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This is a technique pioneered by Matt Molloy (www.flickr.com/photos/matt_molloy) whereby you take a long series of long exposure photos (these are around 15 seconds) and then layer them in photoshop using "lighten only". The result is a still life time lapse of the development of the clouds like brush strokes over the sky. I have used over 80 photos for this one, so patience is a virtue with this technique! This is perhaps my fifth real attempt at this and the first one I have been really happy with. The view is from the deck of the house Villa Artemis in Metamorfosi, Trizina, Greece.
185 photos merged into one image using the lighten layer-blending mode in photoshop. I processed the first 26 photos with the comets action that is part of this script package advancedstackerplus.com. I did that to make a subtle fade in effect. Then I processed the rest with the lighten mode. This was one of those sunsets that caught me off guard, so I set up in my backyard.
Pleurothallis allenii is native to Panama.
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263 photos merged into one image. Here's a tutorial about how I made this image. 500px.com/blog/1051/tutorial-time-stack?page=1
I wish I had set up a little earlier, so the lines made by the clouds went all the way to the horizon. I still like the way it turned out, I just hope the ice is sturdy enough for me to try this again.
I posted some of these images over a year ago, but I didn't have the resources to validate my observations. I noticed that the scales of pachyrrhynchus resemble the pristine crystalline structure of SiO2 H2O. That is Opal! In other words, quartz with components of water that allow light to reflect and refract various colors if the molecules are arranged in a certain way.
Is there any chance that someone has analyzed the chemical composition on the scales of this weevil? I would be awfully curious to know. FYI: I used higher powered optics to take the first shot shown above. Take a a look at the scales up close!
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Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
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Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
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Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
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Annette Evans Ph.D. Student at the University of Connecticut
annette@macroscopicsolutions.com
Had a little fun with the macro lens and in-camera photo stacking. The sphere is reflected in a glass creating the interesting background.
Very oxidized old stuff found in a forgotten box.
The time is passing and everything flows.
A focus stack of 25 shots with a Canon FD 50 old objective, mounted inverted on my Canon 200D.
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Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
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Lots of people have made the connection between this time stacking technique and the Impressionism art movement. One of the more famous Impressionists (the name of the art movement apparently came from the title of one of his paintings) is Claude Monet. He did a series of water lily paintings, and some of the elements in this image remind me of that series. (not just the obvious fact that are water lilies, but also the colours and movement) It wasn't intentional, but I think I'll go back here with that intention, and try to capture something a little closer to Monet's works.
I made this time stack by combining 381 photos into one image.
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Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
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Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
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annette@macroscopicsolutions.com
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Three individuals of Macroscopic Solutions, LLC captured the images in this database collaboratively.
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Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
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Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
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I took this photo with CanonEOS40D photocamera, extention tubes + CanonEF100mmMacroUSM lens + Kenko close up filter. I took this shot at 26-12-2009. I like these spiders because they have very interesting colours. This spider hairstyle is realy amazing, like after electric shock. ;) Focus manualy stacked from 3 photos.
Please have a view of full size... Thanks :)
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is a fantastic place for viewing stars. Photo: Milky Way Galaxy over Lake Michigan. Hog Island State Forest Campground at Lake Michigan. Photo stacking via DeepSkyStacker.
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Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
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Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
daniel@macroscopicsolutions.com
Annette Evans Ph.D. Student at the University of Connecticut
annette@macroscopicsolutions.com
I've done a lot of time stacks that have water in them, and I love the way it reflects the sky, but the water is rarely ever this still. (because I'm usually shooting Lake Ontario, which is almost never calm in my area) This small pond made the perfect mirror to reflect the sky. I made this by merging 220 photos into one image with the lighten layer-blending mode in photoshop. I used a script from advancedstackerplus.com to automate the process while I surfed through the seemingly infinite world wide web of weird and wonderful human contributions.
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Photography information: All of the images in this database were captured with the Macropod.
