Photo by Shane Roberts
Procreation
While walking the woods on Kelleys Island, Ohio, (September 27, 2009) we came across this pair of Giant Black Ichneumonid Wasps. The black female checking for woodwasp larvae to parasitize; later shots in this series show her depositing eggs .
I love the natural vignetting created by the depth of field chosen by the camera.
Post processing notes:
The quality of the image in camera meant I only needed to minimal crop, adjust whites and blacks, and finally sharpen to make the image crisp. Canon EOS 5D with Canon EF 300mm f/4 IS and 1.4 ext - this gave me settings of ISO 800, 1/320 at f/6.3 in natural light Photographed as Canon .cr2 raw and developed by me, Shane Roberts using ON1 RAW 2026.4Exif information:
| Copyright: | Shane Roberts |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 5D |
| Aperture: | f/6.3 |
| Focal Length: | 420mm |
| ISO: | 800 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/320 sec. |
| Created: | September 27, 2009 12:15:03 |