Insects with non macro lenses

[wev]

The wind was kinder, so this is a little better, I think

 

[wev]

The digger wasp was back, looking tired after a hot day feeding

 

[aroy]

Bonus bees while shooting flowers. Did not realise till I loaded in computer.

 

[paul04]

This dragonfly would not stay still, every time I got the focus just right it would fly to the next leaf, but got there is the end.

 

[wev]

Skipper

 

[wev]

If the bee wants to eat, you better get out of his way

 

[paul04]

Not quite sure what this insect is, lucky for me, it sat patientlywhile I took its picture.

 

[Roy1961]

a yellow jacket eating lunch, 50-500 sigma

 

[wev]

 

[Eyelight]

Must have stopped for a rest, 'cause I don't think there is any food here. But then again what do flies eat?

 

[wev]

With its ten yard long legs all splayed out, there just isn't a good way to capture these guys without some amputation

 

[paul04]

Bit tricky to get this shot, as the wind was moving the flowers, had to take a couple of shots before I got this one, worth the wait.

 

[wev]

 

[Blacktop]

Love is in the air.
18-55mm @55mm cropped at I have no idea what %

 

[wev]

First time a dragonfly has stopped by the house. It landed right in front of me on the shady side of a bush and I had to lean back hard against a fence to get back far enough to focus. I had to use the on-board flash and didn't have my little diffuser to kill the glare, but better than nothing

 

[wev]

A closer crop

 

[Blacktop]

First time a dragonfly has stopped by the house. It landed right in front of me on the shady side of a bush and I had to lean back hard against a fence to get back far enough to focus. I had to use the on-board flash and didn't have my little diffuser to kill the glare, but better than nothing

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i'm really staring to like that Tamron 16-300mm lens. Still looking for a walkabout lens, this may be in the running now.

 

[Roy1961]

 

[Bob Blaylock]

I shot a few insects using the 18-55 VRII and the 50mm F1.8 AF. Though not macro shots, with some cropping you can get quite some detail…

Given that a major use, these days, for digital photographs, is to post them on the web in a manner that doesn't really benefit from much more than about a megapixel or two of resolution, this certainly makes a good excuse for wanting the resolution of a modern 24-megapixel camera—it gives you a lot of room to crop down to a tiny part of the picture and still have acceptable quality in that picture, at least for web posting; which gets around the need for either a long telephoto lens that you don't have, or a macro lens that you don't have.

 

[wev]

An ugly brute eating my passiflora