The Macropod is a rigid, portable photomacrography system, which allows the user to make razor sharp, fully focused photographs of small sized specimens at 18 to 26-megapixel resolution. It overcomes the extreme Depth of Field (DOF) limitations inherent in optics designed to image smaller specimens. Normally, lenses designed for macro will only render a very small fraction of the depth of targeted specimen in sharp focus at any one exposure. The Macropod allows the user to select and make multiple exposures in precise increments along the Z-axis (depth) such that each exposure’s area of sharp focus overlaps with the previous and next exposure. These source images are then transferred to a computer and merged by an image-stacking program. Zerene Stacker is used to find and stitch together only the focused pixels from each exposure into one image. The Macropod integrates industry-leading components in a novel and elegant way to achieve these results.
Contact information:
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724 825 9426
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Here is a lovely black and red seed. Photographed on the cut tip of a pin. Sadly, I do not have a record of the seed's name, so any help with this distinct specimen would be appreciated. This seed came from a 100 year old collection of seeds used as reference by the old Bureau of Biological Survey. They would dissect vertebrate stomachs and then determine what they ate by identifying the seeds there in...thus the need for the seed collection. Am going through the unprocessed specimens while we get our new set up running. This dates to 2014.
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Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know
" Ode on a Grecian Urn"
John Keats
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:www.extreme-macro.co.uk/
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland: bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Read this!!!
The blister beetles exude cantharidin, which is a blistering agent used to impress a female of their own species who then mates with them, whereupon most of the cantharidin is transfered to the female in the form of a sperm packet. The eggs the female subsequently lays are coated with cantharidin to protect them from being eaten before they hatch.
Cantharidin is used by humans to manufacture the notorious date rape drug, Spanish Fly…”
Spanish Fly is an aphrodisiac that you've probably heard of from frat house sex comedies of the 1980s. Supposedly it could be slipped into a drink to make ladies hot. It turns out it is not just a legend. This aphrodisiac does exist, but it only makes gentlemen (physically) hot. And it would also probably kill them.
The weirdest thing about spanish fly is that it actually exists. Even the name isn't entirely wrong, since it comes from a group of insects whose most well-known subspecies is called spanish flies. More generally they're called meloid beetles, or blister beetles. Wherever they are found they're used, occasionally, as aphrodisiacs. The key element to them is a chemical called cantharidin.
Cantharidin makes spanish fly metaphorically apt as an aphrodisiac, as well as practically possible. Cantharidin is why meloid beetles are also called blister beetles. It can blister skin, and is a harsh poison if ingested.
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Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
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Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
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340 photos of myself drumming, merged into one image. I think the interval between shots was 1 second. I also cranked up the iso to get a quicker shutter speed. (1/5 of a second)
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Three individuals of Macroscopic Solutions, LLC captured the images in this database collaboratively.
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Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
mark@macroscopicsolutions.com
Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
daniel@macroscopicsolutions.com
Annette Evans Ph.D. Student at the University of Connecticut
annette@macroscopicsolutions.com
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Photography information:
The images in this database were captured using the Macropod by Macroscopic Solutions.
The Macropod is a 3D, rigid, portable photomacrography system that is paired with the Canon 6D, MP-E 65 mm 1-5x or 100 mm lenses.
Images between 7.5x and 50x magnifications are achieved by replacing the MP-E 65 MM 1-5x (and various ext. tubes) with a Nikon BD Plan 40 Objective, chipped adapter and series of M42 extension tubes and adapters.
Three individuals of Macroscopic Solutions captured the images in this database collaboratively.
Contact information:
Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
mark@macroscopicsolutions.com
Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
daniel@macroscopicsolutions.com
Annette Evans Ph.D. Student at the University of Connecticut
annette@macroscopicsolutions.com
You can download or view Macroscopic Solutions’ images in more detail by selecting any image and clicking the downward facing arrow in the lower-right corner of the image display screen.
Three individuals of Macroscopic Solutions, LLC captured the images in this database collaboratively.
Contact information:
Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist
mark@macroscopicsolutions.com
Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
daniel@macroscopicsolutions.com
Annette Evans Ph.D. Student at the University of Connecticut
annette@macroscopicsolutions.com