Showing posts with label Cicindelephilia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cicindelephilia. Show all posts

Sunday, February 7, 2010

one of my favor MACRO Model - Tiger Beetle

think this was one of the beautiful/cute creature attract me into MACRO photography while I was still using my Pns (~2 years ago)

let me make a count how many types I managed to capture so far , and let talk about it's behavior

1. common in hill/lowland forest
- quite sensitive but still allow get close if we move slowly
- while we use flash, 50% it will move or flew off
- normally on leaf
2.7 Tiger Beetle 深山小虎甲   ... Side view

2.7 Tiger Beetle 深山小虎甲   ... Portrait

2. common in forest could be far from stream
- super sensitive not easy to get close (even with 150mm + 1.4tc)
2.12 Tiger Beetle ... 長頸虎甲蟲 Neocollyris lformasana

... "hamsap" fellow ...

3. common near low land forest close to stream with sand
- sensitive, not easy to get close need to move really slow
- depend season, sometime a lot but sometime .. just disappear
- while mating season, you will see them keep mating non stop but most of them only for ~5-10sec
2.29 Tiger beetle Cicindelephilia 八星虎甲蟲 Cosmodela batesi

2.29 Tiger beetle Cicindelephilia 八星虎甲蟲 Cosmodela batesi

4.can found on few beach
- when found normally gang of them
- love to mating, and look like they don't know how to different male or female until make it
- sensitive but easy to get close especially mating time .. not easy to shoot single
How tiger mating !!!

... pls queue up ...

5. only found @one beach near Sepang
- many of them
- love to mating
- super sensitive, even mating. almost impossible to get close as type 2 but this normally found group of them so easy t get shots

... it is hot and this is how "tiger" stand ...

Cicindelephilia - in action

6. common in forest
- less sensitive , can easily get close
- but didn't see it mating so far
most easier tiger beetle

Monday, January 11, 2010

How I shoot MACRO - dirty, wet, drive far... only for this ...

was driving ~42KM from my in law house (~40KM from Kuala Lumpur) to a beach no people swim, no plant around, only few birds flying around, bad mug smell, a "weird" photographer (as my claim, where got ppl drive so far for a beetle only) and the only good thing here is the tiger beetle (this yet to found from other location but here got thousand of them)
.. then the photographer got dirty & dirty... and camera are full of sand ... and this is how it look like




and this is really hot day, they are not really in mood of mating (only found few pair doing it and capture 2-3 pictures of mating) but most of them standing using this pose ... think is the way they relief heat ....

... it is hot and this is how we stand ...

... is the photographer weird ???
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