Sunday, July 10, 2011

Bug Love

A while back I picked used Micro-Nikkor 55mm macro lens from the consignment counter at Delray Camera. (My favorite camera store) At $200 it cost a little less than half of the current price at B&H. Now this is an old style, manual focus, manual aperture design but it is tack sharp! Attached to my D300 it yields some really impressive images.

Take a look at this romantic encounter between two giant jewel stink bugs on some milkweed in my back yard. My technique is to shoot several in a continuous sequence to accommodate the slight breeze then pick the ones with the sharpest subjects.


One from the series


Close crop from series.


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