Damp miner bee

Lord Vetinari

Found a slightly damp miner bee yesterday norning and did my normal trick of allowing it to dry out/warm up on my finger. All shots focus stacked using zerene stacker.
Brian v.

ricstew

you could have combed his hair.......looks a bit scruffy
How did you keep him still enough to get images to stack? I can never get it to work lol
cheers
Jan

IPClark

Lovely shots Brian.

I must admit, it baffles me how you manage to get the stacks when on your finger. I assume you were shooting hand held with one hand? That's serious control as I know when I took my nomadas on my finger, I was holding the camera with one hand and would never have managed a stack (mind you I can't get the shots right for a stack in the first place )

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments

Jan - when they are cold and damp like this, they don't tend to move around too much.

Ian - Not as hard as it seems with bugs on the finger. The MPE-65 has a short enough focus distance for you to rest the end of the lens on the same hand. This stabilises the shot and makes small focus increments a lot easier.

Brian v.

GOLDENORFE

A very bedragled one Brian, did it manage to fly afterwards?

Lord Vetinari

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

A very bedragled one Brian, did it manage to fly afterwards?

Phil, yes it took about 10 mins on my hand first though.
Brian v.

IPClark

Makes sense Brian . Suppose in some respects, an MPE is like having a regular lens with a bunch of ext. tubes built on (although not by construction). I'd be able to rest the front of the lens on my finger if I had the 3 tubes on my 100. Might start practicing that on some static objects.