Larva of Scarlet Tiger Callimorpha dominula
e6filmuser
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My wife asked me if I had removed a caterpillar from her Streptocarpus plant. I said that I didn't know it was there. The next day I spotted it myself and took quite a few pictures.
It was on one of the lower leaves and the many, large, strap-shaped leaves made framing and lighting the larva difficult. Up to triple flash was used and, at times, fill flash on either side or both sides was switched off, to avoid green light from obstructing leaves featuring.
EM-1 (Manual Mode 1/250 second ISO 400), extension, Printing Nikkor 150mm, FOV 17mm wide, f11, hand-held. (I had to take a short rest after each shot, due to the weight).
With the reared-up larva I had only time for one shot of each.
There is a cross-eye stereo which could be more effective but the frames were not shot for this purpose.
All images have been cropped. The larva was ca 15mm long.
The larva was released onto a bramble leaf.
Harold
It was on one of the lower leaves and the many, large, strap-shaped leaves made framing and lighting the larva difficult. Up to triple flash was used and, at times, fill flash on either side or both sides was switched off, to avoid green light from obstructing leaves featuring.
EM-1 (Manual Mode 1/250 second ISO 400), extension, Printing Nikkor 150mm, FOV 17mm wide, f11, hand-held. (I had to take a short rest after each shot, due to the weight).
With the reared-up larva I had only time for one shot of each.
There is a cross-eye stereo which could be more effective but the frames were not shot for this purpose.
All images have been cropped. The larva was ca 15mm long.
The larva was released onto a bramble leaf.
Harold
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Light is bit harsh in all....
Cheers!
Brian v.
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True, but a large diffuser would have given green light. Compromise.
Harold
Thanks, Brian.
I find it hard to believe that these are the usable ones from about 100 shots. I should have used the Kiron and f16.
The grey underside tends to look over-processed and I went backwards and forwards with these to get it realistic while showing shadow detail.
Harold
Harold