Crane fly haltere
May 10, 2015 23:43:46 #
A ventral view of the left haltere. Those hairs on it are pretty small!
Nikon D750 with a 8x Zeiss microscope objective mounted in front of a Nikkor 105mmG macro lens, 2 SB-R200 speedlights.
Helicon remote auto-focus stacked. A 36-image stack, using Zerene. Best viewed on download.
Nikon D750 with a 8x Zeiss microscope objective mounted in front of a Nikkor 105mmG macro lens, 2 SB-R200 speedlights.
Helicon remote auto-focus stacked. A 36-image stack, using Zerene. Best viewed on download.
May 11, 2015 01:53:07 #
May 11, 2015 05:49:48 #
May 11, 2015 09:29:30 #
May 11, 2015 09:37:12 #
May 11, 2015 09:40:53 #
nanaval wrote:
Yes it is. Compliments to the OPGreat picture.. :thumbup:
May 11, 2015 09:42:58 #
Very nicely done. I'm just getting into using the microscope objectives, so I'm trying to learn from others. Do you recall what aperture was used & the step size? Also, what is the magnification with your set-up? Thanks for the help.
May 11, 2015 10:17:40 #
May 11, 2015 10:44:16 #
Thanks all!
It was a fun experiment. This is a lot easier than taking a good live shot as everything is under control and time is not a factor. Spending a hour or so setting this up makes me appreciate all the more the fantastic work I see on this forum. Live shots for me are still hit or miss & mostly miss, either background, framing, or focus.
nanaval: Yes the fly was dead. No flies were harmed during the shooting of this picture? Well, no.
naturepics43: Aperture was f10 to keep the number of steps down. I picked a close focal point & then a far, and let Helicon chose the number of steps. I have no idea what the sizes are. Actually, I started 10 frames OOF on the near end, which I discarded before stacking, because I ran two stacks and both were slightly OOF at the near end. It was so much of a hassle to set each shot up I decided to err conservatively. Lighting was trail & error determined by test shots. Magnification as shot about 9X. I'm not sure what the crop brings it up to.
It was a fun experiment. This is a lot easier than taking a good live shot as everything is under control and time is not a factor. Spending a hour or so setting this up makes me appreciate all the more the fantastic work I see on this forum. Live shots for me are still hit or miss & mostly miss, either background, framing, or focus.
nanaval: Yes the fly was dead. No flies were harmed during the shooting of this picture? Well, no.
naturepics43: Aperture was f10 to keep the number of steps down. I picked a close focal point & then a far, and let Helicon chose the number of steps. I have no idea what the sizes are. Actually, I started 10 frames OOF on the near end, which I discarded before stacking, because I ran two stacks and both were slightly OOF at the near end. It was so much of a hassle to set each shot up I decided to err conservatively. Lighting was trail & error determined by test shots. Magnification as shot about 9X. I'm not sure what the crop brings it up to.
May 11, 2015 10:48:12 #
May 12, 2015 17:06:56 #
May 12, 2015 22:04:36 #
Thanks for the info. Trying to gather all the technical stuff I can find.
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