Three bugs

Lord Vetinari

Three bugs from yesterday - all 5Dmk2/MPE-65/430Ex flash.

Brian v.

Bark fly on the car





Jewel wasp investigating a bottle brush shrub







Hoverfly on the car - focus stacks using zerene stacker





Cross-eye stereogram

BigAl

Nice Brian - I especially like the first jewel fly.

Lord Vetinari

BigAl wrote: »

Nice Brian - I especially like the first jewel fly.

Thanks Al
Brian v.

GOLDENORFE

good shots of the bark fly and hover, did you have trouble shooting the jewel wasp? they are so fast!

DeVil

I really enjoy to watch your 3D shots

jpc

Great shots as always, but I absolutely cannot get your stereograms to work. How long should it take? Maybe I'm giving up to quickly.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments all - appreciated

Phil - yes the jewel wasp was a bit of a pain. It did stay in the same area allowing me to hold the branch but was continuously moving around most of the time. Always have to at least try and get some pics when I see one of these tiny beauties which is not often.

JPC - I see the stereos instantly but I've had a lot of practice. Try sitting around 2 feet from the monitor and put a finger up about 4" from your nose and focus on that. You should notice the two pictures in the background resolve into 3 pictures. Then try to remove the finger whilst keeping the 3rd picture in the middle in view. That's the 3-D one. You literally have to train your/eyes brain to see them but once you get it it's a lot easier after. Don't try for too long though as you can give yourself a headache.

Brian V.

DeVil

Is it hard to make stereograms?
I would like to make some stereograms myself. Do you have some tip or tutorial?

jpc

Now I can see the third picture, but I lose it when I take my finger away. I can see why this might give me a headache! I'll keep trying. Thanks for the tutorial, Brian.

korandoke

nice !

greetings,

Korandoke

Lord Vetinari

Thanks again for the comments

DeVil, Basically you take two shots of the subject but move the camera sideways between the shots around 1/30th of the subject to focal plane distance. You can use a freeware prog called stereophotomaker to align the shots horizontally and to set the stereo window. Normally the subject should appear behind the window without touching it. You then swap the pictures over to make a cross-eye stereogram and add a border. The sideways movement for macro shots is around 5mm to 2cms depending on the magnification but for "normal" shots can be a couple of feet.

Brian v.

DeVil

Thanks Brian

IPClark

That jewel wasp is beautiful. As always a superb set of shots but I really DO like that jewel wasp. Beautiful creature.

Lord Vetinari

IPClark wrote: »

That jewel wasp is beautiful. As always a superb set of shots but I really DO like that jewel wasp. Beautiful creature.

Thanks Ian
Don't often see these jewel wasps but they are amazing looking things - unfortunately they rarely stay still.
Brian v.