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Different species of wasps using the RF 100mm Macro

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JayLT4 Regular Member • Posts: 288
Different species of wasps using the RF 100mm Macro
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Over the past few nights I've been taking some shots of the different species of wasps that I tend to see around my yard.  I do have a couple more then seen here, but the other ones show up much less frequently and I have yet to see any at night.

Finding these at night allows me to get very close and take pictures of them without worrying that they are going to fly off.  In fact of the two of them they barely even budged with the flash going off, the exception was the yellow paper wasp as they seem much more sensitive of the flash popping off and would wake up a bit and slightly move around.

The shots of the black and yellow mud dauber and potter wasp are stacked images with an average of 18 shots each as those  didn't make many movements at all.  The shots of the yellow paper wasp are all single shots because of its reaction to the flash.  Because of this I needed to close down the aperture a bit more to get some more depth to them so they are between f/16 and f/20.

These are all hand-held and because of the flash (Godox MF-12) I wasn't able to use the built-in focus bracketing, instead needed to do that manually as well by focusing through the subject while shooting

Overall the RF 100mm lens performed great as always.  I know there has been some talk about focus-shift, but I don't see it with the way I tend to use the lend I guess.  I'm not saying that it doesn't do it, just that I don't see it.

The Godox MF-12 flash also continues to impress me.  A nice light-weight flash that shoots a lot of light and recycles nice and fast to keep up with continuous shooting.  I enjoy the flexibility that the MF-12 allows.  Also the basic diffusers that come with the flash kit work very well, and I have yet to see the need to modify or add anything

I'm hoping to run into a blue mud dauber sometime this summer, but with how rarely I see them I don't put much hope into it!

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