I wanted to stage a session that gave an illusion of the Carpenter Bee in flight and when I looked at it with a magnified view, I noticed that it had mites all over it. If you zoom in and look at its rear you can see them as well as in the hair of its legs. These are impossible to see with just the eye alone so in came as a surprise to find them.
I suspect that some are still alive and the trails that you see are them crawling about as the camera went through its multiple image shooting process.
I placed a section of a page from a travel magazine and put it a short distance behind the subject which produced this sky-like appearance for a background.
Wow. What a surprise. Nice shot.
what a surprise that was, I've lots of shots with them on bees, but how did they survive the alcohol?
looks kinda washed out in the center of the bee.....
That is a new kind of artifact! A new one for me.
Napabob, I suspect that the aperture was mistakenly set too wide for this series of shots. I placed the translucent cup diffuser on the end of the lens, not independent of the camera as I normally do, and when I put it on I must have turned the barrel moving the f-stop to f2.8 when I like to shoot this lens setup at f5.6 hence the result was a bit soft and blur in the center.
Mite trails, I don't suppose many people have seen those before. I too wonder how they survived the chemicals.
The stationary mites in leg hairs are empty exoskeletons, aka 'mummies'.
Nikonian72 wrote:
The stationary mites in leg hairs are empty exoskeletons, aka 'mummies'.
Then the ones in motion are the 'daddies'?
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