We call the first one, Banana Spider, I'm sure there is another name for them but I don't know what it is: Argiope aurantia