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How To Shoot Cicadas | Wildlife Photography Field Guide | Summer Special | Insect Encounter | Closeup Photography

            

                    Cicadas are one of the most Spectacular Creature on earth, spends years underground came out once to breed and lives only 3-4 weeks .....

                   Summer is the best time for their mating and to lay eggs. They have unique and extraordinary life , extraordinary habits and behavior....

                    When we went to photograph them, we face some challenges. They were well Camouflaged, being coloured like tree bark and disruptively patterned to break up their outline. They fly rapidly to escape when they got disturbed.

Incredible Photo Opportunities

             There amazing and incredible moment to witness and capture and documentation.

Magical Emerging 

                         After spending a very long period of time in underground, they finally came out at Night , climb trees and started shedding their skin ,from a old nyph body emerge an adult one ...

                        

                         At this magical moment they look more marvelous. If you fire torch on their freshly emerged wings , you see such stunning iridescene.

All these Summer Cicadas emerging time can be count from late April through early May.

Singing Cicadas 

                

                   Cicadas sings loud buzzing song , we can heard it throughout the summer . This Songs is the Call from Male to Female , for Mating . An amazing fact , their volume can reach 80 - 100 decibel....

Mating Moment

                     When female Cicada receive Song call , she went  their and they make love . Its always so fascinating to witness such lovely bonding...

Insane Behavior

With Deep Observation and Creative thinking ,you can master your craft , when you spent your patience you got the gift you never expected...

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LANTANA CAMARA | UNLIMITED PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES | BEST FOR PRACTICING INSECT ENCOUNTER

Lantana Camara | Best Photo Opportunity | Best for All time Insect Encounter

                             Lantana Camara well known as Common Lantana is a species of flowering plant within the verbena family. Lantanas are quick growing and quick spreading Sherb . It's an Invasive species, undestroyed shurb , crowding out other native species and reducing biodiversity.  Learn more info... Wikipedia

                              Lantana have the  aromatic flower cluster consists a number of short flower stalks.  These flowers bloom round the year. Whatever the Season it's Smiles.....

   

    

It wellcomes so many beautiful insects , and give us the incredible photo opportunities.... Lantana is the best  for practicing Insect Encounter . 

➣ HEAVEN FOR BUTTERFLIES

                              As we already mentioned , lantana have the best bloom and  smiles round the year, so many Butterflies visits there. More like Common Mormon , Swallow tailed , Metallic cerulean, Monarch butterfly, Blue tiger butterfly , Skippers .... And many others....

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➣BEST FOR BEES 

                              Honey Bees wonder to gather honey . They visit thousands of flowers everyday . 

Lantan provide them much more they need.  Mostly The GIANT HONEY BEES visits. Grabbing Giant honey bees are often so risky and hard enough but while they are here its quite easier , because they are busy collecting nectar.....

➣MOTH

                             The most playful Humingbird Hawk Moth humming happily. All those beautiful blooms helps to freeze the hawk moth . Even a newbie photographer can get stunning shots.

➣ALSO AIDING OTHER INSECTS

    •CATTERPILLAR  

                                    Not just flowers but leafs are pretty much profitable. Caterpillars also found feeding Lantana leafs. 

     

   •WASPS and HORNETS

                 Wasps  and Hornets , they are also nectar lover and as they are parasiting insects and they need some caterpillar to lay eggs so they are the Lantana visitors. 

  Here we knew how Lantana is best to practice Insect Encounter and to grow .... There so many varieties of Mini Lantana Grafted plants available for  home and balcony gardens to wellcomes those Awesome Insects.......

                                           Happy Photography,

                                             All the Very bests...

BEST TIME TO SHOOT BUTTERFLIES | TRUE TIMING AND BEHAVIORS | GRAB YOUR FAVORITE

              Butterflies are one of the most Glamorous Creatures. So much pleasant and playful. Playful means they are much more unsteady and so why most of the time  it's hard to Grab them. But not always know, some of  the time they are more Captivating and give us the good photo opportunities... 

➪Morning Earlier

                 For any kind of Insects morning is the Best time. And for Butterflies it's really  helpful. Before having a furious flight they have sun ray bath in morning. They open their wings towards Sunlight. So why Morning is the Best time. 

