Eggs Again
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Eggs Again
This is another cluster of eggs that are the same as what I took earlier. This cluster is on my tree and in a diffcult area to focus. I had to bend backwards to get this (not an easy feat at my age ). The cluster was on the underside of a tree branch.
Canon 20D with the Canon 100mm Macro, handheld. I use an aperture of 13 and my shutter speed was at 1/25. This is approximately 85% of the original image. Flash was set to fire without compensation.
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Sue,
Yep, wheel bug eggs looks right. Google image search on "wheel bug" eggs produces several pictures that look like what you have. Not as well photographed, of course , but lots of info available. There is a particularly good shot of eggs and hatchlings at http://bugguide.net/node/view/3507, and an amusing caption at http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/wheel_bug_04.htm .
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Yep, wheel bug eggs looks right. Google image search on "wheel bug" eggs produces several pictures that look like what you have. Not as well photographed, of course , but lots of info available. There is a particularly good shot of eggs and hatchlings at http://bugguide.net/node/view/3507, and an amusing caption at http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/wheel_bug_04.htm .
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Looks like a colony of ants with red hot butts Rik. I know little about photography but it seems as though the image is a bit hazy but having to position ones self in an awkward position doesn't help matters much I know.
However you managed to get a good shot of the eggs Sue, nice work. I hope that you will get the chance to photograph the hatch.
However you managed to get a good shot of the eggs Sue, nice work. I hope that you will get the chance to photograph the hatch.
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I think we're seeing a little bit of motion blur, not out-of-focus. At this resolution, it's hard to tell for sure, but there's a distinctive "feel" to the photo that I have come to associate with images that are clearly motion blurred when I blow them up.
At 1:1 and 1/25 second handheld, I would be shocked if the image were not motion blurred!
For handheld in low light, I usually sacrifice the background to black and rely entirely on the flash, which then gives effectively 1/1000 second or faster.
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At 1:1 and 1/25 second handheld, I would be shocked if the image were not motion blurred!
For handheld in low light, I usually sacrifice the background to black and rely entirely on the flash, which then gives effectively 1/1000 second or faster.
--Rik
Yeah that is much better Sue but you have dust on your lens or something. I can see it on the rightside in the darkened background. But the images of the eggs is much sharper and cleaner.
...and then there is that peristome thing.
...and then there is that peristome thing.
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