Focused Stacked Image of a Green Stink Bug
Nov 18, 2023 17:39:49 #
This is a focused stacked image of a green stink bug that has been in my collection for over two years now and appears to be holding up well.
This session was taken with a 50mm f/2.8 Schneider-Kreuznach enlarger lens mounted on bellows with constant LED soft-panel illumination. There were 137 images taken in the stack which were processed in Zerene Stacker to produce the final image posted.
The green stinkbug is considered to be a destructive pest because it has a broad range of plants that it feeds on. They can often be found sucking away on black cherry and elderberry, flowering dogwood, evergreen blackberry, basswood, and pine trees. They also attack a large number of important economic crops, including apples, apricots, asparagus, beans, cherries, corn, cotton, eggplant, peach, pear, peas, soybean, tobacco, and tomato. Stinkbugs account for millions of dollars in economic food crop losses across the country.
This session was taken with a 50mm f/2.8 Schneider-Kreuznach enlarger lens mounted on bellows with constant LED soft-panel illumination. There were 137 images taken in the stack which were processed in Zerene Stacker to produce the final image posted.
The green stinkbug is considered to be a destructive pest because it has a broad range of plants that it feeds on. They can often be found sucking away on black cherry and elderberry, flowering dogwood, evergreen blackberry, basswood, and pine trees. They also attack a large number of important economic crops, including apples, apricots, asparagus, beans, cherries, corn, cotton, eggplant, peach, pear, peas, soybean, tobacco, and tomato. Stinkbugs account for millions of dollars in economic food crop losses across the country.
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Nov 19, 2023 06:03:45 #
"mounted on bellows with constant LED soft-panel illumination."
The old mixed with the new... The Bellows was mention in Genesis, God used it on Sunday to document his work on the other 6. LEDs are amazing Transistors that give off light vs Tungsten filaments that are so hot they fry your insect subjects.
Your last paragraph lacks the last sentence ... "So, do not feel guilty when you squash one."
I am always amazed with your work. "Jam up and jelly tight" as the song goes.
I have the parts needed to make a microscope/camera hybrid ... and have found tech info that I need for a DIY project. I have another 10# to loose to be a trim 45 years old again and find that DIY projects are a great weight loss tool. For the others out there who want the capability ... this is one good educational tech-link. Others would be the info you have given us in the past.
http://extreme-macro.co.uk/microscope-objectives/
Forever and again thank you Sippy for making that dull 10th grade biology class interesting. Shark-Week should be replace with Bug-Week... I have only known one person bitten by a shark [really] but we have all been bitten by insects and many die each year from their bio-infested venom.
The old mixed with the new... The Bellows was mention in Genesis, God used it on Sunday to document his work on the other 6. LEDs are amazing Transistors that give off light vs Tungsten filaments that are so hot they fry your insect subjects.
Your last paragraph lacks the last sentence ... "So, do not feel guilty when you squash one."
I am always amazed with your work. "Jam up and jelly tight" as the song goes.
I have the parts needed to make a microscope/camera hybrid ... and have found tech info that I need for a DIY project. I have another 10# to loose to be a trim 45 years old again and find that DIY projects are a great weight loss tool. For the others out there who want the capability ... this is one good educational tech-link. Others would be the info you have given us in the past.
http://extreme-macro.co.uk/microscope-objectives/
Forever and again thank you Sippy for making that dull 10th grade biology class interesting. Shark-Week should be replace with Bug-Week... I have only known one person bitten by a shark [really] but we have all been bitten by insects and many die each year from their bio-infested venom.
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Nov 19, 2023 07:07:32 #
I am not sure if that is a photo of a Martian or the space ship it arrived in but the photo is spectacular. Another one of your best.
Dennis
Dennis
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Nov 19, 2023 09:10:14 #
You make these alien looking bugs somehow colorfully attractive. The ones around my place have the appearance of being processed by a flat iron.
Nov 19, 2023 09:47:18 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a focused stacked image of a green stink b... (show quote)
One fantabulous looking critter, Gary. S/He looks like a stealth bomber coming in for a landing.
Nov 19, 2023 11:22:44 #
raymondh wrote:
You make these alien looking bugs somehow colorfully attractive. The ones around my place have the appearance of being processed by a flat iron.
Couldn’t agree with you more! No one does it better than Gary.
But I’m not giving up my swatter and rolled up newspaper, or dust buster.
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