Unfortunately a macro lens and flash is not in my budget right now :( Even buying those things used on eBay is like $1000!
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My setup is Nikon AF-S 60mm F2.8 G macro and Godox V350N flash.
Less than $400 USD altogether, and it works perfectly on Z9 (although you need a FTZ adapter).
There are some good macro diffusers on Aliexpress for around $40 USD if you can’t be bothered making one.
Welp, it happened to me today :(
My camera’s storage got filled with bad photos, so I missed the chance to photograph most of today’s sightings. Luckily I had a mobile with me at the time, so I did get a few photos.
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I wish I could get one of those, but money conversion makes even a cheap camera costly.
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Oh, that sucks.
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I’m reading a thread about iNat merch, and I came across several posts about a homemade patch for a baseball cap / hat, which actually mentioned this thread:
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I set up a reptile survey a couple of weeks ago on a site that I will be monitoring for a couple of months. The project was designed so that the route could be walked in under 2 hours while scanning for basking reptiles and checking the 28 refugia I’d set out along the route. Sadly this only works if interesting creatures have the decency to hide while I’m doing it so I don’t have to spend an extra hour or so taking macro photos of tiny spiders and chasing butterflies.
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You get everyone you know who has even the slightest appreciation for nature to make an iNat account (which none of them have really used…) and give them a full tutorial.
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You see the “bug reports” section of the forum and immediately think people are sharing a ton of photos of insects, but you realize that, in fact, it is just discussing errors in the INaturalist system.
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When you know these following words and phrases:
Gall mite
Taxonomic battle
Powdery mildew
IDer
Inatting
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You watch Moana 2 in theaters with your family and freak out when the Lagoon Triggerfish shows up on screen, turn to a relative to explain your excitement, and tell them that there were Clown Triggerfish in the previous film.
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The first Moana movie has Hibiscus tiliaceus, Pandanus, Epipremnum, Gardenia taitensis, and other plants you could find in Polynesia.
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Your job is helping organize a city nature challenge event and you get to help with the planning and execution!
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Who are you talking about?
I’m not exactly sure what you mean, but we’re going to go to two different city parks and basically showing people how to use iNaturalist and taking them on guided hikes.
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OH OH! You’re saying you know you’re seriously into iNat when your job is helping organize a CNC event!
It seemed like you were replying to someone.
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Last year a wasp stung me in the finger and had a hard time to get away…
Afterwards with pain, I told my dad that that would have been so awesome pictures, but even if I had had my mobile next to me, I maybe would have missed to make pictures. .
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It’s a year later… keep your mobile close!
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The reason I got a Google Pixel - Soley for the purpose of my iNat observations!
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You know you’re seriously into iNat when you dream about checking the venation on Lespedeza leaves to see if it is the native Slender Bushclover or the invasive Chinese Bushclover.
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