Looking for a hobby after getting unemployed three years ago I stumbled upon this site. Finding some material in tnriftstores and experimenting with it, this is the first stack I'm happy with. Maybe a little too dark but I liked the atmosphere.
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My first successful stack
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Re: My first successful stack
Nice atmospherics! I like the dark. I'm trying to do something similar in my efforts. Anyhow, I'm an insect dilettante, i.e., I know just enough to be dangerous, but I think this creature may be in the Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles). I can't go any further with confidence. How did you find it? The few I've stumbled across were victims in the hummingbird feeder and were only a millimeter or two in size. I don't think I've ever stumbled on one on the hoof.JoblessJoe wrote:Looking for a hobby after getting unemployed three years ago I stumbled upon this site. Finding some material in tnriftstores and experimenting with it, this is the first stack I'm happy with. Maybe a little too dark but I liked the atmosphere.
Be gentle on me.
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Joe,
I see that you've cross-posted the same material in both "Technical and Studio Photography" and "Beginners Macro". No worries, but please don't use cross-posting on this site -- it mostly adds confusion, not value.
I had already replied to your other post, at https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... hp?t=40268 .
But to put the discussion together in one place, I'll move that reply to this thread and lock the other one. Again, no worries.
Sulafat, yes, definitely Curculionidae. In my area, black snout beetles that look a lot like this are commonly found, up to 10 mm or so. The larvae of ours are white grubs that are a serious pest of strawberry roots. Related species tackle other plants, such as grape roots. Fortunately ours do not, witness the very happy grapes right on the edge of the strawberry bed that we eventually gave up on.
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I see that you've cross-posted the same material in both "Technical and Studio Photography" and "Beginners Macro". No worries, but please don't use cross-posting on this site -- it mostly adds confusion, not value.
I had already replied to your other post, at https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... hp?t=40268 .
But to put the discussion together in one place, I'll move that reply to this thread and lock the other one. Again, no worries.
Sulafat, yes, definitely Curculionidae. In my area, black snout beetles that look a lot like this are commonly found, up to 10 mm or so. The larvae of ours are white grubs that are a serious pest of strawberry roots. Related species tackle other plants, such as grape roots. Fortunately ours do not, witness the very happy grapes right on the edge of the strawberry bed that we eventually gave up on.
--Rik
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Here is my earlier reply, moved from the other thread.
Joe, welcome aboard!
This image looks like a promising start.
The subject is a snout beetle, but even knowing the structure of the beast, I was having some trouble making sense of what I was seeing.
Then I realized the problem: both antennae are showing a large amount of what we call the "transparent foreground" effect.
Transparent foreground is a stacking artifact which occurs because (1) the lens can "look around" foreground structures to see focused detail in the background, and then (2) stacking software shows some of the background detail mixed in with what should be opaque foreground, giving the appearance that the foreground structure is partially transparent.
You can read more about the cause and what to do about it, at https://zerenesystems.com/cms/stacker/d ... foreground .
I hope this helps!
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