Springtail
I had time for a quick springtail hunt this morning, and found this tiny (less than 1mm) and cute Katiannidae (more specifically, a male Katiannidae Gen1 nov sp nov; many thanks to Frans Janssens for the information) on my compost bin. I took this single image at about 3x magnification using my MP-E 65mm lens, with some `redirected' on-camera flash (I still need to work on that!). The image was still quite underexposed (so needed some twiddling), was taken at high ISO, and is a large crop, so it's a bit noisy. Ideally, I need to sort my flash set-up out, and it'd be great to stack these, but they always seem to be constantly on the move.
Springtail
I had time for a quick springtail hunt this morning, and found this tiny (less than 1mm) and cute Katiannidae (more specifically, a male Katiannidae Gen1 nov sp nov; many thanks to Frans Janssens for the information) on my compost bin. I took this single image at about 3x magnification using my MP-E 65mm lens, with some `redirected' on-camera flash (I still need to work on that!). The image was still quite underexposed (so needed some twiddling), was taken at high ISO, and is a large crop, so it's a bit noisy. Ideally, I need to sort my flash set-up out, and it'd be great to stack these, but they always seem to be constantly on the move.