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Dia de Pikachutos posted:Holy poo poo, somehow I managed to swing a HM in the Nice! What is that thing? It sort of reminds me of looking through a petrographic microscope.
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Cogratulations! That shot is great, definitely well-earned.
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Some early spring macros before the weather went cold again Ladybird new diffuser by Aves Lux, on Flickr  Some sort of fly by Aves Lux, on Flickr
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accipter posted:Nice! What is that thing? It sort of reminds me of looking through a petrographic microscope. It's amino acid crystals in compensated polarised light, so it's pretty much exactly that! Scarodactyl posted:Cogratulations! That shot is great, definitely well-earned. 
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 First picture I've taken that crossed the line from "cool" to "something I'm really happy about". Waited about an hour for the little guy to crawl out of my car door and sit somewhere visible for more than five seconds. Edit: apparently I don't know how to embed image links on mobile.
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thocan posted:
Nice work, jumpers that live in cars can sometimes get dehydrated you could try a small spray bottle of water somewhere and they might take a drink for you.
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These are all 1:1 and edited for sharing to instagram, I'm too lazy to upload better versions that would look right at this size. Still felt like sharing since the thread is alive again with spring here. In the 2nd one you can see my diffuser+hand holding my camera in it's eyes. Orb Weaver on Web by Kevin Long, on Flickr Brown Jumper 4_6_20 by Kevin Long, on Flickr Jumper on Blue by Kevin Long, on Flickr
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Cool. I caught this neat little dude a couple days ago. 
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joat mon posted:Cool. Hypsosinga Rubens, I think? They're very cool looking, haven't found one in a while. Nice shot!
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Hypsosinga Rubens, I think? They're very cool looking, haven't found one in a while. Nice shot! That's what I think for ID, as well. It's the first one I've seen. It's a nice start to the season!
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joat mon posted:That's what I think for ID, as well. It's the first one I've seen. It's a nice start to the season! Spider season isn't for another 6 months in California!
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We caught some tadpoles in a pond and are going to raise them. They're at the stage where they have the cool Spiral guts, anyone have creative solutions for how to get good macros of them?
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Fingers McLongDong posted:We caught some tadpoles in a pond and are going to raise them. They're at the stage where they have the cool Spiral guts, anyone have creative solutions for how to get good macros of them? 1) Put them in a 1/2 inch to inch of water in a 10 gallon aquarium, rest each short edge of the aquarium on a (different) chair, lie under the aquarium and shoot from below. 2) Put 2-3 inches of water in a container and put a section of mirror in the bottom of the container, shoot a little off vertical so you can get top and bottom in the same shot (e: no, I think focus won't work for top and bottom at the same time) joat mon fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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More from the Laowa 2.5 -5x super macro 
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Two different tired bees on two different days. Tired Bee Closeup by Kevin Long, on Flickr Cold Honeybee by Kevin Long, on Flickr
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Two different tired bees on two different days. very nice work!
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This is not an attempt at a cool picture, instead I am trying to identify these.  If it helps, this is in SoCal. Are these caterpillar bros or should I kill them with fire?
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CritterQuest can help but I too hate it when my pubes and greek yogurt covered rasins supply gets infested.
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Megabound posted:CritterQuest can help but I too hate it when my pubes and greek yogurt covered rasins supply gets infested. Lol, and thanks.
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theHUNGERian posted:This is not an attempt at a cool picture, instead I am trying to identify these. Maybe ermine moths based on this? https://www.allaboutworms.com/patches-of-worms-found-in-new-hampshire-house-are-american-ermine-moth-larvae
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Creeping on bees at 1X, first day I've seen them out. I need to upgrade my flash setup and stop trying handhold shots on windy days.
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Tochiazuma posted:Maybe ermine moths based on this? Critterquest suggested "young larvae of the fall armyworm". The moths certainly look familiar. Completely different subject:  
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It's warmed up a lot here, so I'm happy to have a lot more subjects to shoot. Really neat caterpillar, a Ceratonyx satanaria (satanaria because it's got satan-like horns). The camouflage on this guy is amazing. It really looks like a twig with little leaf buds, and scars of branches broken off.  Spanworm (Ceratonyx satanaria) Spanworm (Ceratonyx satanaria)  Spanworm (Ceratonyx satanaria) A jewel bug. Really pretty. Probably a tree killer though.  Buprestis salisburyensis? Random beetle with lamellate antennae.  Uknown beetle with lamellate antennaeAn assassin bug feeding on a small native bee.  Zelus luridus(?) feeding on beeA cicada that failed it's ecdysis (didn't emerge from the larval form successfully).  Cicada that failed ecdysisOn the next plant I saw one that was in good shape.  Cicada An ant.  Ant
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How do people stabilize plants and branches from being moved by the wind when taking photos?
