Moth is in da house!

[Overread]

Yep - sitting here last night I noticed this beauty of a yellow moth on my lampshade - so I got out the tripod and lens and took some shots of him, once I had finished I moved away and started packing up the kit which is when he flew onto my shoulder and then onto a wood beam in my room -- so I had to put all the kit back together again!
ps I kept shutter speed up a little as firstly my room was rather dark at night, even with the light on the meter was reading well into the underexposure - but I had the lens right out on the tripod arm (055XPROB) and it would not freestand there

Taken with canon 400D, sigma 150mm f2.8 macro, speedlite 580M2+softbox (2*tleconverter also used in some shots)
(not he was upsidown when he was on the lampshade!)
The best results:

f13, ISO 200, 1/160sec, manual mode, tripod - 2*teleconverter also used
link to larger; http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/3264338328_a78ac68b42_o.jpg

f13, ISO 200, 1/160sec, manual mode, tripod - 2* teleconverter also used
link to larger: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/254/3264340078_6191eb25ee_o.jpg
I like his expression in this one

f13, ISO 200, 1/160sec, manual mode, tripod
link to larger: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/247/3263514413_559a446ffc_o.jpg

f13, ISO 200, 1/160sec, manual mode, handheld
link to larger: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/3264342266_ac678541d5_o.jpg

f20, ISO 400, 1/160sec, manual mode, handheld
link to larger: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/252/3263516971_4f59b5120c_o.jpg

Any comments/crits welcome thanks

also any id also welcome - need to get myself a good insect book!

 

[Antarctican]

Wow, nice shots there! Great detail, especially in its antennae.

(It looks like a 'pscyho' in that second shot (with its beady eyes, and its nose off to the side like that).

Or like a 'lolmoth' ("I are moth and I eatz yer clothes")

 

[Dmitri]

Well done, Overread. I think I like the last shot best, compositionally, but I agree with Anty about the nose in the second one. It's very Rocky Balboa