Adult Grasshoper

[yeatzee]

It was in the grass, and whenever I tried moving it to a better spot for photographic reasons it would fly so I thought I would just try to get a couple pictures as bad as the foreground/background was. This is one of my first 20 shots using my new flash + extension tubes + macro lens combo so bare with me I've got a lot to learn with this setup

 

[Katnapper]

Wow... kind of scary looking, hehe. How come he's got water droplets on him in one pic, and not in the other. (or maybe it's my eyes again... if so, sorry!) :huh:

 

[Rick]

Awesome camera.

 

[PhilinYuma]

Nice job Yeatzee! It's interesting how in the top pic, one drop of water acts as a magnifying lens.

 

[yeatzee]

Wow... kind of scary looking, hehe. How come he's got water droplets on him in one pic, and not in the other. (or maybe it's my eyes again... if so, sorry!) :huh:

Its because they evaporated in the heat in the second pic

Awesome camera.

thanks Rick

Nice job Yeatzee! It's interesting how in the top pic, one drop of water acts as a magnifying lens.

Im glad someone caught that! I didnt notice that until I pixel peeped (a bad habit of mine)

Edit: Phil there is one more "easter egg"

 

[revmdn]

Sweet.

 

[yeatzee]

thanks

 

[Peter Clausen]

A whole new world emerges! Take lots more!

 

[yeatzee]

A whole new world emerges! Take lots more!

Oh I will

 

[kamakiri]

...my new flash + extension tubes + macro lens combo...

Congrats on the new equipment! I like the shot with the water droplets.

 

[hibiscusmile]

when I first clicked on the pic, you could see all the segments in the eye, very neat!

 

[spicey]

cool pics! I'm jealous of your camera and equipment too!

 

[Stone]

Outstanding pics! Very well done Keep em coming!

 

[Katnapper]

So.... tell us what the other "Easter egg" is.... I can't find it!

 

[yeatzee]

Your going to have to click on the pictures and zoom in a bit but the water droplet on the antennae is refracted (I think that is how you would explain it) meaning that it shows what the grass in the background looks like because it is in focus. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it :lol:

Edit: so its as if I took a picture of the grass and made it super small and put it inside the water droplet. The water droplet gives you an in focus "fisheye" view of the grass behind the grasshoper.

 

[ABbuggin]

Can't believe I missed this post. Awesome pics. I love the water droplet one. B)

 

[tonyi]

Awesome pictures! What kind of equipment did you use?

 

[PhilinYuma]

Your going to have to click on the pictures and zoom in a bit but the water droplet on the antennae is refracted (I think that is how you would explain it) meaning that it shows what the grass in the background looks like because it is in focus. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it :lol: Edit: so its as if I took a picture of the grass and made it super small and put it inside the water droplet. The water droplet gives you an in focus "fisheye" view of the grass behind the grasshoper.

Oh boy, I'm about 4/5 asleep at this time of night and yr pic looks even better when I can't think. The three water droplets on the right of the pic are biconvex lenses. Parallel rays of light travelling from the grass to the droplet are made to converge to a point of focus. The point of focus of the smallest droplet was right at your camera sensor. The other two had a shorter focal length and so the images are out of focus. Or so I half think, I shall probably find that I was wrong in the morning

That nice large droplet at the bottom, where the line separating the frons from the clypeus is, appears to be acting like a convex mirror and reflecting the grasshopper's right labial palp and the area just above it. Because of the limited depth of field in a pic like this, the palp itself is slightly out of focus but the reflected image is in focus and enlarged. Very cool. I'll have to look again when I wake up.

 

[yeatzee]

Can't believe I missed this post. Awesome pics. I love the water droplet one. B)

Thanks ABbuggin

Awesome pictures! What kind of equipment did you use?

Pentax K200d + Sigma 105mm macro + 30 yr. Old extension tubes + Pentax AF360 speed light