A very satisfying group of images; I particularly like the rampant beetle!
Leonard
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- Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:41 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: From Czech meadows and groves II
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1723
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 3:42 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Funnelweb spider male comes courting
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3275
Re: Funnelweb spider male comes courting
An interesting sequence and dissertation. I am a bit boggled by the amount of spider anatomy and physiology that has been sussed out over the years, but I guess that would be true in many areas of scientific inquiry.
Leonard
Leonard
- Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:56 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Robber Fly enjoying some Hover Fly juice
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2965
Re: Robber Fly enjoying some Hover Fly juice
A most excellent image, made more even impressive by it having been handheld!
Leonard
Leonard
- Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:52 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Vespid
- Replies: 4
- Views: 767
Re: Vespid
My thanks to all of you. Mark, my particular thanks for the additional information; I was previously ignorant on all three points, although I did correctly presume the potential for sting!
Leonard
Leonard
- Sat Aug 07, 2021 3:12 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Vespid
- Replies: 4
- Views: 767
Vespid
2020-03-22-16.12.07 DMap 7320-7367 WWSCScopy.jpg I encountered this handsome fellow one morning while sitting on my front steps watching my wife work in the garden. He had apparently been there overnight and, feeling as I sometimes do in the morning, decided it was a bit too soon to start moving ab...
- Mon Aug 02, 2021 4:57 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: A look into the seed-head of a Salsify
- Replies: 3
- Views: 568
Re: A look into the seed-head of a Salsify
Very nice!
My thanks to colohank and Mark for the id; I ran across these for the first time a couple of years ago in the Pacific Northwest. We don't have them here, and I was quite taken with them.
Leonard
My thanks to colohank and Mark for the id; I ran across these for the first time a couple of years ago in the Pacific Northwest. We don't have them here, and I was quite taken with them.
Leonard
- Mon Aug 02, 2021 4:51 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Drosophila
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1029
Re: Drosophila
I agree; excellent images, well presented.
I have a question: I am familiar with bleed in printing, but apparently missed the class on "bleed amount". What is it in this context, and why is it important?
Thanks for your indulgence!
Leonard
I have a question: I am familiar with bleed in printing, but apparently missed the class on "bleed amount". What is it in this context, and why is it important?
Thanks for your indulgence!
Leonard
- Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:01 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Sunflower emeritus
- Replies: 3
- Views: 623
Re: Sunflower emeritus
Thanks, Klevin, and I apologize for the omission. It was a Nikon 105 macro at f5.6 on an 850, natural (window) light, focusing stack created in camera and compiled with Zerene.
Leonard
Leonard
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 2:08 pm
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Sunflower emeritus
- Replies: 3
- Views: 623
Sunflower emeritus
DMap 7063-7135WCss.jpg Because it was part of a flower arrangement about to be replaced with fresher flowers, I removed and dissected one of the better senior citizens. This is detail of the brown inner floret. I suspect the white dots in the darker lower right may be trichomes on end or may be pol...
- Sun Jul 18, 2021 3:04 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: My local dragonflies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1931
Re: My local dragonflies
A really visually striking series of images, with a most helpful narrative explanation. Thank you!
Leonard
Leonard
- Sun Jun 27, 2021 3:28 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Acanthocephala
- Replies: 5
- Views: 894
Re: Acanthocephala
My thanks to you all for your kind comments. Rik, I would submit that what might be interpreted as his proboscis is actually the terminal portion of his right front foot with its reflection, perhaps made more confusing by distortion from a water droplet. I tried to produce a stereo view to help with...
- Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:16 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Acanthocephala
- Replies: 5
- Views: 894
Acanthocephala
retouched 4573-4692WCDenV3final.jpg Nikon 850, 105mm micro Nikkor The morning after a long hard rain I found this chap admiring his reflection in the hood of a (black) car. Having survived the night, he seemed disinclined to move and held his position for a 120 image stack before ambling off to fac...
- Sat Jun 12, 2021 3:37 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Minimally macro
- Replies: 2
- Views: 865
Re: Minimally macro
Poised on the brink of eternity--
I like this one a lot.
Leonard
I like this one a lot.
Leonard
- Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:23 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Lighting the Bee
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1121
Re: Lighting the Bee
Rik and Sym, Thank you for thinking about this with me. As an fyi, the SB-700 is a bit odd in that the duration is said to be almost the same at full output, 1/1042th of a second as it is at half output, 1/1136th. At 1/4, it drops to 1/2857th and only beyond there gets seriously brief. Any thoughts ...
- Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:01 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Lighting the Bee
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1121
Lighting the Bee
_DSC2918 copyWCDen.jpg Nikon 850, Nikon SB-700 on camera with improvised light piping and diffusion, f 16 @ 1/250th, ISO 160. Cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Topaz Denoise. Intrigued by some excellent field images recently posted on the site using diffused flash and numerically high f-stops c...