Insects . We can pretend they do n’t outnumber us , that they do n’t have disguise or several times our strength , proportionally … untilwe see them up near . Here are the results from this week ’s Shooting Challenge : Bugs .
WINNER: Wears Contacts
I have this picture in Poznań near the river . The humidity was very high so on the damselfly there are a flock of drop . movie is a stack of 20 undivided shot , so the deepness of field is high . television camera : Canon 40D
Lens : Old Tamron 90/2,8 , F - Number : 7,1 , Exposure Time : 1/250 , ISO Speed : 250 , Flash : Canon 430 EX II with home made diffuser
– Adam Tomasewski
Mountain Top
It was a day for prod of the import . In brief I ’m in Korea on my way to visit my cousin in Pyeongteak . In a precipitation to get to the post and then … hemipteran … have always interested me , transfixed by its unequalled colour scheme I brook . We where one in my mind I asked “ may I have this opportunity ? ” I imprecate it wait till after the third guess assay . I looked at my phone hoping … ”it cognize ! . ” rush yet not on time i missed my train . Missed opportunity is my life-time story so peradventure if I take simpler single …
– Ryland Rodriguez
DragonflyDamselfly Business
I took this photo at my acquaintance menage near the pond in his backyard . I laid in the grass for about 10 minutes await for these Blue Dragonflies to vanish into range . It was surprisingly not turn off by the auditory sensation of the shutter and have me take several photos before fly away for more authoritative dragonfly occupation . Canon EOS 60D , Canon EF - S 60 mm f/2.8 USM Macro , Exposure time : 1/125 sec . , F - stop : f/3.5 , ISO : 100 .
– Rob Leifheit
Hey, What Are You Doing?
Shot on a Canon 550D ( T2I ) with a 100 mm Macro lens ISO 800 F7.1 The high ISO being because it was an sunless day and i take the higher shutter velocity for a incisive figure of speech .
This picture really came about by fortune . I was lining up to take a shot of a small mallet type microbe on a bloom in my back garden , when this speculative tent flap landed on a flower stalk next to me and waslooking directly at me as if to say “ hey ! what are you doing ? ” It hung around for about 30 - 40 secs strike a few poses and then left . I then took a picture of the Beetle which came out no where nearly as upright .
– Phillip Jinks
Florida Wheel Bug Nymph
Out the door on my means to work , found this Florida Wheel Bug Nymph on the headlight of my car . I went and grabbed my camera and it posed nicely for me even with my camera a few inches away . Shot with a Canon 30d and a Sigma 17 - 70 lens .
– Andy Graber
Mantis
I ’ve lived in Okinawa , Japan for about 7 years but I ’m original from the UK .
We do n’t have too many interesting bugs in the UK . But they are copious and horrific in Okinawa !
When I decided to examine & insert something for this challenge I went out to a local park to take the air the click former Friday even , it was a frustrating time to get any pics because wind was blowing & the branches moving about too much . So I did n’t get anything worthwhile . I was about to depart & was reviewing what I had lead , when I suddenly spotted this praying mantis rest on a tartar yield uprise at the side of the route . It was a stretch to reach the camera over the fence & I had to take the film upside down , but just as I did he snapped his drumhead around & reckon directly at the lens !
I also spent a few hour on Sunday take more pics , actually some in force one of the Giant Okinawan Mrs. Henry Wood spider , but as it call on out I believe this one is best . Camera : Sony NEX C-3 , 30 mm Macro , ISO 800 , 1/250 , f/8 , more or less cropped & rotated image
– Paul Roddick
The Gymnast
The net agglomeration of crystalline lens parts looks both eldritch and amazing on the camera — might I paint a picture a competition for obscure lens assemblage ? television camera : Sony a77 , stark naked mode , ISO 100 , f/2.8 , 1/500 second exposure .
Lens : LensBaby Edge80 oculus + ComposerPro + 8 mm and 16 mm macro instruction extension adaptor .
I used this competition as an excuse to experiment with the Edge80 and macro adapters . The a77 ’s focus peaking feature film makes the manual nature of this lens much easier . I had the ComposerPro tip somewhat , my thinking was that by skewing the focal plane I could deepen the DOF exactly in the counseling I needed . Focusing is still pretty hit or miss disregarding of the cunning peter built into the camera , so I took advantage of the burst way to occupy my memory add-in with bleary shots , hoping to mine a gem afterwards . Of almost 400 photos only 10 had satisfactory raciness 🙂
The photo was import into Lightroom 4.1 and exported as jpegs from there . I dislodge the line just a little , but otherwise this is what the tv camera beguile .
I ’m no systematist ( and even less of an entomologist ) , but I am pretty trusted this is an odonatoptera . I ca n’t be sure if it is a mosquito hawk or a mayfly .
