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The little wood opposite continues to provide subjects. I captured these hand-held yesterday with a Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and two 2X teleconverters on a Sony A7ii with a Venus Optics KX800 twin flash.
The raw files were processed with DXO PhotoLab, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz DeNoise AI.
The images are taken from this album at Flickr, which contains 1300 pixel high versions of the images and image sequences for some of the subjects,
#1 22-spot ladybird? But from the side we can see it looks like 20-spot or, if you count the spots on the head, 24 spot.
1841 01 2020_12_02 DSC06228_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
1841 04 2020_12_02 DSC06259_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
1841 07 2020_12_02 DSC06276_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4 Are these fungi growing out of/through the leaf?
1841 11 2020_12_02 DSC06304_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5 A slug. As with snails, I like the continuously changing shapes they make with their antennae.
This subject showed up a significant shortcoming of the setup I'm currently using. It is good for small subjects, but the working distance is huge for subjects this size. I had to get so far away for a full body shot of this slug, which was around 50mm long, that the flash was ineffective even with a very high ISO.
1841 17 2020_12_02 DSC06349_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6 From the sequence of this scene it looks like this bug can clamber over spider silk with no problem. Also, there was a spider very close by, just underneath the stem the bug was moving along. It didn't make any move on the bug. This reminds me of a sequence from some years ago when I photographed a shield bug seeing off a crab spider. In that case the two of them actually made contact as far as I recall. I can look those out if anyone is interested.
1841 31 2020_12_02 DSC06391_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedLoAISf55,0 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7 This spider was hanging under a leaf which made it difficult to get a line on it and also difficult to illuminate it.
1841 35 2020_12_02 DSC06406_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8
1841 45 2020_12_02 DSC06469_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcLoLoAISf40,0 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
The raw files were processed with DXO PhotoLab, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz DeNoise AI.
The images are taken from this album at Flickr, which contains 1300 pixel high versions of the images and image sequences for some of the subjects,
#1 22-spot ladybird? But from the side we can see it looks like 20-spot or, if you count the spots on the head, 24 spot.
1841 01 2020_12_02 DSC06228_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
1841 04 2020_12_02 DSC06259_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
1841 07 2020_12_02 DSC06276_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4 Are these fungi growing out of/through the leaf?
1841 11 2020_12_02 DSC06304_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5 A slug. As with snails, I like the continuously changing shapes they make with their antennae.
This subject showed up a significant shortcoming of the setup I'm currently using. It is good for small subjects, but the working distance is huge for subjects this size. I had to get so far away for a full body shot of this slug, which was around 50mm long, that the flash was ineffective even with a very high ISO.
1841 17 2020_12_02 DSC06349_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6 From the sequence of this scene it looks like this bug can clamber over spider silk with no problem. Also, there was a spider very close by, just underneath the stem the bug was moving along. It didn't make any move on the bug. This reminds me of a sequence from some years ago when I photographed a shield bug seeing off a crab spider. In that case the two of them actually made contact as far as I recall. I can look those out if anyone is interested.
1841 31 2020_12_02 DSC06391_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedLoAISf55,0 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7 This spider was hanging under a leaf which made it difficult to get a line on it and also difficult to illuminate it.
1841 35 2020_12_02 DSC06406_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8
1841 45 2020_12_02 DSC06469_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcLoLoAISf40,0 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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