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- Tue Feb 04, 2020 9:39 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Bee identification, please, anyone?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2241
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 9:52 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Chrysididae from Armenia 2019
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2927
Rich color and detail! Loved #2 Thanks! These are beautiful. If I could make some constructive criticism, though, the eyes are out of focus in nearly every one. It looks like you just barely missed getting them in focus. The eye shaprness is psychologically important; the unsharp eye gives an impre...
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 3:40 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Chrysididae from Armenia 2019
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2927
Thank you both!
Edit: actually, I mostly used this kind of diffuser: http://makrofokus.se/blogg/2015/1/24/lampdiffusorn.html
Canon 6D with a MP-E 65 at around f:10, and a Meike Mk300 flash with a "John Hallmén"-pattern ice cream box diffuserdolmadis wrote: What kit settings etc., did you use?
Edit: actually, I mostly used this kind of diffuser: http://makrofokus.se/blogg/2015/1/24/lampdiffusorn.html
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Chrysididae from Armenia 2019
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2927
Chrysididae from Armenia 2019
Had a great trip to Armenia this summer, lots of chrysidid wasps and other insects. Gave me the opportunity to photograph live specimens of some species (and species groups/genera) which I dont think has ever been imaged live before. Haven't been shooting live specimens for a long time, so the unusa...
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 4:24 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Ergonomics of photomacrography
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1707
Re: Ergonomics of photomacrography
I can't speak for your specific case, but until recently I spent quite some time behind a dissection microscope myself. In this time I mostly used one of these saddle stools and found this preferable to a normal chair (which I was forced to use at times). Can highly recommend trying this change! Th...
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:44 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Ergonomics of photomacrography
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1707
Ergonomics of photomacrography
I have recently started have problems with my back, neck and shoulders from spending too much time at my work station, so much that a change is clearly needed. Was thinking that the forum users here must have accrued a lot of wisdom over the years when it comes to the ergonomics of photomacrography....
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 4:31 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Solitary Bee
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1349
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 7:40 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Balloons in pits, brown marmorated stink bug
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9112
As a bona fide entomologist maybe I should weigh in here, although I'm more of a taxonomist than sensory biologist. Would say they are mechano-receptors, as a balloon shape does not make much sense for a chemo-receptor. A chemo-receptor wants a lot of surface area to volume ratio, so a long thin rod...
- Mon May 27, 2019 6:05 am
- Forum: Macro and Close-up Archives
- Topic: Moving black spots on the eyes of a mantis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 53821
I've read that there infact should be I think six secondary spots around the main spot. They are probably hard to see though. ... I must say that when I've held a dragonfly in my hands with very big eyes, and moved it very close to my own eyes, the surface seems to float too. Maybe the same effect....
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:47 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Colorful orchard spider probably Leucauge venusta
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7415
With those thin palps it's a female for sure. The silvery facets are actually inside the animal, underneath it's transparent skin. I dont think the individual silvery "divets" are cells, they are far too big, they are probably guanin mirrors which is used as a silvery back light (much like in octopi...
- Thu Apr 04, 2019 3:59 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Black insect
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3883
- Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:35 am
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Brightness compensation in ZereneStacker
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2765
Brightness compensation in ZereneStacker
Maybe this is a known behavior in ZS, but I thought I'd post it here anyway since the difference was so drastic. My setup uses constant lighting, so there is no real reason why I should use the brightness compensation, just kept it on since figured it it could help some if one of my Jansjö's got bum...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:12 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Warning: Don't use Laserpointers on your camera!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3684
Re: Warning: Don't use Laserpointers on your camera!
How would the laser create a dead pixel on the sensor if you only ever used it when the mirror was down?Antal wrote: BUT:
I got dead pixel since!
Altough I did laser only when mirror were down.
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:28 am
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Question Abought UV light.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4072
- Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:05 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: A cuckoo wasp
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3030
Nice shot! It is a Chrysis sp., but not C. angolensis , that is a much bigger and stockier animal, with shiny integument and a dark blue last tergite. This is some other species, perhaps a C. pattoni male, but ID'ing these wasps from pictures are next to impossible, there's too many similar species....