Wolf Spider Face On View
Jan 27, 2019 21:29:40 #
Wolf Spider Face 1-27-19 by Herman Munster, on FlickrThis is the female Wolf Spider that I found in the woods during my search for insects yesterday. This image was taken with the Laowa 60mm 2X macro lens and it is a stacked image consisting of 625 shots with the aperture set at f-2.8 and a shutter speed of 1/50 second. Lighting is comprised of constant LED desk lamps diffused with a translucent plastic drink cup placed around the subject. I place her on my DIY orbiting staging platform to get the face on angle while shooting in a vertical position.
I placed her on a piece of blue paper cut from a page of a magazine and you can see pixels of the four color printing process that make up the pale blue color at the points of closest focus.
Thanks to all those who care to view and your comments, suggestions and critique are highly appreciated.
Jan 27, 2019 21:46:15 #
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Jan 28, 2019 00:11:40 #
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Jan 28, 2019 01:17:00 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Very good! There is a lot of depth to this one.
yes,nice stack!
Jan 28, 2019 08:18:27 #
Jan 28, 2019 09:04:40 #
Jan 28, 2019 10:54:58 #
Brenda, she was curled up and frozen stiff in the earth under the piece of old log that I overturned. I thawed her out in by soaking her in warm water and drying her with a hairdryer.
She may have survived the remaining months of winter here but I don't know how long they can remain in such a frozen state but Mother Nature works in strange ways at times.
She may have survived the remaining months of winter here but I don't know how long they can remain in such a frozen state but Mother Nature works in strange ways at times.
Jan 28, 2019 10:59:31 #
They will overwinter as adults, much like you had found her. But there is mortality among them during that period.
Jan 28, 2019 19:19:12 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Brenda, she was curled up and frozen stiff in the earth under the piece of old log that I overturned. I thawed her out in by soaking her in warm water and drying her with a hairdryer.
She may have survived the remaining months of winter here but I don't know how long they can remain in such a frozen state but Mother Nature works in strange ways at times.
She may have survived the remaining months of winter here but I don't know how long they can remain in such a frozen state but Mother Nature works in strange ways at times.
She did have that just from the stylist look. On pin and spread, freeze her a month or so. Will dry some, then a soak in alcohol may keep her lifelike. Spiders bodies usually shrink, but the rest will look alive.
Bill
PS. 625 shots?, Whew.
Jan 28, 2019 19:31:49 #
Bill, perhaps I did over do it on this one a bit. The minimum step distance of the digital micro rail is 1.0 micron (not millimeter). I had the step distance of the macro rail programmed to travel 15-micron per shot. That's how it got to over 600 shots for the distance that it traveled from the closest to the farthest point of focus.
It also took over three hours to process and stack all of the shots so all-in-all it was a lengthy process.
It also took over three hours to process and stack all of the shots so all-in-all it was a lengthy process.
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