Friday, July 10, 2009

Macro Moment #1

First off I need to apologize for the quality of this video! I'm not use to using a camera phone, but since the iPhone 3GS has a camera capable of video, and since I have it with me all the time, I thought I'd start documenting some of the techniques I use to photograph the critters. This morning at the lake seemed like a perfect opportunity -I just need to get better at using the video camera ;)

Here's the video of a sleeping solitary bee:



Here's one of the shots of that same bee:

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7 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 10, 2009 at 1:15 AM

    Thanks for sharing John!

    /Andreas

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  2. DalantechJuly 10, 2009 at 2:05 AM

    Thanks Andreas :)

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  3. UnknownJuly 10, 2009 at 8:13 AM

    Seems like you eat nails like me :)
    Thanks for the video

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  4. MichaelJuly 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM

    Cool, thanks for this.

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  5. DalantechJuly 11, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    Thanks folks! Morevideos to come.

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  6. i e ROctober 31, 2009 at 8:56 AM

    hi, wow, what do u mean they are sleeping? are they really asleep? dont they know u are 'swinging' the twig around? :) nice marco john~!

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  7. DalantechOctober 31, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    @ i e R: That's really how they sleep. When their metabolism slows down lactic acid builds up in their muscles, so their mandibles clamp down automatically. It's the same principle that allows a bird to sleep on a wire.

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