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Weekly Macro/Close-up thread for 9 May 2010

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Thanks Wade. The wasps are a bit sluggish at the moment here because the weather has turned cold. This wasp was feeding from our blue bird feeder bowl, licking up the remains of the sugar. When they're feeding you can get right up close to them. These ones were feeding from some cooked chicken I put out for them:





Insects are easiest to photograph when they're feeding, preening or mating.

I've never been stung by a bee or wasp while photographing them, although I've had a few land on me. Never try to swat them away, that's a sign of aggression and they will probably attack. Just gently brush them away, if you've got the nerve!
cheers,
peter
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Great shots, Fabian, esp #1. and the preening shot. I had one fly into my house and I ended up puting it on my study desk where I took over 100 shots. I even ended up feeding it before I released it outside





Amazing creatures.
cheers,
peter
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I envy your shot #1, very nice (one like that sting my cheek a few months ago, when I wanted to take a picture of it).
 
I like specially #3.
I haven't this ants here :-(

I don't like too much the background: there is some bugs who likes make postures in very ugly backgrounds (although show grround is usually a good thing, sometimes you prefer make it invisible).
 
Apologies for not replying to my forst post last week i completley forgot, so thanks for all the replys, it was much appreciated.

Here are some more shots. All with the MPe-65, MT24ex and 350D. All single frames.



















 
Peterski said:
Took the wasp shot using a flash diffusion tip from SteB who regularly posts here. Found an old 58mm uv filter, knocked out the glass and glued a polystyrene paper cup to the rim. Screwed it onto the end of my MP-E65mm lens and fired the MT-24EX flashes through it. Gives a nice soft light and allows for a bit more sharpening and contrast enhancement in post:

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Beautiful detail - that diffusion certainly works. I'm going to have to play around with something like that myself.
 
Yup, sometimes I do that and it helps a lot! I'm thinking of creating something similar to submarine scope but I will just use a mirror to bend the flash. :D
 
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