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by AlxndrBrg
Sun Dec 26, 2021 6:36 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Wasp Stinger 5x
Replies: 8
Views: 972

Re: Wasp Stinger 5x

Nice, what f-stop did you use? I usually get so much chromatic abberation when using the MP-E at high magnification. And did you use any post processing to get rid of it? However, are you sure it is a wasp? Every wasp I know is hairless. The subfamily Vespinae, e.g. Vespa , Vespula and Dolichovespul...
by AlxndrBrg
Mon Mar 29, 2021 11:10 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Another darkling beetle, Eusattus muricatus
Replies: 6
Views: 2242

Re: Another darkling beetle, Eusattus muricatus

Nice images, their roundness reminds me of Bolbelasmus , guess digging does that to beetles frustrated me that I couldn't find what colian meant, so I took a small google dive - it seems to be a common OCR error for "eolian" ie wind-processes. Which would also explain why it's hard to find a definit...
by AlxndrBrg
Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:22 pm
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Choice of processor
Replies: 19
Views: 7180

Re: Choice of processor

Thanks for sending me the files nielsgeode! Zerene Stacker's speed for a PMax stack with the same set of 200 images 24MP each on different Ryzen CPUs: Ryzen 2700x: 6min16s Ryzen 3900x: 5min42s Ryzen 3950x: 4min54s Tested my CPU, it took 10min10sec to complete a PMax stack (and alignment), and 6:35 i...
by AlxndrBrg
Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:21 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Choice of processor
Replies: 19
Views: 7180

Re: Choice of processor

For what it's worth: I have tested Zerene Stacker's speed for a PMax stack with the same set of 200 images 24MP each on different Ryzen CPUs: Ryzen 2700x: 6min16s Ryzen 3900x: 5min42s Ryzen 3950x: 4min54s I'm not sure, but I would expect that the contents of the images does not affect rendering tim...
by AlxndrBrg
Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:15 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Choice of processor
Replies: 19
Views: 7180

Re: Choice of processor

Thank you all very much for taking time to comment! Ok, so a Ryzen 5000X or higher seems like a good choice, I would need to get a new motherboard as well though. But to upgrade my Intel CPU it seems likely I would have to replace the motherboard anyway, since they use different sockets in their ran...
by AlxndrBrg
Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:05 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Choice of processor
Replies: 19
Views: 7180

Choice of processor

I recently got a camera upgrade at work, going from a Canon 6D to a 5Dsr, doubling the MP from 26 to 51. Understandably the stacking times in ZereneStacker have also increased, to the point where the computer cannot keep up with an automatic PMax stack while the camera shoots a frame every ~4 second...
by AlxndrBrg
Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:47 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Moldy bees?
Replies: 4
Views: 1941

Re: Moldy bees?

It's matted hair mixed with soil, perhaps because of the rains - the bees stay in their burrows during bad weather, and these are ground nesting Andrena sp. The mite is probably not parasitic, many bees have symbiotic relationships with Acari, just look up "acarinarium" and you'll see. Andrena does ...
by AlxndrBrg
Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:20 pm
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: symmorphus bifasciatus
Replies: 9
Views: 3065

Re: ichneumon wasp

it's an Eumeninae wasp, almost all Ichneumonidae have more than 16 antennal segments
by AlxndrBrg
Mon Jun 15, 2020 7:30 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Cubic pyrite crystals
Replies: 1
Views: 1924

Really nice, I like the lighting a lot, soft but not uninteresting, well done!
by AlxndrBrg
Wed May 13, 2020 1:25 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Problems with rendering details
Replies: 14
Views: 5467

I would have no clue about the 3D structure, just from looking at one of the full-stack images. Hmm, but would you have an idea of the general shape of the structures from just the lateral picture? In other words, would you have understood the shapes in the very first image as being how they are sh...
by AlxndrBrg
Wed May 13, 2020 1:18 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Problems with rendering details
Replies: 14
Views: 5467

Thanks for everyone's input! It gave me the idea that I can maybe try and shoot the same image with different lighting and exposure, without moving the subject, and then make a composite in PS to visually "distance" the different parts. Will be labour intensive though. Looking at some areas of your ...
by AlxndrBrg
Tue May 12, 2020 11:31 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Problems with rendering details
Replies: 14
Views: 5467

and here's a dorsal view, showing how well separated the two structures really are, which does not at all come across in the lateral view:
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by AlxndrBrg
Tue May 12, 2020 11:27 am
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: Problems with rendering details
Replies: 14
Views: 5467

Problems with rendering details

I have some annoying troubles to get details and shapes to render as "readable" in pictures of bee genitalia (it's for work, don't think I sit around photographing bee genitals for fun, no no, I only do that with cuckoo wasps :oops: ). I've tried different lighting, and experimented with different s...
by AlxndrBrg
Tue May 12, 2020 8:10 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Mining Bee
Replies: 4
Views: 1896

Nice shots, it is however not a mining bee (in the strict sense, that is the english name for the genus Andrena) although it has evidently mined itself a nest - it is a halictid bee, probably Lasioglossum, or perhaps one of the smaller Halictus species

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by AlxndrBrg
Tue May 12, 2020 8:06 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Bumblebee (?) portrait and others; now with actual images!
Replies: 5
Views: 2250

Nice, the bee is not a bumble one, but likely a species of Andrena
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