+1, and thanks for answering what I was going to ask.
>
> On July 9, 2017 at 3:57 PM Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/9/2017 4:09 AM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
>
> > >
> > Awesome photos, Moose.
> >
> > >
> Thanks!
>
> "Photos", plural is interesting. The image presented is a focus stack
> (bracket in Olyspeak) of 15 'slices' of focal
> planes. So it is, in a way, "photos" OTOH, both images in the gallery are
> of the same composite focus stack, one framing
> the whole dragonfly, and one a 100% pixel sample, to show the detail.
>
> > >
> > How do you get so close to insects without them ‘bugging out’ and
> > flying off?
> >
> > >
> Shot at 400 mm, so I wasn't all that close. I'm about 6 ft. away, front
> of the lens about 5.5'.
>
> Here are a couple of smaller insects shot in the same place, about the
> same time.
> A fly, taken at about the close focus limit of the PLeica 100-400 mm
> lens. EXIF says 1.4 m, which is a little of a
> guesstimate.
> The full frame. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22174>
> A crop. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22172>
>
> A stylish little wasp, with blue accents, not quite as close.
> The full frame. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22170>
> A crop. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22168>
>
> There are more examples in the Flies Gallery.
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20400>
> And the Bees & Wasps Gallery.
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20429>
>
> Back to the dragonfly; as is my common practice, I took another stack
> from a little farther away and a less interesting
> angle, in case moving around and going closer scares the subject off.
>
> > >
> > Dragonflies are not really scared of people and are fairly easy to
> > approach,
> >
> > >
> Dragonflies tend to fly off, whether scared or for an aerial snack, then
> return to the same perch, often many times. So
> set-up on the place just vacated will often be rewarded shortly.
>
> Doesn't always work . . . A couple of weeks ago, I spotted a dramatic
> dragonfly with black and yellow striped body, out
> in the garden. I ran to grab the camera and then outside, but it had
> flown off and didn't return to that perch, or the
> yard, at all. Turns out it must have been lost, as this isn't it's normal
> habitat at all. It's usually seen cruising up
> and down stream beds.
>
> > >
> > but I’ve seen closeups like that of skittish insects like
> > houseflies too.
> >
> > >
> Jim is the 'bug whisperer', getting close enough for shots of many small
> insects with Leica-R 90 mm or even a short
> macro lens. I rely on loooong FLs, and, for the little ones, often
> achromatic C-U lenses on the front, although not for
> any of these.
>
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