– Alec Berry
LED?
I went to Italy to visit my parents . When I saw a firefly in the garden , I immediately took my camera and fuck off some overnice shots in the dark . Lumix Gh2 , 50 millimetre canon fd f1.4 1/30sec iso 640
– Davide Bellotta
The Nest
I was in the backyard when I bumped my head on a dislodged pelting gutter . I looked up and overhead were Yellow Jackets bombilate around their new beehive on the underside of my porch .
Not want to miss a honest shot , I fit inside and take hold of my camera . strain to stave off being stunned if they turned on me , I stayed back . However , none of the shots were to my satisfaction , so I shore up myself and my tripod on top of two chairs and took the image from column inch away . In the end , I had my snap , I did n’t cast my television camera , I was able to balance myself , and most significantly , I was not stunned . canyon 40D w/100 mm Macro , tripod , and two chairs , 1/200 Secs , f/4.4 , ISO400
– Daniel Zhuang
Spider Rise
Shot with a Panasonic GH1 and a late 70s Nikon 55 mm AI 1.2 in aperture priority modality @ 1.2 . Just after it rain down , I went out to bewitch some wet spiderwebs and spiders , but this shot ended up being my fav . Of course , they ’ll be a lot of submissions of bugs close - up , but I was looking for something dissimilar , something that highlight the bug , but also the bug ’s environs . I really liked how the spider ’s dark silhouette ended up looking like it was a huge colossus walk across the dry land , with a great Melancholia orange sun setting in the background . In reality , it was just an itsy bitsy one , not an apocalyptic wanderer , and the sunshine was just a knee high walkway lamp , the earth the circular grim top of the lamp . Levels were somewhat adjusted in photoshop to play out a more orangish glow to the “ sun ” .
– James Rogers
Burning Rubber
I do n’t come equipped with a camera on morning walk with my bounder through the complex , but I always have my cell headphone on me . This was consume with my iPhone . No redaction beside some cropping . The only time I see the snails is on my pass with Nate . Unfortunately for him , I make him stop at every snail so I can take a picture just like he makes me stop at every tree . I take a photo of each one because I jazz the item in the shell and their coloring . This break of day I saw four and he just befall to be the most photogenic of them all .
– Lauren Palmer
Wedding Shoot
Just a few weeks ago , my bride-to-be and I went locating scouting for a office to take some pictures for our wedding website . We picked a random park , and walked down a trail to find a pond with a little dock . It was the perfect advantage point for capturing all the wildlife there ( of which there was plenty , including frogs , turtles , Pisces , and lots of BUGS ! ) . Of naturally we were n’t there to take photograph of wildlife at the time , but I thought of this locating straightaway when this challenge was place . We lead back at fall on Saturday , and took tons of pictures of firedrake flies . I think it turned out gravid considering our lack of a macro lens ( we were just soar in from jolly faithful space ) . Equipment : Canon EOS Rebel T3i with a 55 - 250 mm kit lens .
– Brian Potocki
Hey Ladies
Shooting louse is one of my biggest hobbies . I localize out to get a photograph of a dragonfly but run across a grasshopper . It is n’t everyday that you see a grasshopper scratching his head with this variety of point ! Although the dragonfly pic I bugger off was a better photograph technically , this picture is the one I choose to submit because of subject matter . Canon 5D Mark iii , Canon EF100 mm F/2.8L Macro IS USM , Canon 580 ex ii with Gary Fong Diffuser , f/16 , ISO 400 , Shutter Speed 1/100 sec . No tripod ! ( Getting insect in the scrub , a tripod is too much trouble ! That ’s why the macro lens of the eye with IS is so worthful because usually one has wanted petty time to get a right shot )
– Rocco Saya
Biei Bee
I was in Hokkaido , Japan this weekend on vacation and while furrow the rolling farm of Biei we stumbled upon a monolithic sunflower spell – something entirely surreal . I riff between all-inclusive angle and macro to get as much of the scene and story as potential and find myself ignoring the enceinte ordered series of the shot to chase this Japanese bumblebee hard at work . Hokkaido ’s Biei is in the peak of lavender and helianthus season , so it is such a treat for the eye . photographic camera : Nikon D800E , Lens : Nikon Micro - Nikkon 105 mm VR F/2.8 , f/8 , ISO 100 , 1/500
– Jason Arney
The macro challenge never disappoint , which is amazing , as many of these shots required more than a little patience … and unimaginable cajones . Balancing on chair with tripods over buzzing yellow jacket crown nest ? You ’re expert Man than me . The full gallery are below — and they ’re undoubtedly worth your clip . The wallpaper are over onflickr .
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