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accipter posted:How do people stabilize plants and branches from being moved by the wind when taking photos? Hand contortions. With your left hand, pinch the stem of the branch. Flex your left wrist in toward the center of your body. Holding the camera in your right hand, rest your lens on your left wrist (or left hand near your thumb). Now you have the camera stabilized on two points, with a rigid contact to the stem that your subject is on. This is the secret. Of course you need a macro lens with a compatible focusing distance (not a 180mm macro for example). If you are doing natural light work with a tripod, a good hardware solution is to use plamps. They are like a flexible arm with a clamp on one side that grips your tripod, and the other end has a small alligator clip type clamp for your twig/diffuser/background. I have some plamps but mostly use the wrist technique because I’m not patient enough.
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Graniteman posted:Hand contortions. Thanks for both of those suggestions. Any recommended plamps? Wimberley Plamp II comes up on BH Photo.
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Finally some bugs to photograph 14-Spot Ladybird munches by Aves Lux, on Flickr  Spider Reach by Aves Lux, on Flickr  It's a fly eat fly world by Aves Lux, on Flickr
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accipter posted:Thanks for both of those suggestions. Any recommended plamps? Wimberley Plamp II comes up on BH Photo. Yep, that's the one. jarlywarly posted:Finally some bugs to photograph Nice shots! Is the fly focus stack shot handheld? I need to try that more often. A recent shot of mine: face of a crane fly at about 3:1.  Crane Fly
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Thanks, that's not a stack it's a single frame at f/11. That crane fly is really nice, love the proboscis detail and anything at 3x is a tough shot. jarlywarly fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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jarlywarly posted:Thanks, that's not a stack it's a single frame at f/11. Huh! The left fly legs are blurred in front of the second flys leg in focus so I thought it was a focus stack artifact but I see now the legs just rise toward the camera rather than recede toward the right fly. It looks like a ton of DOF, so nice getting that focus plane in the sweet spot.
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This is going to sound really dumb but I started editing my photos on my wife's iPad pro instead of my dumpy old laptop and it's like I'm seeing my own photos for the first time. I didn't realize how poo poo my laptop screen really was. Anyway I'm still going to mash them up and put them on IG. Here's a very tired (mason?) bee on my finger.  IMG-3131 by Kevin Long, on Flickr
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Graniteman posted:Huh! The left fly legs are blurred in front of the second flys leg in focus so I thought it was a focus stack artifact but I see now the legs just rise toward the camera rather than recede toward the right fly. It looks like a ton of DOF, so nice getting that focus plane in the sweet spot. Yeah the bigger fly has the prey flies abdomen in between it's forelegs, there's a lot of fly legs intermeshed so it gets confusing to look at. I think that is mason or a leafcutter bee Fingers.
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My hands are shaky because of a medicine side effect, but at least I can still do controlled environment stuff.
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Had a nice cool morning after a rain and got some shots of a docile dragonfly and dauber wasp I'm happy with. blue metallic mud dauber (Chalybion californicum)  blue metallic mud dauber (Chalybion californicum)  Thorey's Grayback Dragonfly (Tachopteryx thoreyi)  Thorey's Grayback Dragonfly (Tachopteryx thoreyi)
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I just got back from a trip to NY and finally had a chance to try out my Kubotek line scan lens in the field. I still have very little idea what I'm doing--turns out non-studio macro is pretty different from working on a microscope, who'd have thought. Still had a lot of fun with it anyway. The long-legged flies and dragonflies decided to be unusually cooperative. This one was sort of stacked, or at least clumsily combined from two photos.  long legged fly on raspberry by Stephen Challener, on Flickr green dragonfly by Stephen Challener, on Flickr brown dragonfly face by Stephen Challener, on FlickrThese damselflies were particularly fun to watch in motion--the spot on their tail almost looks fluorescent, and in the shadows they look like a pair of spots gliding through the air.  damselfly on knotweed by Stephen Challener, on Flickr
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