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And bugs. ^^


Southern Poland, 8 May 2016. It counts as late spring, doesn’t it?
Everything taken within 3 km from my home.


This is… a bug. Some species of checkered beetle, perhaps? Apparently ones with these colors reversed are more popular around…



And this is a comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album), or rusałka ceik in Polish. Judging on the miserable state of the wings, I’d say it’s a vet of the last winter. I think it’s too early for the new generation anyway.



This is a very proud ant who has a whole flower of her own! ^^ Full size recommended.



This is a little leafy twig waving you hello as you’re walking by.



And this is… something related to apple trees? Well, it’s spring wild blossom at any case. They’re taking turns in sunbathing. “Move over, you had your share by morning.”



Thank you for attention and proceed with your evening. :)

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Date: 2016-05-25 17:28 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com
I use just a high level point-and-shoot, so I can't swap lenses. Converter is a sort of additional lens you can screw on like filters. Shouldn't be mistaken with screwed-on macro lenses, which are just a single glass. Converter has two glasses combined, which makes it more versatile (you can choose how big magnification you want, without losing the focus) and much better for hunting critters, because it works from a bigger distance. Conveniently, converters are usually even better for point-and-shoots than DSLRs, because the latter have large sensors, which gives shorter focus range (because of reasons and physics) and when you combine it with the large magnification (so, shortening the focus range even more), it's really hard to get good results. Which is actually already hard even with point-and-shoot - the depth of field is milimeters, not even centimeters. High aperture can add a milimeter or two, but I have no more than 8f and anyway not every bug is kind enough to sit in full sun (which not necessarily is good, too, because of chromatic aberrations on reflective parts - wings, trichomes; a little clouded sky gives the nicest results, like here (http://aletheiafelinea.deviantart.com/art/On-the-Edge-381930705)), and high ISO is definitely not what you want for tiny details. And as for making up for dark with a low shutter speed, it's the higher the better with bugs, because most of little bastards fidgets like crazy. Especially ants.

I use a Raynox 250 and can recommend it. I think there's a video on YT, where a guy screws together 150 + 250 onto a DSLR and from about half a meter of distance counts a fly's ommatidias. That is, dunno if he counted them, but he could. :) Raynox sells also 505, but that's a little crazy for a regular camera. Granted, you'll probably take protozoa with this, but good luck with taking them sharp focused from hand, and with anything bigger it's not much fun if only what you can fit into the focus of a small caterpillar is one leg...

Date: 2016-05-26 18:59 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ikel89.livejournal.com
Oho, you really are full of photowisdom!:) Thanks for telling me all this! I'm not sure I need this atm - my range is usually flowers and faces and occasional facades (which, tbh, is something like a face and flowers but in building equivalent;), so I don't need that level of marco precision. But i was curious all the same, so, thank you :)

Date: 2016-05-26 19:57 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com
It's a "didn't know I want this!" sort of thing ;D but yeah, not really useful for portraits and architecture. *g* Fine for flowers, though, as long as it's not supposed to be a 'flower X in the scenery Y' photo. You're welcome and thank you for your interest! :)
Edited Date: 2016-05-26 19:58 (UTC)

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