The Ladybug is one of those insects that most children can easily identify and watch with wonder as they crawl on their hand.
Well, I wonder if they would think of them in this Ladybug nymph stage the same way. These look more like a dragon than they do the bright red polka dotted insect of the nursery rhyme fame.
You do awesome work! I really enjoy your images.
I would have never guessed that was a ladybug 🐞! Awesome job!
Thanks again- great image!
ndiguy wrote:
You do awesome work! I really enjoy your images.
Thanks, I try to show many of natures common creatures in ways not often seen.
Blair Shaw Jr wrote:
Really cool image Sippy
Thanks ever so much, Blair.
Vaun's photography wrote:
I would have never guessed that was a ladybug 🐞! Awesome job!
Thanks, and what is even more fascinating is how the larvae pupates and transform from the nymph to the adult. This is one that I found held fast to a leaf that was in the process of doing just that. It was quite a rare find.
pithydoug wrote:
How many shots?
This was a focus stacked session that consisted of 291 images taken at increments of 15-micrometers via a digital motorized focus rail with a little Fujifilm X-T20 mirrorless camera utilizing an industrial 5X-power microscope objective mounted on a bellows.
I set the ISO to be fixed at 200 and there is no aperture setting on a microscope objective so it is shot full open. The shutter speed is adjusted up or down as I watch the histogram to center with a bit to the left (dark).
My illumination is constant LED lamps that I shine onto two layers of vellum tracing paper placed on the lens like a lens hood with the subject under it which creates a soft enveloping tunnel of light. The subject is pinned into plasticine modeling clay that is set on top of a mirror. The mirror reflects the soft light onto the underside of the subject to avoid dark undersides.
Earnest Botello wrote:
Great macro, Sippy.
Thanks for dropping by, Earnest.
TreborLow wrote:
Thanks again- great image!
Thanks, it's nice to know that you enjoyed seeing it.
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