Any bug photos during July 2015

[Ziggy]

Some from this month so far -



















Sorry, not trying to spam, just starting late

All from the Oly PEN E-PM2, first two are a Vivitar 90mm f2.5 with the vivitar 2x macro focusing teleconverter, the others are with the olympus 60mm f2.8 macro.

Hi and welcome.

Very nice variety of shots. First two stand out to me.

Jim

[gregj1763]

My eye sight must be getting bad, what happened to my Jumping spider, I see some guy stringing a tennis racquet. Not even one of my photo's?

[Cantab]

My eye sight must be getting bad, what happened to my Jumping spider, I see some guy stringing a tennis racquet. Not even one of my photo's?

Greg, I know from reading other threads that a few folk have had difficulties with TinyPics. Is that what you use? If it's any consolation, my computer still shows your jumping spider.

[IzzieK]

My eye sight must be getting bad, what happened to my Jumping spider, I see some guy stringing a tennis racquet. Not even one of my photo's?

I saw your jumping spider too, Greg...

[gregj1763]

Really strange, I use Tiny pics and I just edited my post and put the spider image back but it still came up as the Wilson racquet centre but if you guys still see my spider that's ok I guess.
Must be a Tiny pic glitch

[IzzieK]

This is not as good as Ziggy or any of you here in the bug-o-graphy forum, but I tried my best, Grahame...Geoff and David and Mark...

It is not a bug according to Wikipedia but a butterfly is an insect but I have seen some submitted some butterfly and David, my bugman friend, this is real serious image I found in my garage door going to the backyard... and it is not a BUTT--er-fly...I do not know what it is...if it even have an ID...



or a moth...this is a good start for me on macro bug-o-graphy...I know...my door needs cleaning up...

[JBW]

the only reply that comes to mind is 'OH WOW'.

[Ziggy]

This is not as good as Ziggy or any of you here in the bug-o-graphy forum, but I tried my best, Grahame...Geoff and David and Mark...

It is not a bug according to Wikipedia but a butterfly is an insect but I have seen some submitted some butterfly and David, my bugman friend, this is real serious image I found in my garage door going to the backyard... and it is not a BUTT--er-fly...I do not know what it is...if it even have an ID...



or a moth...this is a good start for me on macro bug-o-graphy...I know...my door needs cleaning up...

That is a Skipper (Butterfly) Izzie. Many different types and sizes.
Most times you see them skipping from one bloom to another.

[gregj1763]

Very nice Izzie, great sharp detail on the eye

[JBW]

Certainly not unusual but perhaps interesting? The advice was given here that F/14 was a good goto for macro. This was shot at F/14 and it turned out rather nice for DOF

[deetheturk]

Izzie, it might not be a bug, BUTT, , it is a very good macro shot sharp where it needs to be, very well captured

[deetheturk]

Nice capture B, wait till you get that Macro lens!

[gregj1763]

Great photo Brian he/she looks like the Phantom with the masked eyes

[JBW]

Nice capture B, wait till you get that Macro lens!

That will be quite a while. First i get the best I can out of the lens that came with the camera.

[JBW]

Great photo Brian he/she looks like the Phantom with the masked eyes

Indeed. and i may just have an active imagination but I think the eyes are in the 'mask'.

[gregj1763]

Indeed. and i may just have an active imagination but I think the eyes are in the 'mask'.

Looking closer, I think you may be right there Brian

[JBW]

Looking closer, I think you may be right there Brian

I must admit that i have thoughts of a dedicated macro lens but there is also the satisfaction of getting the most out of what you have. And I don't believe i have even scratched the surface yet of this cameras capabilities.

[piggsy]

My eye sight must be getting bad, what happened to my Jumping spider, I see some guy stringing a tennis racquet. Not even one of my photo's?

Assuming it's not just from a typo - tinypic recycle their URLs, so the URL they gave you for one image will over time be recycled for someone else's. This can occasionally go really wrong, where an image you've sent that was fine for one context is replaced after a while with uh, not safe for work / not safe for life content.

Also I seem to remember they use some pretty heavy handed recompression even on already compressed images, if you need another incentive not to use it.

[gregj1763]

Assuming it's not just from a typo - tinypic recycle their URLs, so the URL they gave you for one image will over time be recycled for someone else's. This can occasionally go really wrong, where an image you've sent that was fine for one context is replaced after a while with uh, not safe for work / not safe for life content.

Also I seem to remember they use some pretty heavy handed recompression even on already compressed images, if you need another incentive not to use it.

All is good now, I can see my spider again

[piggsy]

All is good now, I can see my spider again

In any case I would seriously reconsider using it, over a long enough time frame it has been known to replace safe content with transsexual pornography as reported here. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just, the surprise element of it is perhaps a dealbreaker.