Cinibar Moth ( Wrong! Spotted Burnet)

[NannyFerret]

Not a very good effort as I couldn't hold the camera steady once I had focused, but thought I would post them anyway as I was so chuffed to have found something alive to shoot. lol

Shot with the 70-300mm on the Macro setting.

 

I even had to sharpen these as much as I could.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Terry]

That first one is a cracker. Love the way the moth is coming over the top of the flower

[Leon]

excellent

 

intresting too, natural pest controller!!

 

Cinnabar moth

The cinnabar moth is a brightly coloured arctiid moth, found in Europe and western and central Asia. It has been introduced into New Zealand, Australia and North America to control poisonous ragwort, on which its larvae feed. Wikipedia

[NannyFerret]

Thanks for the encouragement.
John always tells me they are good to be kind, but I prefer to be told the truth and try to improve lol

I would have liked to get more detail, but never mind, it's all good practice. I think I will take my 55-200 mmm VR next time and carry my Raynox and 10X close up lens in my bag.

[annie]

nice nanny..

 

 

look more like burnets than cinnabars...

[geodar]

I always have a think about what kind of images I am looking for when I go out. if i'm after landscape then i'll have the 17-50mm & 70-300mm lens in the bag, if i'm after insects or close up's then the macro & 70-300mm lens is in the bag. the big lens is used when I can't or don't want to get to close, i.e. bees, wasps, birds etc.

in the past I would carry almost everything I have and the bag weighed a ton when carrying it around.

with the 70-300mm lens what I sometimes do is focus on the subject then switch to auto focus before I take a shot, seems to work well if there is a little breeze and there is some movement about.

geoff

[NannyFerret]

I don't take everything out with me either, Geo, to much strain on my neck and to much extra weight on my legs.

I wasn't prepared to see butterflies and moths as we were originally going to the fishing lakes, but John insisted that we were on the local train which stopped at every station, but it wasn't so we got off at Marston Green which is near the Birmingham airport.

 

Annie, you are right, I should have known it was a Spotted Burnet as it's in my book. I always get the two mixed up because of the colours.

Thanks for pointing it out..

[annie]

your welcome nanny.

[Heather]

not keen on no 1 not enough insect on show but does have good DOF 

no 2 i think you have framed the shot better, the colours and light are lovely too

[NannyFerret]

I think maybe I would have done better if I had gone round to the other side where the sun was shining onto them and not through them. What do you think?

[Heather]

im not sure tbh, i rather like the way the shadows are playing through the plants on the second one 

[NannyFerret]

I like the flowers more than the moth on the second one, Heather. lol