Winter wasp Queen

Lord Vetinari

Saw my first Winter wasp queen out feeding and looking for a mate before hibernating for the winter. My only excuse for cutting off various bits of wing and antennae is it was moving around fairly fast .

Brian V.







Crop from above shot

GOLDENORFE

good find Brian, still seeing loads of workers around.
phil

crysjan

Wow! It's very sharp.
I love it! Do you mind sharing the settings?

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Saw my first Winter wasp queen out feeding and looking for a mate before hibernating for the winter. My only excuse for cutting off various bits of wing and antennae is it was moving around fairly fast .

Brian V.







Crop from above shot

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments Phil and Louisa

Louisa. Taken around 1.5:1 to 2:1 camera in manual ,1/200th ,ISO200, F10 diffused flash flash in ETTL mode, manual focus. Only trick with these apart from spraying some leaves with sugar honey solution to attract some bugs is, I was holding the leaf the wasp was on with my left hand and resting the camera lens on that hand to stabilise it. This makes focusing easier and also allows you to carefully move the leaf to get the shooting angles and background you want. I was also purposely shading the wasp from the bright sun either with my body or with the camera.
Brian v.