➪While Sipping Nectar

              Most of the time Butterflies are so much busy and sipping flower nectars, and take enough time. And it could be all the day time. So spent time in garden and you will definitely found some moment of Sipping nectars and you will be proven Luck surely. 

➪During Mud Pudling

     

           Mud-pudling is one of the steady habits of Butterflies. And also it's so important for their healthy life. And there must be massive, you cought so many Butterflies together sitting and Pudling. 

➪EMERGING

              Witness the Emergence of a Butterfly is one of the most pleasing moment. It's magical and Memorable. To experience this incredible Transformation, from a pupa to Adult fully formed Butterfly, you need to study their lifestyle, know about their Host Plants, because each species have their unique hosts. and also about their distribution, location, season like stuff. And you will be happier than before.... 

➪ Mating Moment

                    Mating ❤ is a beautiful time. With all sense and capturing both male and female loving. But always remember not to Disturb them . As an insect Anthusiast you must shoot their activities with respectively and Carefully. 

➪Laying Eggs

               You need a good luck for this. But if you proven that much furtunate you can get incredible enocounter. 

➪Evening

               Even evening can be the best time. Some species are so much Clickable at golden hour. And some finished their daily work get tired  and  rest in bushes, and under the leaves. 

 

 

           And Finally , Well Wishes for you, ALL THE BEST...... 

Nest Makers | Insect Artisan ||

Nest, how much it can be artistic, attractive and unique. Insects, some artistic architecture those makes incredible nest or home. Tiny Artisans, see how they can be creative with tinest brain. It's so Awesome know. 

So here we go see some Artisan insect and their creative crafts. 

➪Carpenter Bee

             Carpenter Bees makes home so simply, they drill wood and make a safe and secure home inside. Outside it's seen a hole. But just look at the picture, there so many holes in wood and those different sizes, and designs is give it a wonder look. It's attractive, eye-catching... 

➪Paper Wasp

               Paper wasp are one of the social insect. Paper wasp are amazing artistic nest makers. They gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct their nest. And these are the Paper nest. Well built hive for larvas fertilization. Some nest are called umbrella nest. And just look that strong tied , that's fascinating... 

       There some species who make it more eye-catching. Round shaped , well roofed and waterproof. And those entrance are really lovely. 

➪Potter Wasp

                       Potter wasp are one of the most fabulous nest makers. They are mostly solitary ,, so they make their home alone. They building it like Pottery, so they known as Potter Wasp. It's a beautiful activity, they collect clay for it, choose perfect dust wet that make balls and bring it to the place where they settling. Safe Secure home for offsprings.  

Rama Warrier, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

➪Termite Temples

            Termites, the wood eaters, makes amazing Buildings like temple. They are Social insect and live in massive group, which is uncountable. They work hard champ soil, make it clay and construct big buildings. It's so tuff work, communication plays vital role here to make a great architecture. Well planned and  well finishing. Some how you can say the "Burz khalifa " is inspired by termites temple... 

 

Insect Transformation | Skin Moulting | Emerging Insect | Stage of Insect's Life | Getting their wings and Captivating Coloration | Changes in Appearance.

Insect Transformation, Skin Molting|Insect Emergence | Stage of Insect's Life | Getting their wings and Captivating Coloration|Changes in Appearance. 

    

Metamorphosis is  a biological process in Animal kingdom, where animal physically devlops , changes in body structure through cell growth and differentiation.

                   Insects undergo metamorphosis, which appear with a change in nutrition source and behavior.

Moulting is the shedding of the exoskeleton, insect shed their skin several times. It's necessary for  their growth of body. However , some insects has final molting,  they turn into a very unique form from their previous. These Transformation is extremely Incredible.

Insect Emergence

       It's so much phenomenal , witnessing any  Insects emerging is an incredible experience.It's shows their endurance and welcomes to a new life.

Lets see some models:

❏ Dragonflies and Damselflies

        Dragonflies/Damselflies spents all their nymph stage underwater, they are aquatic. But after the transformation ,all the adult were because Sky hunters. They got a slim and longer abdomen and two pairs of transparent wings to hover or hawk.they are quite same during larvae but when they emerge got spectacular Coloration each and every species have their own unique eye-catching Colouration.

