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Aspidimorpha rainoni, a new specie from Benin.
This photography was used to describe this beautiful tortoise beetle, with the different known paratypes.
(Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae)
Studio work, stacking made of 70 images assembled using Zerene Stacker (Pmax & Dmap). Post production using Adobe Photoshop CS6 and LR.
Canon 600D. Schneider Kreuznach Componon S 50mm, ISO-100, f2.8 1/13 sec. 4 daylight LED, diffused with a white plastic cup.
Magnification : 2,6:1
Focus stack-images taken with Fuji GFX 50s on Cambo Actus view camera with Rodenstock 105mm lens at f5_6 ISO 100 2.6 sec with tilt up 9 degrees.
60mm Macro lens, Focus merged in Affinity photo V2. 13 images, manual setting on camera, Manual focus
Actual size of large seed is 11mm
Merger of focus-stacked 70 images in Helicon Focus. Processed in Photoshop and DxO Nik Color Efex 4.
Focus-stack of 101 images captured in Helicon Remote and merged in Helcon Focus. Processed in Adobe Lightroom Classic and ON1 Photo Raw 2018 Effects (Dynamic Contrast and Tone Enhancer)
Identification
Coarse crystals: Sea salt
Fine granular mound: Table salt
How to tell (visual cues)
Sea salt (left / larger crystals)
Irregular, jagged shapes
Larger particle size
More variation in translucency and edges
Formed by evaporation → less processed, so structure varies
Table salt (mound / fine grains)
Very small, uniform cubic crystals
Packs densely into a smooth-looking mound
Highly refined and consistent grain size
Description
Low-angle macro of two salt types interacting:
A dense mound of fine table salt creates a smooth, almost powder-like texture.
Surrounding it, coarse sea salt crystals scatter irregularly, catching light with harder highlights.
The contrast reads like a micro landscape: a dune (table salt) surrounded by crystalline debris (sea salt).
Lighting emphasizes:
specular highlights on coarse crystals
softer, granular sheen on the fine salt
What makes this work visually
Scale illusion: looks like terrain or snowfield
Shape contrast: cubic micro-grains vs fractured macro-crystals
Density contrast: packed vs scattered
Optical contrast: matte vs sparkle
This is a stacked image. There were 1290 images in the stack.
A fire follower, this was seen the spring following the Park Hill Fire of 2015,
Eastern San Luis Obispo Co., California
Another of my Lockdowm Garden Macro shots. An ant tends a herd of black aphids on a weed. focus stacked from 5 images
#macro #ant #insect #focusstack #olympus #garden #photography
Ips amitinus (female ?)
Body length : 5.2 mm
20.VII.2021
Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Arc 2000, Savoie, France
Found within star shaped galleries on Pinus sp.
- Focus stack of 71-100 images
- Microscope objectives (Nikon M Plan 10x 160/0.25 + Cheap Chinese Plan 4x 160/0.17)
- Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
NB : the right anterior tarsus was missing and has been cloned from the left one