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Phlox Pheeding Sphinx (say aloud 3 times fast)
I SO ****ING HATE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY! But .... it was the only way to get these hand-held shots in the dark tonight. As I was coming back from putting out the first-round (of dozens) of nightly grub for an assorted friendly menagerie of some 50-70 wild raccoons, foxes, and opossums, I spotted this moth feeding by the house. I wasn't used to the flash on this superzoom camera, having never used its flash before, so this image was rather underexposed. Later, less interesting shots were properly exposed once I learned to use the 13 levels of TTL-metered flash-output, but this one had the nicest composition. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4822609827_0e86944322_b.jpg Though I'll probably use this one for ID purposes. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4822609831_4500176d31_b.jpg There's another with a full-on well-exposed dorsal view, but it looks like it was sitting on the flower instead of in-flight. Good for ID-ing, but lousy to show its behavior at the time. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4822609833_991c46c7b8_b.jpg Odd, the closest I can come to ID-ing it is the Laurel Sphinx, but it doesn't quite seem to match. Either way, this is a new species for my insect archives. Now, what was it that all you lying, deceitful, and condescending gutter-**** DSLR-TROLLS were saying about "P&S" camera shutter-lag and not being able to auto-focus fast enough in dim lighting? It was pitch dark out when I shot these tonight. Auto-focusing by the camera's dim focus-assist LED light alone, from 7-10 feet away. [As always, high JPG compression applied to entertain the thieves and armchair-photographer trolls.] |
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