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• #1127
Take a look at focus stacking. There is such a short focal length on macro lenses that you sometimes need to take multiple images and adjust the focus between shots and then combine them in software.
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• #1128
I've had a go at this before and got decent results, but seems not a great option for anything that moves
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• #1129
Agreed, they don't like posing!!!
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• #1130
Not caught on camera, but seeing MAHOOSIVE hornets/Yellowjackets for the first time ever this year. Literally three times the size of a wasp.
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• #1131
Fantastic wren picture!
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• #1132
I saw similar on a ride last weekend.
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• #1133
This is Joe. My 9 year old wanted me to kill it, as he was in the bathroom whilst she was having a bath. Instead I took a picture, she liked his colour and named him. I count that as a win.
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• #1134
It certainly is for Joe (or possibly Josephine), insert joke of your choice referring to mothballs.
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• #1135
Disturbed this bumblebee nest digging in the garden. Cool to see but sorry bees!
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• #1136
Found this great Longhorn Beetle today (Agapanthia villosoviridescens). Apparently it's not rare but I've never seen it before - or anything like it.
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• #1137
Magnificent!
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• #1138
I had a helping hand in the garden from these two - keeping the pests at bay:
Edit: The first image is taken on a Peony stalk, I have always wondered why the buds are covered in ants and this article explains why:
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• #1139
Anyone noticed a higher number of spiders around this year? Spent the day gardening and constantly seeing them scuttling away. Then spotted a tube web outside my front door, so wandered round with a torch and found eight of the things on my house. They're fascinating, but not sure how I feel about this!
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• #1140
A few picturesque bugs today
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• #1141
Just hanging out in mini_com's mud kitchen
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• #1142
Stopped to take a photo of epithelial growth on a youngish Oak and this guy ran into view:
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• #1143
Took a couple of pics of the tube-web spiders. First one is right above my front door. Trying to gently persuade it to kindly go somewhere else.
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• #1144
A female banded demoiselle, I think
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• #1145
^that is lovely
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• #1146
False widow (I'm fairly sure after googling) in the manky velux in my kitchen.
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• #1147
Life on the edge ...
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• #1148
Saw this nice Wasp Beetle, Clytus arietis, today
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• #1149
and a young Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)
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• #1150
Cantharis rustica, doing a bit of sunbathing.
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True, but it's frustrating with macro stuff because it often looks great on camera and then turns out the focus is totally off when you get it onto a computer.
I think one of the problems is my hands just aren't steady enough, even when shooting with flash. Most of the best results I've got resting camera on a beanbag.
(plus with dead/barely moving creatures).
Get great pictures with that lens when it's with slightly bigger stuff - e.g. this baby wren my neighbour rescued.
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