Ornate katydid
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Ornate katydid
Two of these katydids (genus Moncheca, species closest to M. elegans but color is wrong) came to a collecting light in our Rio Zunac research station in eastern Ecuador. I caught them and kept them alive for two weeks to photograph, and continued photographing them once they had died. The low-m shots are done mostly with the Olympus PEN F and in-camera focus bracketing with the Oly 60mm macro lens. Slightly larger versions are at www.ecomingafoundation.wordpress.com including male genitalia for ID
This (above) is just a single shot, not stacked.
This (above) is just a single shot, not stacked.
Last edited by Lou Jost on Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:24 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Thank you all very much for your kind comments! I was in the field (back at this same research station) these last two days so could not respond. This was a really inspiring subject for me, great fun to work with.
ChrisR, Photo 2 was a regular stack-by-rail, with my 135mm Vivitar/Komine and a Mitutoyo objective (either the 7.5x or 10x, I don't remember now). I used cross-polarized light, but purposely didn't make it perfectly crossed, so the highlights would be white instead of purple (since my polarizers aren't 100% effective at the shortest wavelengths.). Edit--This is still the PEN-F MFT camera.
ChrisR, Photo 2 was a regular stack-by-rail, with my 135mm Vivitar/Komine and a Mitutoyo objective (either the 7.5x or 10x, I don't remember now). I used cross-polarized light, but purposely didn't make it perfectly crossed, so the highlights would be white instead of purple (since my polarizers aren't 100% effective at the shortest wavelengths.). Edit--This is still the PEN-F MFT camera.
Last edited by Lou Jost on Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:34 am, edited 1 time in total.
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