A Really Angry Yellow Jacket with STINGER

[cgipson1]

comments welcome!

 

[480sparky41 41]

I'd comment, but I'm too busy running out of the room, screaming like a little girl.........

 

[cgipson1]

hahahaha... it only hurts for a little while!

 

[Ernicus]

well, I snapped some of those things today..and I was going to post them. Was...lol.

Nice shot.

 

[cgipson1]

well, I snapped some of those things today..and I was going to post them. Was...lol.

Nice shot.

Thank you.. and you should still post yours! It is all in fun!

 

[Ernicus]

lol, yeah, I was gonna, I may still, kinda tired. too busy messing with my model shots tonight...I have computer eyes now.

 

[cgipson1]

lol, yeah, I was gonna, I may still, kinda tired. too busy messing with my model shots tonight...I have computer eyes now.

I understand... it is tiring sometimes! A overnight break will make a world of difference... it is too easy to miss things when you are tired!

 

[Photographiend]

I really like that shot.

 

[cgipson1]

I really like that shot.

Thank you.. I have been shooting Yellow Jackets a lot lately! Lots of them around, and pretty good subjects for the most part! You are new here... so you probably didn't see this one from a week or two ago!


Yellow Jacket Face by CGipson Photography, on Flickr

 

[cgipson1]

bump for the "Stinger"!

 

[sm4him]

WOW.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
That's all. Just...WOW.
Every time I open one of your threads lately, I actually gasp out loud at my computer monitor.

hahahaha... it only hurts for a little while!

Sure, unless you're allergic.
I'm not allergic to the actual stings; but I am allergic to the very idea of getting stung.

 

[cgipson1]

WOW.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
That's all. Just...WOW.
Every time I open one of your threads lately, I actually gasp out loud at my computer monitor.

hahahaha... it only hurts for a little while!

Sure, unless you're allergic.
I'm not allergic to the actual stings; but I am allergic to the very idea of getting stung.

Must have missed this!

Sharon.. THANK YOU! I am glad I make you GASP! <wink wink... nudge nudge!> lol! Fun subjects! You haven't been posting any macro lately.. what's up?

 

[leeroix]

care to tell us how you did these?

 

[cgipson1]

care to tell us how you did these?

Sure..

the first one.. I used a Nikon 105 macro lens, and and SB-900 (1/2 power manual) mounted on the camera, with a Westcott Micro Apollo diffuser on it. Don't have the exif data as I am at work.. but probably about F22, 1/200, ISO100. After about ten shots.. the YJ was getting irritated, buzzing his wings, and whipping that butt around.... stinger came out, and I shot it!

#2... had a captured yellow jacket in the house sitting on a white piece of paper (story on that in the original thread.. yes.. I got stung! lol) . I had put him in the fridge for a couple of minutes to make him lethargic, so I could get some shots off before he tried to fly. Nikon 105 Macro lens with probably about 25mm of extension tubes, maybe more... Nikon R1C1 macro flash units (at 1/2 power) with homemade diffusers. Probably F18, ISO 100 at 1/160 (all in manual mode)

Hope that helps!

Original Yellow Jacket thread http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/macro-photography/292544-business-end-pissed-off-wasp.html

Focus stacking yellow jacket thread http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/macro-photography/292787-teaser-giant-wasp-eats-denver.html

Edit : forgot to mention I shoot macro by hand 99% of the time.. the only time I tripod it, is when I am focus stacking...

 

[sm4him]

WOW.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
That's all. Just...WOW.
Every time I open one of your threads lately, I actually gasp out loud at my computer monitor.

hahahaha... it only hurts for a little while!

Sure, unless you're allergic.
I'm not allergic to the actual stings; but I am allergic to the very idea of getting stung.

Must have missed this!

Sharon.. THANK YOU! I am glad I make you GASP! <wink wink... nudge nudge!> lol! Fun subjects! You haven't been posting any macro lately.. what's up?

:blushing: :badangel:

I haven't posted much of ANYthing lately...except increasingly snarky comments, maybe. Haven't gotten to do ANY photography worth noting in about three weeks--it's really making me want to SHOOT something! I'll leave it to the imagination as to whether I mean with a camera.
Just been really busy at work and without a car--so I can't GO anywhere and do some photography right now, I haven't been carrying my camera to work with me (since it's a half mile to and from the bus stop, and I already have a backpack of stuff to carry) and I'm mostly too tired when I get home to even bother going out to the back yard. Actually, I DID make one little foray into the backyard for a damselfly that wanted a portrait session, but haven't even processed them.

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. Okay, I'm complaining.
But this too, shall pass. There's hope on the horizon for both a car and a day off! And THEN, I shall go and SHOOT something! And I DO mean with a camera. :camera:
But I'd bet it won't be as stunning as that yellow jacket!!