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31-Jul-2024 Dave

11 Hot Emergence

We haven't had cicadas until the last week or so.
Perhaps they were waiting for the heat?
This one was on our house as I was leaving for work.

Apple iPhone 14 Pro
1/60s f/1.8 at 6.9mm iso250 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge06-Aug-2024 12:49
No need to change it. This is great as it is. Auto white balance looks for a mid-point in the histogram to set the "grey" point. Your wall dominates.
As to changing it on your phone, I have never done that - only on my pc. I'll have to look into it. I just transfer everything I shoot on my phone to the Adobe cloud, then on to my pc.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge06-Aug-2024 11:40
Thanks for the suggestion, Jim. Unfortunately, the challenge deadline has passed.

I'm not sure how to do what you recommend to an image captured on my phone. Maybe best to do it there rather than on my computer?

The light was natural.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge06-Aug-2024 03:25
Dave - I just downloaded the photo. If I lower the temp of the white balance a little, the back wall can be easily turned a dark blue. There is little to no effect on the green in the wings. The shell dulls a bit. The yellows are weakened.
I am assuming that the light that was present on this guy was quite warm - a bulb with a hot filament for instance.
The camera then with an auto white balance turned the wall grey.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge06-Aug-2024 03:16
Dave - that is interesting about the background.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge06-Aug-2024 02:39
The green is true and may be what caught my attention. The background is actually dark blue.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge05-Aug-2024 13:10
It is probably a true green. It will depend on the white balance Apple used. In poor lighting, it will use auto. Outdoors it seems to use the sunlight temp and tint. With the grey background it is on, auto would have given a proper white balance. Another good tell is the shell color which looks right to me as well.
If I understand their post processing work, they combine the multiple shots they take primarily for both noise reduction and increased depth of field.
I have done calibration tests of my iPhone 12 and my 90D outside and it seems to be spot on. I would assume that the 14 is as well.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge05-Aug-2024 04:14
The green may be true...I thought that maybe the Apple was adding to this effect...so I looked up cicadas and they frequently do have a sort of neon green to their wings...I thought this was post processing...which when properly used I see as a virtue...so this, I think could be either....all my bugs are brown, an evolutionary positive...here in CA, but I have seem images with t his intense green also...but only you know how true to reality this image is? You saw it....what do you think? Traveller
Canon Image Challenge05-Aug-2024 03:09
No need for apologies. My 80D was inside the house with my macro lens mounted, but I did not have time to retrieve it. I took care with composition and focus and did not use any of the phone camera's advanced settings. How much (if any) better would the "real" camera's results have been? I can only speculate. I am curious about the reasons for the green and will research it when time allows.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge04-Aug-2024 13:29
I will probably get the Pro version. It is the camera driving my decision to upgrade. I'm not sure I want the larger max. I am considering the new Pixel 9, and even the new Samsung 24. I just saw my daughter's new Samsung 23 - and the screen is really clear and sharp compared to my iPhone 12.

I was in the the Carlsbad Caverns last week. Tough lighting. For many of my photos, the iPhone outperformed the 90D even when I shot 3 hdr photos (plus and minus 2 stops) and combined them in LR. I'll share that someday when I get through with my post work.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge04-Aug-2024 12:51
Jim are you going to get the pro or pro max version of the iPhone 16? Pro versions have a slightly better cameras. Paul
Canon Image Challenge04-Aug-2024 06:14
I apologizing for suggesting that you might, (even artistically!), actually work on an image in Post Processing. The fault lay in the fact that I first looked that this on my Chromebook, (which is generally very good color-wise), where the greens paled significantly.

The colors popped much better on my general photo computer...(to do a little PP is not generally an insult).

Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge04-Aug-2024 01:29
T- remember this is a iPhone 14 photo. The photo is always a composite of multiple images and is a processed image. Your 6D takes but one image which you have to post process with Photoshop. Or you can shoot multiple shots, varying the focal distance or aperture and combine them with software.
I have been comparing my iPhone 12 to my 90D. Depending on the subject, the IPhone image looks better or worse that the DSLR. Sometimes I have to tweak the image.
I will (probably) be buying a iPhone 16 this fall and try to master its strengths.

In the case of this insect, we are seeing a really good image pop out of the camera.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge04-Aug-2024 00:52
The image is unmodified, Traveller.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge03-Aug-2024 17:59
I sense, though maybe incorrectly, that this is a second iteration...the first seemed to lack the color and good wing definition,,,but now it is very fine. Traveller
Canon Image Challenge02-Aug-2024 11:29
I remember stories in the spring and early summer about the two broods emerging together for the first time in hundreds (?) of years and looking at a map and seeing it wasn't happening here. So whatever brood this is, I imagine it's emerging at its usual time.

Dave
Guest 01-Aug-2024 23:13
Seems like it has been warm enough for emergence for a while. Some broods just later than others?
Canon Image Challenge01-Aug-2024 12:16
Good capture. They certainly don't emerge in the cold; but they also don't emerge every year in the heat. Weird insect.
I love the colors you show on the wings.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge01-Aug-2024 11:47
Great find and timing on your part. This has been an odd cicada emergence for us, we’ve had virtually none where other parts of the metro are seeing high numbers. When I was down at the lake in late May helping my old friend Ken they were everywhere.

On another note I hear cicadas all day every day, the medical profession calls it tinnitus I say BS, I think I’m paying for the sins of my youth. Paul