Long time no see this is what I usually say to people when I haven't seen them in a while. Recently I've picked up an online SACE course so have been a bit overwhelmed by that.

With my dad up in Mount Gambier for work, he's been out camping until he's got a rental. This weekend, just gone, he brought back a scorpion that had been pestering him. Not sure why he brought it back, but it's been named and now is a pet in the few days we've had it. Feeding wise my mum, Hive account@minismallholding, has been bringing it bugs that are eating our garden (she might be doing a post on Mosquito from her perspective make sure to check it out ☺). We set him up in a little habitat to mimic where it's from, in an old tub to make Mosquito happy.

Behind the scenes

The goal was to get a clear photo, good enough to use for identification purposes. It's hard to see a scorpion in its natural environment, so we wanted a contrasting background to help it stand out.

Photo taking was a bit spooky as it is a scorpion, so yeah! We transferred it to a white bowl so it couldn't run loose and we had a nice clean white background. Unfortunately, the bowl had a few marks from wear. To get a close-up view I used an 18-55mm Nikon lens with some macro filters.

Don't mind the weird jump from 2-4 it's been bothering me a bit, but it's because 1 and 2 makes the 3 so they made no +3.

I found using all 3 filters had quite a bit of blur around the edge which gave me blurring around the pincers as seen below and a bit in the first photo. So I decided to use just one, which got me close enough.

I also switched my camera so I could have the view from the viewfinder on my screen and keep my face away from the Scorpion.

Iso: 6400
Shutter speed: 1/50
Aperture: F/25