{"id":1178,"date":"2008-07-22T00:07:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1178"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:49:00","slug":"cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

No not the game at which England excels :whistle:, but a speckled bush cricket. I spotted it in the house this evening and carefully took it outside. In return it posed patiently while I took some photos. These were taken with the 105 macro lens and ring-flash.<\/p>\n

On the card used to remove it outside<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

From the front<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Side view<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The last of those shots is a stacked image from three shots all at slightly different focus. I used Combine Z5 to do the stack. The software does all the hard work, but it allows greater depth of field by combining three images. You need a very still subject and either a tripod, or as in this case a firm base on which to steady the camera.<\/p>\n

Those shots are in my Insects and Bugs<\/a> album, along with some new butterfly photos.<\/p>\n

The next shot is from a series I took of a black-headed gull today in its summer plumage. For once the light was decent (is this really summer?), and shows the distinctive brown<\/i> marking on the gull's face from which it gets its name. To be fair, from a distance the face does look black.<\/p>\n

Black-headed gull<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

More of the gull in the July Birds<\/a> album.<\/p>\n

Camera note: the cricket was taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro and EM-140 DG ring flash. The gull was photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1048],"tags":[435,68],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket-insects-2","tag-cricket","tag-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t