Even more small wildlife

[macrophoto_markus]

Have been taking some advantage of the more or less good weather to search for some species I've wanted to improve my images off of, most shot at night, only the Misumena vatia during the day. As always, OM 90mm, Godox V860III with a custom Diffuser, some with the 2x teleconverter on an EM1 III.


Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757), about 120 images stacked at 4x magnification with the 2x teleconverter, just a slight crop.


Cheiracanthium spec. (C. L. Koch, 1839), also stacked using the 2x teleconverter at 4x magnification, I think about 80-90 shots but I am not totally sure


Harpactea rubicunda (C. L. Koch, 1838), I think at 2x or close, stacked 60? images, these guys are usually rather flighty, but with food they tend to calm down a bit.


Calosoma inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758), a rather rare species, and a rare? color variation, they are usually copper/green in color, stacked, but at low magnification


Nuctenea umbratica (Clerck, 1757), I've been trying to get as many species of Araneoidae in their web as possible, here's another one to take off the list of species to get, I love her web so much, stacked, not a lot of images

 

[macrophoto_markus]

Forgot this one, though not overly exciting he is quite cute.


Curculio glandium (Marsham, 1802) I think, stacked

 

[JosephScha]

Amazing macro stacked shots! I may eventually try that, but I probably won't post my early tries!

 

[mikero]

Super shots.

I've only ever tried shooting stacked images in the field using natural light (with some success). Clearly you're not finding the flash disturbs the subject, which I find surprising.

Mike

 

[DrHook59]

Super images, Markus. That 90mm is looking more and more attractive. I just have to decide whether to sell a child or the wife. Sigh.

 

[macrophoto_markus]

Amazing macro stacked shots! I may eventually try that, but I probably won't post my early tries!

Thanks! It's quite difficult when starting out, but it's definitely worth it.

 

[macrophoto_markus]

Super shots.

I've only ever tried shooting stacked images in the field using natural light (with some success). Clearly you're not finding the flash disturbs the subject, which I find surprising.

Mike

Thank you, it really depends on the individual, some will flinch as soon as the first flash pops off, usually not worth trying with those.

 

[mikero]

Super shots.

I've only ever tried shooting stacked images in the field using natural light (with some success). Clearly you're not finding the flash disturbs the subject, which I find surprising.

Mike

Thank you, it really depends on the individual, some will flinch as soon as the first flash pops off, usually not worth trying with those.

Thanks. I've had quite a lot of success with bracketed shots of flies - incredible detail when it works. But I guess they wouldn't stay past the first flash.

Mike

 

[macrophoto_markus]

Super shots.

I've only ever tried shooting stacked images in the field using natural light (with some success). Clearly you're not finding the flash disturbs the subject, which I find surprising.

Mike

Thank you, it really depends on the individual, some will flinch as soon as the first flash pops off, usually not worth trying with those.

Thanks. I've had quite a lot of success with bracketed shots of flies - incredible detail when it works. But I guess they wouldn't stay past the first flash.

Mike

Flies do work, but I only bother at night.


The face was a bit overexposed though unfortunately

 

[macrophoto_markus]

Have been taking some advantage of the more or less good weather to search for some species I've wanted to improve my images off of, most shot at night, only the Misumena vatia during the day. As always, OM 90mm, Godox V860III with a custom Diffuser, some with the 2x teleconverter on an EM1 III.


Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757), about 120 images stacked at 4x magnification with the 2x teleconverter, just a slight crop.

Same species, just yellow, 122 images

 

[DrHook59]

How fascinating to compare those two images, eye for eye, hair for hair, and so on. From a human's normal perspective you would have no clue that each spider was so individually different.

 

[RDoe]

Excellent set! Makes me do more where I just getting into Marco! Well done...

 

[macrophoto_markus]

How fascinating to compare those two images, eye for eye, hair for hair, and so on. From a human's normal perspective you would have no clue that each spider was so individually different.

They can be quite variable even within the same species, there are a few more color variations of the female, the males look completely different as well, but they don't like being photographed as much I feel like.