{"id":1671,"date":"2024-12-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:27:56","slug":"ladybird-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/ladybird-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladybird portriats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These portraits of the ladybirds were taken in my backyard on 14 November 2024. The parsleys are in full bloom. This attracted the Ladybirds. I took this opportunity to capture some macro photographs of these beneficial insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are fairly easy subjects because they are slow-moving and don’t seemed particularly disturbed by the presence of cameras and lenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this particular day, I was using the Nikon F-mount macro lens with a 2 times teleconverter attached. This gives me a reproduction ratio of 2:1 – 2 times life size. In contrast, the new Z-mount macro lens does not take a teleconverter. It is restricted to a 1:1 reproduction ratio unless a diopter such as a Raynox DCR-250 lens is attached. In many ways, the older lens is more flexible than the new lens. I sometimes do wonder why Nikon make design decisions such as this. Perhaps the decision was to prioritise image quality (for which the Z-mount lens is excellent) over flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikon Z9, Nikon AF-S VR Micro Nikkor 105mm f\/2.8G IF-ED, Nikon AF-S Teleconverter TC-20EIII<\/em><\/em>, Nikon FTZ II Nikon SB-5000, Crafty Bells Diffuser @ 210mm 1\/200s f\/22\u00a0<\/em>ISO<\/em>400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These portraits of the ladybirds were taken in my backyard on 14 November 2024. The parsleys are in full bloom. This attracted the Ladybirds. I took this opportunity to capture some macro photographs of these beneficial insects. They are fairly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,27],"tags":[53,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}