These are spitfire lavae (Sawfly). They stick together as a group during the day on Eucalyptus trees. When threatened they wriggle their tails and bring up a thick glob of concentrated eucalyptus oil. Rather gross but fascinating !!
These photos were taken just outside of a small town in central Portugal.
I really enjoy creating something different with drones. I've had the Mavic now for about four weeks and I absolutely love it.
Client came and needed headshots immediately. Set up a single Broncolor Para 133 in the dining room. Delivered 20 pics. Setup, Shoot, Edit and delivered within 30 minutes.
This is a water reservoir for the city of Curitiba, Brazil
Here are a couple long exposure shots using my original 50 year old Minolta SR-T201 and kit lens shooting Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 II. Both images were taken just at the end of blue hour.
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Interesting! I wouldn't try to eat them even if they didn't have the eucalyptus oil. But I bet it works well for birds and lizards. I would like a little more depth of field. But the depth you have is placed nicely, hard to do with so many subjects.
I think another interesting angle of this would be to lower the camera and try to focus on one or two of the two closest to the tip of the leaf. And you could try to find angle that gets the face(s) and tail(s) in focus, and leaves the others falling out of focus in the background.