Hi y'all
This little guy was chomping through a lantanna leaf faster than my teenage daughter chomps through lettuce in her sandwich
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
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.
Little green eating machine...Immature Grasshopper
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Little green eating machine...Immature Grasshopper
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Think about this...maybe Murphy is an optimist!!!
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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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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).
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).
Mike Broderick
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"I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.....My mandate includes weird bugs."--Calvin
(reposts on this site of my images for critique or instruction are welcome)
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
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