So I am not yet a bug-o-grapher...for C&C

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Izzie, it appears you've been bitten by the bug bug. Keep at it. Get yourself an old aquarium, some dirt/moss, a branch or two and you can start keeping your buggy friends longer and healthier. Plus, if you start googling all your bugs you'll be a bugspert in no time.

[IzzieK]

Thanks Barbara and John (Rostron) I really appreciate your comments and viewing and feedbacks.

What can I do with a macro lens? Hmmm....many things I hope instead of it resting on the shelf for a long time...LOL

John...I will remember May or June to look for them. I'd like to shoot antennaes like David and Geoff does, and others. Thank you for looking and commenting and the useful tips. I appreciate it very much.

[IzzieK]

Izzie, it appears you've been bitten by the bug bug. Keep at it. Get yourself an old aquarium, some dirt/moss, a branch or two and you can start keeping your buggy friends longer and healthier. Plus, if you start googling all your bugs you'll be a bugspert in no time.

Thanks Jack...Not really wanting to be an expert, just another genre I would like to be able to photograph well. So that is where they thrive...in a mossy acquarium...have a lot of branches from fallen ones from high winds...that is a good idea (for a while anyway) while I am interested in photographing them...have a lot of moss at the back yard too in the shade wet area somewhere there...Good idea!

Thanks for the tip and the comments. I appreciate it very much...

[Texas Dave]

Shall we start a rendition of Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit? ..because I believe your bug has passed on!

I'm so looking forward to the day you get your first macro lens!

By the way, I like them!

[IzzieK]

In the photo it was still alive...I got sick of it not cooperating so I tossed it out in the bin around noon yesterday...I was thinking yesterday too in my break, that I should give up on bugs and insects. I am more afraid of touching them than anything really. Add snakes to that even if I don't have to use a macro on it...but we'll see. My macro lens is on order from my sugar daddy for Mother's Day...

Shall we start a rendition of Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit? ..because I believe your bug has passed on!

I'm so looking forward to the day you get your first macro lens!

By the way, I like them!

[James G]

Izzie, I have to admit I'm not afraid to touch insects but that said I very rarely do when I'm trying to photograph them.

Keep in mind that you do not need to get too close if they are 'normal' sized (I mean not tiny). I use a cannon 100mm macro when on a walk in the country and it allows me to capture wild plants, and bugs/insects resting on leaves etc. (It was the kit I used to get the shot of the Orange Tip Butterfly I posted recently.)

Macro work involving extension tubes is a good bit more troublesome when the DOF becomes vey small, but I sometimes use a 13mm? extension tube on my cannon lens and can still use it handheld on insects in the wild.

[IzzieK]

I will try again...with what I have at the moment...until I can get that macro lens. We went to the botanical garden today and I only have two lens with me but I did not change lens but once and then I got lazy, so I will have some images to post this Week 18th of the calendar year...actually, I was dragged to go out...made the best of it for a change from gardening...

That butterfly you did was brilliant. Next time I will plan my outing with just one purpose at a time, if it is for macro, I will not bother with anything else. I did general photography today so I only brought my 70-300mm with me with the 50mm and a macro extension tube.

Thanks again for the tip...and oh, I tried to capture a bee but it was too flitting for me to catch it on the flower. I got overwhelmed...

Izzie, I have to admit I'm not afraid to touch insects but that said I very rarely do when I'm trying to photograph them.

Keep in mind that you do not need to get too close if they are 'normal' sized (I mean not tiny). I use a cannon 100mm macro when on a walk in the country and it allows me to capture wild plants, and bugs/insects resting on leaves etc. (It was the kit I used to get the shot of the Orange Tip Butterfly I posted recently.)

Macro work involving extension tubes is a good bit more troublesome when the DOF becomes vey small, but I sometimes use a 13mm? extension tube on my cannon lens and can still use it handheld on insects in the wild.

[Geoff F]

Bees! Yes they usually flit around faster than I can focus.

You need to catch them on a large flower with a good supply of nectar to have any reliable hope of photographing them.

[IzzieK]

The flower was large but it seems because it is the end of the tulip season, or whatever flower that was, it doesn't have enough nectar to go about getting them for him...I think I got one sharp one out of three but it was a butt shot.