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BEEEEEEEEES! While I was visiting my mom (helping her recover from her recent car accident), I was doing some yard work. While I was doing it I noticed a LIVE wasp on my step-dads' driver-side windshield.
Since I used my 50mm with my new extension tubes (has a closer focus distance and so a better macro ratio than my 80-200mm), I had to get REALLY close to this bee XD I'd say that I was about 2-3 inches (5-7.5cm) from the bee with my lens. I was ready to run away if I thought I agitated it, lol. Not a fan of bees in general so I was pretty jumpy while I was doing this, lol.
I recently had purchased some extension tubes for the 2 lenses I own that would be compatible (50mm f/1.8 and 80-200mm f/2.8). I've used them to play around with but I didn't do anything particularly cool with them. The lack of bugs where I live made it pretty limited.
Anyway, this is a live wasp that was unharmed and later flew off after being a very willing subject. I used, if I remember correctly, 24mm extension tube on my 50mm lens (have to manually focus) at f/16 I believe this was though this may have been the f/22 shot. No focus stacking. I hand held my external flash above the bee while shooting from an oblique angle to reduce lens flare and glass reflection.
Since I used my 50mm with my new extension tubes (has a closer focus distance and so a better macro ratio than my 80-200mm), I had to get REALLY close to this bee XD I'd say that I was about 2-3 inches (5-7.5cm) from the bee with my lens. I was ready to run away if I thought I agitated it, lol. Not a fan of bees in general so I was pretty jumpy while I was doing this, lol.
I recently had purchased some extension tubes for the 2 lenses I own that would be compatible (50mm f/1.8 and 80-200mm f/2.8). I've used them to play around with but I didn't do anything particularly cool with them. The lack of bugs where I live made it pretty limited.
Anyway, this is a live wasp that was unharmed and later flew off after being a very willing subject. I used, if I remember correctly, 24mm extension tube on my 50mm lens (have to manually focus) at f/16 I believe this was though this may have been the f/22 shot. No focus stacking. I hand held my external flash above the bee while shooting from an oblique angle to reduce lens flare and glass reflection.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Insect (Other)
Size 1100 x 1100px
File Size 6.17 MB
You got a really good shot here! Not enough appreciation for bugs. I get many people are scared, and they can hurt, but they really are so wonderful for the environment, and such amazing and cool little creatures. this wasp is beautiful :> good work shooting it!
Nah, probably wouldn't be accepted XD It would have to be focus stacked (which would mean it would have probably had to have been a dead subject for me to set up a tripod like that or take that many shots handheld), and all that dust on the glass would have to be gone. It's insane how exacting the standards of places like that can be XD
Focus stacking (something I've only experimented with once) is when you take multiple pictures that are focussed in different zones (going from front to back). The image is then edited in photoshop so that the subject appears to be in focus from front to back even though there was actually no way to achieve that effect with the camera settings used. Naturally, this takes many shots (especially with the narrow DoF that a macro shot has), and the shots have to be very precisely taken so that each zone of focus overlaps and the subject is in the same spot of the shot (very difficult to do in a macro shot, especially with a live and moving subject).
I imagine most shots that have insects in a macro shot with focus from front to back are focussed stacked shots of insects that are dead so they wouldn't move around and the photographer had all the time in the world to shoot XD
I imagine most shots that have insects in a macro shot with focus from front to back are focussed stacked shots of insects that are dead so they wouldn't move around and the photographer had all the time in the world to shoot XD
I got rid of the worst of it, but you have to go pretty speck-by-speck with the content aware fill. If you try to get too agressive and get them all at once, it just samples the specs from other areas to fill it in XD It's actually not a true black background either, so just trying to darken them away made a black that didn't match with the background gradient. I could have spot checked all of them, but I just ran out of patience TBO, lol.
Yea, this is the f/16 shot I think. f/22 wasn't much more DoF though. When you're dealing with these macro shots, the DoF even at tiny apertures is still incredibly shallow. Example: my 50mm focussed at 5" in front of the sensor (probably about right in this case) at f/22 has a DoF of only 0.13".
They do drop the light a bit, but I'm not sure it's several stops. From what I've seen so far it's a pretty small drop. The problem is the camera can't keep the aperture open until the moment of shutter release, so you're stuck with a REALLY dark viewfinder if you want to go with a small aperture.
I just got linked to this, but I thought I'd identify the species for you.
It's a Polistes fuscatus female, the common name is usually the "Northern Paper Wasp" in North America. They usually have nests of a couple of hundred individuals, and paper wasps aren't anywhere near as aggressive as their yellowjacket cousins.
It's a Polistes fuscatus female, the common name is usually the "Northern Paper Wasp" in North America. They usually have nests of a couple of hundred individuals, and paper wasps aren't anywhere near as aggressive as their yellowjacket cousins.
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