Eddie The Bugman
~Extreme Allacma fusca portrait~
I spent the afternoon looking for invertebrates in local woodland today, so I couldn't resist a few Allacma fusca portraits whilst they are still plentiful. This one is a 12 image handheld focus stack using my MP-E at full magnification on 72mm of extension tubes and my 1.4x teleconverter using an F/5.0 aperture. I had placed the stick this guy was on onto a fallen tree and I used a blue fake flower as a background. This Springtail was about 2mm in length :o)
I find these guys will happily stay put for a focus stack, especially if you get the flash power down, which at this magnification is no easy task, I had to use an ISO of 400, it didn't help being in woodland as well, with all the leaves still on not much light gets through :o)
Well it seems that Flickr is playing up still, having problems uploading, so I hope this works :o)
Hope everyone has a great Sunday, sounds like it will be a wet one though :o)
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~Extreme Allacma fusca portrait~
I spent the afternoon looking for invertebrates in local woodland today, so I couldn't resist a few Allacma fusca portraits whilst they are still plentiful. This one is a 12 image handheld focus stack using my MP-E at full magnification on 72mm of extension tubes and my 1.4x teleconverter using an F/5.0 aperture. I had placed the stick this guy was on onto a fallen tree and I used a blue fake flower as a background. This Springtail was about 2mm in length :o)
I find these guys will happily stay put for a focus stack, especially if you get the flash power down, which at this magnification is no easy task, I had to use an ISO of 400, it didn't help being in woodland as well, with all the leaves still on not much light gets through :o)
Well it seems that Flickr is playing up still, having problems uploading, so I hope this works :o)
Hope everyone has a great Sunday, sounds like it will be a wet one though :o)
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