Sting in the tail

[headshed69]

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/headshed/DSCF1192.jpg

Comments welcome. Thanks

[paradise]

Neat shot, can use a bit more contrast, and a crop where it's leading instead of following. Space in front instead of behind the subject.

[headshed69]

This was submitted how it was taken. The lil blighter was walking and kept on missing the centre of the frame. I felt that if I cropped it, it'd look too tight.

[alanhill]

The focus is about 1mm too far out, so the nearer parts are not as sharp as they might be. Not only will the photo seem to be sharper if the nearer antenna is sharper than the further one, indeed it will be sharper becuase the 1/3 of the zone that is in focus (the depth of field zone) is in front of the plane of focus and 2/3 is behind it. The difference in the focus is tiny, but the effect on the antenna, wing and legs would be quite significant.

Alan

[Simonauv]

The shot was taken at f3 too. A deeper DOF with a setting somewhere from f8 upwards may have helped as well. The trade off is you need extra light which would probably mean the built in flash so it may then look flashed out *shrugs*. I normally find that if I have to shoot with a shallow DOF then I want make it look deliberate by taking front on leading shots or a slightly angled perspective from the front.

Funny you should post a shot of these things now. We are being over run by them right now. There are thousands all through our yard driving us insane. I go to sneak up on something interesting to take it's photo and buzzzzzzz - I'm running around the yard like and idiot flapping and waving the camera around cos the thing is in my face and angry lol I've been stung three times in the last 3 months (first one was a ripper - I was hanging a gate across our driveway and I backed into a bush that had a nest in it. It was hot and I had no shirt on and they swarmed out all over my back and stung me repeatedly - apart from intense pain I had little reaction that time, but a few weeks ago I stood on one with bare feet and it got me on the arch of my foot. My foot swelled up and I started to feel nauseated and had to have a large antihistamine dose which knocked me out for 6 hours - was intense) and each time my reaction is getting worse. So be careful taking pics of these guys. The more often you get stung the worse the histamine reaction gets until you may require hospitalisation to treat the effects with adrenalin.

[headshed69]

Damn I'll definately treat them with some respect! I've been stung twice on two seperate occaisions in exactly the same place! On the right hand side of my neck.

As for the photo I removed him from the house and so I thought while he was still there I'd garb a few shots. Wasn't really aiming for a professionally taken pic at all. Just grabbing a moment in time! :-D

[Simonauv]

These are the bad boys giving us so much grief atm - Introduced Asian Paper Wasps

http://aquatic-photography.com/gallery/files/2/0/2/8/asianpaperwasp2.jpg

http://aquatic-photography.com/gallery/files/2/0/2/8/asianpaperwasp3.jpg

http://aquatic-photography.com/gallery/files/2/0/2/8/asianpaperwasp1.jpg

[headshed69]

Cracking pics! B-)

[headshed69]

Here are two more from the same series...again no cropping or special tinkering done here. Posted as taken. Comments welcome.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/headshed/DSCF1189.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/headshed/DSCF1191.jpg