❏  Butterflies and Moths

  

      The eating machine caterpillars of both moths and butterflies has most iconic life. They molted several time and when enough they transform into pupa, and later emerge full-grown adult, those are so spectacular colurful charming wings . They got a straw to suck  nectar from flowers . finally leaf chompers turn into sugar drunkers.

❏  cicadas:

           No one knows how hard Cicadas life is. They spent more than 17 years in underground. Their adult version is so much famous for their singing . They Produced loud music to call their lovemates. 

These Cicadas Transformation is so magical and so marvelous to witness. 

❏ Cranefly 

       The transformation of cranefly is not so popular and dramatic , but see how this tiny creature came out from his exoskeleton . Mostly others insect emerge through their back and like hanging but just see this Cranefly emerging upward. Isn't it surprising.

❏  Grashopers and Mantids

 

     

         Grasshoppers and Mantids like insects molt their such a Captivating way. They are the master of disguise, well Camouflaged, but while they takoff they looks more attractive.the transformation gift them wings to sail on the breeze.

HOW TO ENCOUNTER INSECTS | PRO TIPS FOR BETTER INSECT PHOTOGRAPHY | LETS MAKE AMAZING IMAGES WITH MOBILE PHONE |

 

TIPS FOR BETTER INSECT PHOTOGRAPHY WITH MOBILE,

(THIS BLOG IS FOR THE BEGGINERS OR THOSE WHO HAVE A VERRY GOOD MOBILE PHONE and INTERESTED IN INSECT PHOTOGRAPHY )

                      MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY IS A  TREND NOWADAYS. AND OUTSTANDING MINIMUM FOCAL LENGTH OF MOBILES IS SO GOOD ENOUGH TO DO BEST INSECT PHOTOGRAPHY. 

    

Photography is a skill to tell story , aware people , Grabbing beauty and loveliness. To connect viewers we have to compose our pictures such a way that stantout .here we are going to talk about some  helping solutions for  better insects photography. 

  

" before go for shoot ,you must have some knowledge about  yor subject.  you need to know about the behaviour and habitat of the insects.    

➥SHOOT EARLY IN THE MORNING 

Insects are less active in the morning and they are quite slow, so early morning is the best timing for photographing the insects 

      because they charged up later in  worm of sun and became more active and hard to get in capture 

➥SHALLOW DEPTH OF FIELD 

Shallow depth of field is so useful to weed-out the insect from background. when using camera its technicaly adjustable or its can be handle in camera settings.but,

                                                       In mobile its something  difficult. you need to change angels, get slow down,avoid zoom and go too closer etc.

in this picture i just tried my all possibilities and  when i get slow down the fly is isolated from background (that was so complicated  )

➥ SHOOT INSECT IN ACTION 

INSECTS ARE ALSO IN STICK TO WORK. LIKE US, THEY HAVE THERE DAILY TASKS. 

So capture them in action,it will be so dramatic and obviously being an attention paying photograph.

     ● OBSERVATION

                 Observation played the vital role in all kind of photography .  if you dont observe you know nothing. 

                         So start observing the  insects, that "what they do !" ,"how they do!" and all their behaviours and habitats you know from observations. 

         "TO BECAME A BEST INSECTOGRAPHER 

BE  A  BEST OBSERVER"

so they are seen in so many actions 

here some examples....

■EATING /IN  HUNT

Some insects are vegetarian and  some  are  non-vegetarian . and when you shot any insect while eating or in hunting its carried some  story or creat a thought in viewer's...

■IN MOTION 

       Take so shots of the insects in motion or in flight . these types of shots are so attractive and  fabulous. 

  

       to freeze the motion you need to get in manual mode. set focus continuous and high numbers of  shutter_speed/fps.

(if your mobile  dont have manual mode in default, then install an application from play store)

■MATING COUPLE 

Shoot the insects when they are loving or the COUPLE  ARE MATING 💕💕💕💕

 ➥BE CREATIVE 

MAKING  A   PHOTOGRAPH IS  ACTUALLY MAKING AN  ART  ,SO YOU NEED TO BE CREATIVE...

