Updates on the new macro lens: I rigged up a very basic reflector tube for the onboard flash and convinced my dead weevil friend to model again. These photos were taken in the dark with just a cheap torch to help me find the focus. I need a brighter flash but given the weevil is maybe ten times the size of a micro moth the results are promising. No crop on the first photo but probably 50% crop on the second.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The eye doesn't lose much detail even at full crop which is great. It's a little bit soft but the flash needs diffusing and it needs to be a bit stronger. The next step is to get a tripod rail and start trying to stack focus. I need to find some really tiny bugs to practice on too.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I was hoping for some late season moths or maybe an unusual migrant but got an early December Moth instead. No records of this moth from my borough on iNaturalist or NBN Atlas though so rare enough for me
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Those Light Brown Apple moths are very hardy for an invasive. I managed five species over two nights this weekend, including two new ones. The December moth above and this lovely Feathered Thorn.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Oh the joys of flash diffusion 😗