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Clayton Lofgren

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I seldom do any macro, but this guy is hanging out on my balcony.


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Clayton Lofgren Wine Tasterf9 iso 200 1/60 100mm​


Sorry- no idea on species!
 
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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Clayton Lofgren said:
I seldom do any macro, but this guy is hanging out on my balcony.


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Clayton Lofgren Wine Tasterf9 iso 200 1/60 100mm​
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Clayton,

This is one hairy critter and almost makes me wonder if it's not a moth? However, the clubs on the ends of its antennae are more typical of butterflies.

What a long feeding tube!

Asher
 
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Rachel Foster

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I've had a hard time narrowing down which shots to post. I have dozens! I finally settled on two.

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ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/400.


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ISO 400. f/5.7, 1/200.​
 
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Clayton Lofgren

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Fighting wind, but I have come up with a couple more. I am told that these are Skipper butterflies, and the flowers are Vinca, or Madagascar periwinkle. The blossoms are attached to a hollow stem about an inch and a half long, and it seems like these butterflies are custom built for them.
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Sometimes the well is deep.
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Clayton Lofgren

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Thank you, Rachel. If I ever show anything remotely artistic it will be strictly by accident, but I try do well with the documentary side. These guys are pretty cooperative, and about five steps from my computer.
These were at f11. Auto iso was fluctuating between 400 and 800, and shutter speeds from 1/60 to 1/160. I was using the Minolta 100 2.8 macro on the A700.
 
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Clayton Lofgren

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G9

Just one more, and I will look for something different. This was with the G9. It has always seemed to me that smaller sensors should have an advantage for macro work. If we could get an electronic viewfinder that was remote and could be worn as an eye patch, it could make things easy.
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