10/29 bug bits

piggsy

E-P5 / Vivitar 135mm 2.8 Close Focusing / Raynox DCR-150



Super grotty stack of this that probably doesn't bear up to too close examination, but wow, that tongue went everywhere and it had to be removed from a different place in every single shot. Still cool getting one of it drinking where you can actually see the marks on the dew from it



E-P5 / Tokina AT-X 90mm F2.5 / Raynox DCR-250



Lucky here, Bokina detached from the lens adapter on its own (pulled one side of the mount out) and had to catch it one handed. Very lucky



Tiny leafcutter, I think. Getting to annoyingly small proportions. I know they're all similar but they took forever to get (and the stacking, oh god, the stacking). After my battery ran out I had to carry this bee 4 blocks home bouncing on the end of this piece of grass before it woke up so tough








" / " / Stack of DCR-250 and DCR-150






E-P5 / Tokina AT-X 90mm F2.5 / Raynox DCR-250



So cute, watched it catch this bug then race up out of the web to a piece of dead leaf where it would be camouflaged to wrap and eat it.



Lucky to get a handheld stack of this one. Was facing off with a very large orange lynx spider opposite it, high noon style, which I disturbed and the lynx made its way back down under the blade of grass.

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful selection of shots.
Brian V.

Stumblebum

Some incredible images! Bravo!

e6filmuser

An excellent set. Some unusual angles.

Harold

piggsy

Stumblebum wrote: »

Some incredible images! Bravo!

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Wonderful selection of shots.
Brian V.

e6filmuser wrote: »

An excellent set. Some unusual angles.

Harold

Thanks!

The third from last one of the jumping spider got picked up for flickr explore. Still a mystery to me how that happens, I'm starting to believe it just randomly picks a picture and shoves it in front of a few thousand people

Pulled the trigger on the Tamron 180 3.5 macro and a bunch of other stuff (pistol grip, couple of kamerar friction arms) to go with it for a setup. Should be here in the next couple weeks. This started out as a small camera I could use in one hand and now the setup is heading for about 2+ kilos of lens and flashes and braces around about 500g of actual camera

GOLDENORFE

Great series like the leaf cutter against blue background best

piggsy

Yeah I had a dilemma picking one out for it so I went with sticking a jacaranda and a marigold behind it so I'd have a backup if one didn't work at all. It was difficult to set up - the bee is basically black and white with just a tiny bit of colour in the eyes, so it's unimaginably dull on a black or dull colour background, and it was impossible to get anything to actually show up geometry wise to make it more interesting. The only one you can even make anything out is in the last shot, where you can see the folds of the marigold behind it. The bee is actually touching that with its legs on the other side! And that's at F8 or F11 or so (about a dozen stacked images to even get what you see in these). Didn't even come close to filling the frame at 1.85x so I stacked another diopter on it for about 2.23x and it still left a load of empty space even only having to fill about ~8mm

e6filmuser

piggsy wrote: »

Yeah I had a dilemma picking one out for it so I went with sticking a jacaranda and a marigold behind it so I'd have a backup if one didn't work at all. It was difficult to set up - the bee is basically black and white with just a tiny bit of colour in the eyes, so it's unimaginably dull on a black or dull colour background, and it was impossible to get anything to actually show up geometry wise to make it more interesting. The only one you can even make anything out is in the last shot, where you can see the folds of the marigold behind it. The bee is actually touching that with its legs on the other side! And that's at F8 or F11 or so (about a dozen stacked images to even get what you see in these). Didn't even come close to filling the frame at 1.85x so I stacked another diopter on it for about 2.23x and it still left a load of empty space even only having to fill about ~8mm

Interesting to see stacked diopters used. I haven't done that for a while.

Harold

piggsy

I put off getting them for ages thinking they would be crap, but they've been great. Only issue is that with stacking you end up really damn close to the end of the lens (like 4cm) - that's pretty much right on the end of 49mm hood I got for using the raynox diopters, and makes using it with the JJC LED ring light I use for working at night annoying. Very few things are neatly positioned where you can get a 12cm wide contraption right up against them 4cm away without hitting the thing they're sitting on. So I end up generally only break both of them at once out for something like this little bee that's asleep and mountable on the third arm thing I use

Thelensspot

Piggsy, nice set here! Very enjoyable. You have talent my friend.