A few garden bugs

Just a few from today, following lennyblokes advice, i allowed myself to be distracted from digging and took some shots instead.

Apologies for concentrating on the shield bug, it was the first time i have seen one while i had a camera, had to make the most of it.

K3ii + 105mm macro + 2 tubes + ringflash and my patented ringflash diffuser :rofl:


IMGP2076edcrpsm by dr.shutter, on Flickr


IMGP2083edcrpsm by dr.shutter, on Flickr


IMGP2095edcrpsm by dr.shutter, on Flickr


IMGP2097edcrpsm by dr.shutter, on Flickr


IMGP2098edcrpsm by dr.shutter, on Flickr


IMGP2103edcrpsm by dr.shutter, on Flickr

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High quality set Derek... particularly like no. 2, but they're all pretty excellent... great stuff...

Best

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Bill

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Great shots, looks like the Martians have landed!

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John K

Really like the opening and last images

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Cheers guys, it was a very enjoyable hour spent looking for bugs.

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Wow, superb, were these hand held and have you cropped them ?

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Hi Chris, yes hand held and cropped. I will post an uncropped one later.
Around 8-10 inches away.
The tubes limt your max focus distance.

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Thanks Derek,

I'm surprised you were as far away as that, was expecting you to have been 3 to 4 inches

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Chris

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K5iis - Sigma 17 - 70 F2.8, Sigma 70 - 300 F3.5/F5.6, Sigma 18 - 200 F3.6 / F4.5.

Here is an uncropped one of the fly, its hard for me to say how close i was as i cant see the front element because of the homemade diffuser

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Thanks for the equipment tips..Ill give this a go..You have excellent results...

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Great shots, and nice and sharp despite being hand held!

Thanks everyone, i was delighted to get a chance to take shots of one, as we dont get them much over here.
And now the last one is the potw.


Dead chuffed now

And a shot of my diffuser.

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The last one of the first set is the stand-out Derek, for me it's the angle used that makes it so good. The Shield bugs are hard to photograph because they are quite large and DOF is an issue, but that doesn't matter given the way you have taken it.

Congratulations on POTW, it's well deserved and I'm glad to see macro being recognised as it's often overlooked.

Regards
David

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potw well deserved Derek

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