For those of you not familiar with this species, they are capable of quite a variation in colour and patterning. While uniform green or maroon individuals are most common, the earlier instars often display a lovely banding of these colours on the legs. Now I'm wondering if pigmentation is directly related to nymphal stage...
I spotted one of these a couple of days ago in the early morning sun.
http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/katy-flower.JPG
While Rob's been trying out his flash I've been convinced to use mine less often. The flowers are a Western Australian Hardenbergia that my parents brought to Sydney as seeds from Perth. If all goes well I may share several more photos involving these flowers as the season progresses. We'll see.
Anyway, that was 1/250sec at f5.6 (ISO 400) with the tamron 90mm macro and 2x TC. It was really the sort of shot where a diffuser could have been interesting to use. Can't quite match the Voigt for sharpness (-:
David
Rob Studdert wrote:
So a few minutes ago I finally put a flash on my *ist D and shot some macro images with my V125/2.5. The following example is not a great shot but it might give you an idea of the Voigt performance using flash:
It's a bug and it's almost 500kb in file size:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~audiob/temp/_igp6536.jpg
For the entomologists I think this is a Common Garden Katydid "Grasshopper" (Caedicia simplex) at the development stage of third instar nymph.
Tech details, V125/2.5 at 1:1, *ist D (Av f11, 1/150, ISO400, Flash WB), hot shoe mounted Metz 36CT2 + SCA372 on TTL with integrated diffuser.
Cheers,
Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
