Alf Beharie wrote:
Very nice...I wonder, were these insects glued in place or dead from the freezer?, because I dought the working distance of the MPE 65mm is more than a couple of inches at best and I know how hard it is to capture shy bugs with a lens barrel looming up close to them...
A fair question. I never shoot dead insects, but I do study their behavior so I can take advantage of it to get close. With bees I get most of my photos in the early spring when the temperatures are low and the sun dips behind the clouds (the bees need the heat to drive their metabolism)...
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...or after it rains (notice the wet hair)...
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...or early in the morning when it\'s still cool...
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...and they are convered in dew...
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...sometimes they\'ll even crawl onto your hand to get warm...
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...or shoot late in the day when they have perched for the night (this one is sleeping and I\'m holding onto the twig)...
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...you can even shoot very timid insects when it\'s windy since they would rather deal with you than the wind...
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...so you see there really is no such thing as a \"bug lens\" and that having a short working distance actually allows me to get photos that I wouldn\'t be able to take with longer glass...
Sep 18, 2008 at 12:22 AM
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