   

               AND  YOUR CREATIVITY DEPENDS ON  YOUR PROSPECTIVE. THE WAY  YOU LOOK AND FIND THE CREATIVITY THROUGH YOUR  THOUGHTS

●SHOOT  IN  DIFFERENT ANGLES 

To make your shot  more attractive you need to try different angles. because every angles have there unique visions

here some examples 

■TOP : 

TOP ANGLES IN INSECTS PHOTOGRAPHY ARE MOSTLY USED  FOR  BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS , BUT AS YOUR PROSPECT YOU CAN SHOOT ANY INSECT....

■SIDE :

SIDE LOOKS OF THE  INSECTS ARE PROBABLY PREETY GOOD.  IN  SIDE ANGLE  YOU CAN SHOW THE STRUCTURE OF MANY INSECTS.

■FRONT  :

IN FRON VIEW YOU CAN  SHOW THE FACE OF THE INSECT  , THAT MAKE PICTURES MORE AWESOME.

                     THIS  ANGLE IS SO USEFUL BECAUSE YOU CAN  POINT /FOCUS BOTH EYE OF THE INSECTS.

■LOW:

SHOOT  WITH LOW ANGLE TO GET THE BEST  VIEW AND INFORMATIVE SENSE IN PICTURES....

●COMPOSITIONS

 NATURE IS THE SUPREME COMPOSER, COMPOSED THE  SCENERIES THAT WE CAN'T  FRAME THEM IN ONE.

SO AS PER OUR FRAMING CAPABILITIES WE HAVE TO COMPOSE THE  SCENE AS WE WANTS.....

             WE  CAN   SHOOT  INSECT  WITH BASIC  COMPOSITION LIKE ,RULE OF THIRD, POTRAIT,FRAMED SOTS.......ETC.

●BLACK & WHITE

INSECTS ARE ALSO LOOKS DYNAMIC IN B&W ,SO TRY  SOME  B&W  SHOTS.

➥3P : THREE PEARL OF PHOTOGRAPHY 

PASSION IS EVERYTHING,AND PASSION IS THE POWER TO   " WILLING  FOR  "

          AND YOU HAVE  SO MUCH PASSION ON INSECT PHOTOGRAPHY, SO WHY YOU ARE READING THIS BLOG. ..

         

So 3P ,are PROTECTION, PATIENCE & ,PRACTICE 

●PROTECTION 

PROTECTION IS SO IMPORTANT, BE SAFE IS THE PRIMARY THING. 

         INSECTS ARE TINY  BUT THEY CAN HARM YOU BIG. BE CAREFULL WHILE SHOOTING THE  INSECTS ,THEY CAN BITE OR STING YOU. THEY SO DANGEROUS AND INJURIOUS....

●PATIENCE 

IT'S NOT  SO EASY ALWAYS TO CAPTURE INSECTS . YOU NEED SO MUCH PATIENCE,BECAUSE YOU MAY HAVE TO WAIT MORE AND MORE TIME TO GET SOME STUNNING SHOTS AND SOMETIMES YOU MAY NOT GET THAT SHOT YOU CLING TO.

SO PATIENCE IS NECESSARY...

●PRACTICE 

PRACTICE IS COMPULSORY. ITS DOES NOT MATTER HOW MUCH YOU READ OR LEARN ,

IF YOU'RE NOT APPLYING THEM ON YOUR ACTION. ALL ARE DEPENDING ON YOUR PRACTICE 

         "only PRACTICE can makes you PERFECT "

➥POST EDIT WORKS

SOME PEOPLE DO NOT ETID THEIR  PICTURES,AND THIS IS THEIR BIG MISTAKE .

                AFTER CAPTURING A  BEUTIFUL IMAGE YOUR WORK NOT FINISH ,YOU NEED TO GIVE FINISHING TOUCH TO THAT IMAGE IN POST EDIT WORKS. 

ITS NOT THAT MEAN ADDING UNNECESSARY FILTERS AND EFFECTS ,

IT'S SIMPLY COLOUR CORRECTIONS.

SO THESE ARE SOME  HELPFUL SOLUTIONS FOR BETTER INSECT PHOTOGRAPHY ....

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