Little green eating machine...Immature Grasshopper

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Little green eating machine...Immature Grasshopper

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Hi y'all :D

This little guy was chomping through a lantanna leaf faster than my teenage daughter chomps through lettuce in her sandwich :!: :shock: :!:

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This is one of the few times I put the diffuser on the flash. The hopper was tucked in under some other leaves so I had to aim the flash straight ahead. This produced copious amounts of glare on the hopper and the leaf when photographed without a diffuser over the flash head. I added a Sto-fen Omni-bounce diffuser to the flash head to control the glare. Again, even with a diffuser over the flash, it pays to get the flash head as close to your subject as possible.

Enjoy, my friends :!: :D

Canon EOS D30, 90mm f. 2.8 Tamron macro lens, ISO 200, electronic flash -2/3 with Omni-bounce diffuser, 1/200 sec at f. 16.
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Post by Ken Ramos »

Pretty neat image Tom. I have never seen a hopper like this. Most of the ones I see are the big green or gray ones that spit on ya. :)
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Post by MikeBinOKlahoma »

Tom, a very neat close-in shot. I've also used a diffuser on a lot of my shots, and it does help, though I am mostly resigned to some flash glare in many of my shots.

I like the good view of the hopper doing one of the three things hoppers do really well....(the others are jump and make more hoppers).
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Post by Hank »

Grasshoppers are voracious eaters. For the fans of Insectia videos, here is a short 50 seconds clip of a grasshopper devouring leaves on a red cone flower.

http://tinyurl.com/9543p
or
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictu ... lbumInvite

Camcorder used - SONY TRV900 with a 35 mm lens mounted in reverse "a la Plonsky", handheld, natural light. The video, shot in progressive mode (15 frames/s), is not speeded up - this critter was really eating this fast.

Hank

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