March Fly (Bibionidae)

NikonUser · Post by **NikonUser** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:59 am

Male March Fly (Bibionidae) that flies in the Fall (go figure). Length 8mm.
Flies are pure dust magnets; eye was cleaned under a 'scope and must have picked up dust between 'scope and camera.
I shoot everything in Adobe RGB, didn't appreciate that this bug is simply black.
Eye photo with x10 microscope objective on bellows; 33 exposurse @0.02mm; about a 40% crop of full frame (of antenna, head, part of thorax).

EDIT: title changed

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:49 am

Now I really like that in mono! Makes it look almost like something from the millitary!

NikonUser · Post by **NikonUser** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:26 am

Cyclops wrote:Now I really like that in mono!

Actually it's in full RGB

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:57 am

indeed, the extremities of the legs are orange

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:00 pm

Ah,i can't see that much detail as I'm viewing the pics on my cell phone,unless i download and zoom in. That said, although technically it is an RGB image it is also very monochromatic,like photographing trees in the snow in winter.

acerola · Post by **acerola** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:32 am

Wow, I like the eye shot very much. It somehow a little bit different from some of the other pictures it is almost touchable.