Ye very ol' Vespula

Coloured stangely by evening' electric light, he wonders what is happening. Shall he sting again? Will he notice he's already met his creator?

comments (9)

Frankhuizen Photography

Lion

Did you train this wasp to sit still for 32 seconds? (Or is it not so much alive anymore? It looks a bit dead).
Still nice close up of this head study. Posted 13 years ago
1. Ludo Sak
  
  Lion
  
  Sh**, you spoil the fun! It's a HDR composed of 5 pictures. I found this one, quite large and indeed quite dead, on our window sill. The picture was shot in the evening with no natural light, the 5 pics took some 5 minutes in total:) Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago
2. 1. Joost Thissen
    
    Lion
    
    I have tried to do macro before without proper light and long exposure time instead but the result was quite bad. With this one you did manage to get a good quality. Well done!
    Did you use a macro ring to get this magnification? Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago
  2. 1. Ludo Sak
      
      Lion
      
      Thanks Joost, I indeed prefer evening sunlight, but alas it is my birthday today and I got my fourth macro ring (see tags). Yeah!
      Mind you: I shoot with the lens opening as small as my lens allows and with really long exposure times for a bit wider DOF. This picture with a quarter of a milimeter sharp doesn't do the trick for me. Thanks for your comment! Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago
    2. 1. Ferdy Christant
        
        Lion
        
        Happy birthday Ludo! Here's to you, a homepage promotion. Posted 13 years ago
      2. Joost Thissen
        
        Lion
        
        Happy Birthday!
        Nice rings! I am wondering which magnification ratio you get. (If you don't know just take a picture of a 'meetlat' and look how much mm go in a picture. 25mm wide is 1:1.)
        
        I have read that when the aperture gets smaller then F11 the sharpness starts to decrease. I haven't tried this myself but it might be something to take into account that with aperture smaller is not always better. Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago

Ludo Sak

Lion

Grin, how that's a gift gladly accepted! Ps. I hope you still like the picture though:) Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago

Ludo Sak

Lion

@Joost: The best for my 50mm and 15-85 seems to be f8. In many tests 8 seems to be the magic number in sharpness, I wanted to capture a lot of depth without doing focus stacking (which I haven't done yet, ever). Thanks for the hint though, I did not find the picture too sharp indeed.
I shot a ruler(great minds think alike:)) earlier this evening to try out my new ring and it showed 13 mm max on a picture, with all four rings attached to my 50mm.
My 60D has a CCD width of 22.3mm.
That calculates (at least I think so) to a magnification of 22.3/13=1.71 Posted 13 years ago

WildFlower

Lion

This is most likely a Vespa crabro.
http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id129367/
http://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/bmc_05/87v_crabro.html Posted 9 years ago

The European hornet

The European hornet is the largest eusocial wasp native to Europe. It is also the only true hornet found in North America, having been introduced to the United States and Canada from Europe as early as 1840. Vespines, such as "V. crabro", are known for making intricate paper-like nests out of surrounding plant materials and other fibers.

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Similar species: Wasps, Bees, Sawflies And Ants

Species identified by WildFlower