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Goompa
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Lizard and Friend

shaggy1969
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Another monkey face. Taken with my kit lens E 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS @ ƒ/6.3, 162.0 mm, 1/250, ISO 400

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Goompa Advanced Member

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Rob , can you help this chap out please ?

Nah.... I don't like eating butterflies, - they leave a bad taste in my moth. facepalm.gif

Yeah, no probs - I have sent him a PM.

I used to think your humour was somewhat satirical , now I know it was just non-existent sorry.gif

Well it's goodnight from him and its ....

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luckynero Explorer Member

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Rob , can you help this chap out please ?

Nah.... I don't like eating butterflies, - they leave a bad taste in my moth. facepalm.gif

Yeah, no probs - I have sent him a PM.

I used to think your humour was somewhat satirical , now I know it was just non-existent sorry.gif

Well it's goodnight from him and its ....

Thanks guys:)

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fimgirl Advanced Member

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Misguided Fruit Fly

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Quite amazing. I would like to know the details of this capture. You've managed to freeze the subject but retained the motion in the wings. It's almost like a still frame from a movie. I can't believe you just walked out into the garden and took a shot (?)

Care to share?

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Dancealot Platinum Member

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Misguided Fruit Fly

Quite amazing. I would like to know the details of this capture. You've managed to freeze the subject but retained the motion in the wings. It's almost like a still frame from a movie. I can't believe you just walked out into the garden and took a shot (?)

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[edit]Excuse me for intervening. If I just pulled out my cam and took a few shots on automatic while following this noisy bug I would get ONLY noise and no shot. Preparation of the camera, positioning relative to the lightsource and a lot of shots is what it took.

Consequently: I'd like to freely speculate along your discussion:

If my bug's wings move at the same relative frequency a Goompa's did, he must have taken the shot at about 1/1250. I took it at 1/2000.

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rhythmworx Gold Member

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A bees wings move at around 11,000 times per second.

In Physics terms it should be impossible for them to fly and manoeuvre due to their aerodynamic properties, size, weight and wing size etc...

sunshine51 Platinum Member

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DALs "bug" is a Bumble Bee....hence the noise they make, especially when close by

which is more of a low pitched drone...and quite loud. Great captures for both Goomp's

& DAL's bees.

Goompa Advanced Member

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Misguided Fruit Fly

Quite amazing. I would like to know the details of this capture. You've managed to freeze the subject but retained the motion in the wings. It's almost like a still frame from a movie. I can't believe you just walked out into the garden and took a shot (?)

Care to share?

Thanks , well to be perfectly honest I did just go out and take a shot in the garden although several shots be that . This image took 2 takes , maybe 2 seconds apart to gain some focus , one discarded.

I took 8 photos in total chasing this little bee around the basil trying to get mid-air and settled shots , at various focal lengths , I ditched 3 images.

Camera was set to auto , I have no end of problems with this camera trying to control the SS and aperture , if I manually set any SS the camera will shutter lag and the image will take about 3 seconds to resonate in the viewfinder , I have not tried jpeg to see if there is a problem with that setting though. This happens even at 1/1000 @ 2.8 as well , no idea why. Focus tracking disabled .

Using a macro lens takes a fair bit of patience as I have had to discover , this is a 60mm ED 2.8 M Zuiko and it hunts wildly as well , a bit like trying to wind in a kite on a windy day getting manual focus as well even after an attempt at auto focus , but the end results are ok .

Exif data for this image is f 5.6 at 1/500 at 60mm on M4/3 , so 120 mm eq. iso 200 , I did crop out the distractions as best as possible and I will attach the unedited raw for comparison here .

apologies for being long winded

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fimgirl Advanced Member

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^^ @ Goompa - very interesting. Not an area of photography I've used but I was curious as to what technique you guys employ.

@ Dancealot - that shot of yours is also amazing.

Respect to both of you for your work in this field.

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Goompa Advanced Member

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A nice portrait of a " Bug " , we have feelings to .... come on give us a kiss giggle.gif

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Honestly these prescription medications are great ! cheesy.gif

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Rob8891 Gold Member

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I love these photos, Goomps, you really have cracked this genre, clap2.gif but sometimes I think you need to change the balance a bit....

....No, not the colour balance, just your meds' dosages .... whistling.gif

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sunshine51 Platinum Member

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Goomps...I reckon you have found your "niche" in life...let it flow Bro!

Billions of subjects out there...all awaiting to be imortalised.

That's kinda neat IMO.

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Mousehound Silver Member

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Iphone photo, lit by handheld second iphone LED.

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Actually a moth. At first I thought this one was one of the brightly coloured Arctiidae. In fact it is a Noctuidae, Asota subfascia. They are all part of a group of families called Noctuoid. A great shot by the way, with a phone. I very much like how you used a second phone to get the lighting boost you needed.

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Mousehound Silver Member

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leopard Lacewing Cethosia cyane euanthes (male)

Ye Gods! You must have amazing eyesight!! whistling.gif

Sadly my eyesight is starting to fail. I did it all by feel! lol

In fact the female is much paler than the male.

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Robby nz Diamond Member

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They say something about sometimes not always being able to tell a book by its cover.

Some butterflies are a bit like that for the look different with their wings open and closed.

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Intermediate Bush Brown, wings closed.

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The same one with its wings open.

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Rob8891 Gold Member

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I really have to get out more !

You mean this menagerie is wandering around your house??? w00t.gif

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