Vespid wasp

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 10:33 am

Vespid wasp Polistes annularis

Len Willan · Post by **Len Willan** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:57 pm

Thank you Michael, Congratulations, and for sharing your work,

This illustrates the New Era of Taxanomic detailing, along with your Black Carpenter Ant
https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... hp?t=41787
Gone are the days of using such tedious equipment as microscope drawing tubes,

Looking forward to seeing how you produced such lighting.
Vivid Insect ”Mugshots” like these certainly can show fine details.
Len

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Thu Jun 04, 2020 1:28 pm

Thanks, Len. The lighting is a Sunpack ringlight with a dish-shaped dome, which provides wrap-around light. The warm highlights on the top surfaces are from a halogen goose neck desk lamp that I have been using as a modeling light. I noticed last year that if I slowed the shutter speed in the computer camera control, I could get these warm highlights.

Mike

Len Willan · Post by **Len Willan** » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:24 pm

Michael,
Thanks for the information on your diffusing dome.
I will try and get my mind around making a copy, I am referring to your descriptions given here,

The dome provides soft wrap-around light I am able to shoot between f8 and f11, so I get to use the sweet spot in the lens resolution and pick up some depth of field at the same time, thereby enhancing the sharpness of the stack.
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art ... stack.html

Ring light with a dome diffuser for wrap-around lighting and the 80mm Olympus OM bellows macro lens.
https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... 0cf944ebd3