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Short-Horned Grasshoppers from Corsica

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
edited January 16, 2015 in Holy Macro
These were all photographed on our last full day.

The first was one of several shot at the butterfly site in the mountain pass. As I suspected, the light was too harsh with some. Others were not quite focused by the AF. The remaining one shows some of the pebbles which gave the OOF background in some of the butterfly

The other two images were shot at our last hotel at Calanches de Piana. We took a late afternoon walk and found some on, or on raised ground behind, a low roadside stone wall.

The last was on a garden shrub.

All were shot with the EM-1, the first with sunlight, through the ED Digital 70-300AF, using AF. Settings were 263mm, 1/1250 f10, ISO 400.

The last was with the Kiron 105mm macro, probably at f11, 1/200 at ISO 800 and with TTL flash.

Harold



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    StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2015
    Nice set! I like #1 because I can barely see the subject and in this case that is fantastic!:Dthumb.gif
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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2015
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Nice set! I like #1 because I can barely see the subject and in this case that is fantastic!:Dthumb.gif

    Thanks.

    Maybe I should have posted the unsharpened image? :D

    You should try tracking the little perishers. You see them jump, maybe with a flash of blue or red wings while in mid-air, then they have blended in with the ground again.

    Harold
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    Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,900 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2015
    Wonderful captures Harold. These always look like stone sculptures to me
    Brian v.
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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2015
    Wonderful captures Harold. These always look like stone sculptures to me
    Brian v.

    Thanks, Brian.

    Yes. Shame about the last one, not making the best of its cryptic colouring! Easy shot, though.

    Harold
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