9 hours ago
Angry Robot BooksAnother Bug!!
I’m sure the handful / couple of folks who view this blog are just thrilled to see another post with a bug in it. This guy was quite pissed. After discovering him on a fern which we brought in to avoid the potential for a freeze last weekend. I was checking the plant to make sure it was watered and noticed him on a leaf. Joani and I watered the fern and it was expressed that she found them creepy and mildly evil looking so his banishment was a done deal. I snapped a couple of shots while he was still on the greenery. Lighting was poor so flash was needed and I had no diffuser.
So we shook him off the leaves into a little container. Out to the front porch it went and onto the closest flat clean surface at hand. I kinda like the look of the graph paper and might take more like this. He was now very angry and kept turning away from the lense, but i managed to get a shot or two.
Side note. The camera sucks the juice out of the battery like mad when the internal flash is used. going to start using my external from now on.
More shots with the diopter filters
I usually break out the camera and try to find something interesting to shoot when we visit Joani’s family on the weekends. We had some rain recently so I was hoping for some mushrooms. Found some but they are gonna take some work in Photoshop to get anything worth showing out of the pictures I took. I did manage to salvage one of several shots of a lady bug. I am going to have to do some controlled experiments to find the best settings on the camera. Need to get a better depth of field if possible. It may not be possible with the diopters, but I need to learn more about the settings on the camera anyway.
Bumble Bee
Posted a few images in my Deviant Art gallery and the consensus of wife and friends is that this one is worthy of note. I was surprised myself once I opened it on the computer instead of just looking at it on the iPhone with which it was taken. Cropped down to get rid of all the wasted space and low and behold a decent shot of the bee.
Photo I posted over on Tumblr
Like the way this came out, wishing I would have posted it here, but brain was not fully engaged.