The final glow worm photo
Nov 10, 2014 00:53:59 #
This HDR acquisition took over three minutes for the three bracketed exposures in my Canon 70D with the MPE 65 mm lens. I used a LED lantern for supplemental light. It looks a bit better after adjusting the contrast and brightness and doing a bit of cropping, but I think I'm just at the limits of what my hardware can do. Or perhaps what I can do with my hardware. Stumbling around in the dark looking for tiny glowing bugs. I fully expect the nice young men in their clean white coats and butterfly nets to come collect me soon!
Nov 10, 2014 00:56:59 #
I believe you have captured decent subject detail, AND emphasized the "glow". I just wish that the background was not so dark.
I am going to play with the download.
I am going to play with the download.
Nov 10, 2014 01:00:30 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Please do. That is why I selected "Store original". Let me know what you figure out. This is a tricky one for me, but if it were easy I would have moved on to something else by now.I am going to play with the download.
Nov 10, 2014 02:01:48 #
Quite the worm! I was once upon a time collecting lightning bugs with some little friends... spotted one in the grass, scooped it up gently, tried to deposit it in my jar --- and it hung onto my finger. Oooooooh, shiver me timbers, it was a glow worm. I'd never seen one before.
Give me credit, though; I didn't scream. I shouted, "I found a glow worm! I found a glow worm!!!" -- whereupon all the kiddos immediately went to hunting for glow worms, and I won the firefly competition. :lol:
Ve haff our vays!
Give me credit, though; I didn't scream. I shouted, "I found a glow worm! I found a glow worm!!!" -- whereupon all the kiddos immediately went to hunting for glow worms, and I won the firefly competition. :lol:
Ve haff our vays!
Nov 10, 2014 02:48:19 #
pianist38 wrote:
Here in Humboldt County, California we do not have "Lightening Bugs"per se`, but on dark damp (damp seems to be essential) we have these little critters. The adult males are regular looking little beetles with ferny antennae, but do not glow. The larvae and adult females are these little glow worms and do indeed glow. The females never leave the "larvae form" stage. You go looking for them in the deep woods when it's really dark and damp. Once your eyes are dark adapted they look like tiny green LEDs. They hunt a local native snail called a "Ram's horn snail." So, you go stumbling around in the dark through the woods looking for teensy weensy glowing bugs.Quite the worm! I was once upon a time collecting lightning bugs with some little friends... spotted one in the grass, scooped it up gently, tried to deposit it in my jar --- and it hung onto my finger. Oooooooh, shiver me timbers, it was a glow worm. I'd never seen one before.
Nov 10, 2014 03:15:20 #
Your effort and persistence has been rewarded with a much improved image. I agree, I think the men in white coats will get all of us macro nuts sooner or later. I often get strange looks when I am knelt on the ground peering at something that, to a bystander, appears not to be there.
Nov 11, 2014 20:21:10 #
Process the RAWs first to add fill light - -
THEN re-combine in HDR such as Photomatix to produce the final
THEN re-combine in HDR such as Photomatix to produce the final
Nov 11, 2014 21:08:12 #
Merlin1300 wrote:
Thanks for the idea. On my next "shoot" with them I'll try to acquire a set of exposure bracketed shots to do that. This was done with the "in camera" HDR setting which gives you little opportunity to do much with it. It is JPEG only, and takes a series of 3 photos. I am afraid since it took well over a minute to complete that automated set of photos much more will allow too much opportunity for motion. These little critters are unpredictable, getting up walking off the set with little provocation. Nice thing about digital, trying only costs you the time to try.Process the RAWs first to add fill light - - THEN re-combine in HDR such as Photomatix to produce the final
Nov 11, 2014 21:17:22 #
RedAdmiral wrote:
Not bad !! I thought maybe you'd done it in post using the JPGs.On my next "shoot" with them I'll try to acquire a set of exposure bracketed shots to do that. These little critters are unpredictable, getting up walking off the set with little provocation
How much did you have to pay the little worm to hold still for that long ?? :lol: :lol:
Nov 11, 2014 21:27:32 #
Merlin1300 wrote:
I threatened it with a promise to kill off all the snails in my back yard!Not bad !! I thought maybe you'd done it in post using the JPGs. How much did you have to pay the little worm to hold still for that long ??
Nov 11, 2014 21:40:13 #
RedAdmiral wrote:
IF I were a Glow Worm, I'd be quaking in my boots - - all 20 of them !!I threatened it with a promise to kill off all the snails in my back yard!
Nov 11, 2014 22:11:26 #
Nov 11, 2014 23:50:11 #
Merlin1300 wrote:
Snails are what this species is adapted for. The attached photo is one of 3 I've seen in over a hundred encounters with the glow worms. that isn't exactly a party lantern glowing in the snail's shell.IF I were a Glow Worm, I'd be quaking in my boots - - all 20 of them !!
Nov 12, 2014 03:37:23 #
RedAdmiral wrote:
To the Glow worms, I think it is :wink: :D that isn't exactly a party lantern glowing in the snail's shell.
Nice work :thumbup:
Nov 12, 2014 19:47:30 #
RedAdmiral wrote:
?? Are the worms using it as their home? I don't see the snail in there ?Snails are what this species is adapted for. That isn't exactly a party lantern glowing in the snail's shell.
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