Small bug

Lord Vetinari

Some shots of a barklouse nymph on the underside of a leaf- pretty sure it's responsible for all the mess. Bug is 1.8mm long - shot at 3.4:1.
Last 2 pics are cross-eye stereograms for those that can view them.
Brian V.

DoctorIt

Very neat little guy! You need to start submitting this tiny stuff to Nikon Small World. I'm pretty sure that 3.4:1, you're creeping up on the microscopy range.

Reminds me a bit of this years winner:


2005: Charles Krebs (click for link)

USAIR

Very cool macros
How long has he been there ?
Judgeing from that mess it's been a month or two
Part I can't figure out is if he is under the leaf how did the poop fall up

Good job Brian

Thanks
Fred

Lord Vetinari

DoctorIt wrote:

Very neat little guy! You need to start submitting this tiny stuff to Nikon Small World. I'm pretty sure that 3.4:1, you're creeping up on the microscopy range.
Thanks DoctorIt.
Think that pic is an equipment level above mine:)
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

USAIR wrote:

Very cool macros
How long has he been there ?
Judgeing from that mess it's been a month or two
Part I can't figure out is if he is under the leaf how did the poop fall up

Good job Brian

Thanks
Fred

Thanks Fred.
Interesting question you raise. This is on the back of an Ivy leaf which normally point downwards. I suspect it's the aftermath of an egg nest and there were several nymphs with adults for a while- they tend to spin fine webbing across small areas. Anway I can only assume out of courtesy to others, they touch the leaf with the end of their abdomen when dropping these and they just stick
Brian V.

mr peas

very cool shots. cant believe you noticed it being so small!

i can barely view the stereo grams, my monitor isnt big enough to be able to show them side by side in a smaller image. my eyes almost got stuck going crosseyed :uhoh

hah

Awais Yaqub

great macros as usual intresting insect

Lord Vetinari

mr peas wrote:

very cool shots. cant believe you noticed it being so small!

i can barely view the stereo grams, my monitor isnt big enough to be able to show them side by side in a smaller image. my eyes almost got stuck going crosseyed :uhoh

hah

I'm getting quite good at spotting these small bugs when nothing bigger is about

You can find smaller versions of the 3-D shots here if they are easier.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/sets/1571779/
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

Awais Yaqub wrote:

great macros as usual intresting insect

Thanks Awais, obviously little guys like this don't quite attract the attention some of the bigger bugs get
Brian V.

tmlphoto

Cool shots LV. It's getting warmer around here, so I've revived my macro setup. I just got some Kenko extension rings, so hopefully I'll be able to try some of the high ratio stuff.

Lord Vetinari

tmlphoto wrote:

Cool shots LV. It's getting warmer around here, so I've revived my macro setup. I just got some Kenko extension rings, so hopefully I'll be able to try some of the high ratio stuff.

Thanks Thomas
I managed to find bugs somewhere or another most of the winter- they just got smaller though.
You'll have fun with the ETs- seems to get lots more detail between 1:1 and 2:1.
Brian V.

ziggy53

Lord V.,

Very cool indeed. Also a little spooky, with the translucent bodies and visible innards and such.

Will you try to get one when it has matured?

Thanks,

ziggy53

Lord Vetinari

ziggy53 wrote:

Lord V.,

Very cool indeed. Also a little spooky, with the translucent bodies and visible innards and such.

Will you try to get one when it has matured?

Thanks,

ziggy53

Thanks Ziggy53
Already have some shots of the adult- doesn't look amazingly different- just bigger wings. Body length about 2mm.
Brian V.

Tessa HD

very neat! pretty messy for such a little thing!!!
tessa

Lord Vetinari

Tessa HD wrote:

tessa

Thanks Tessa- think there must have been a family there at one stage and this is the last one left
Brian V.

Thusie

EYOW That is some bug and some shot!clap

ziggy53

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks Ziggy53
Already have some shots of the adult- doesn't look amazingly different- just bigger wings. Body length about 2mm.
Brian V.

Thanks Brian,

That makes a very neat comparison. I especially like those three sensors between the eyes. Insects are very complicated little beasties.

ziggy53

Skippy

Awwww He's Cute

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Some shots of a barklouse nymph on the underside of a leaf- pretty sure it's responsible for all the mess. Bug is 1.8mm long - shot at 3.4:1.
Last 2 pics are cross-eye stereograms for those that can view them.
Brian V.

Gawwwwwd Brian he is soooooo tiny and he does look cross-eyed but cute he's gorgeous I want one

I so have to get my Microscope out and see if any of my lenses will attach to it......they should....... it's just getting the time to do it, my job consumes most of my time unfortunately.

Excellent work from you yet again Brian, keep them coming
Skippy (Australia)

Lord Vetinari

Thusie wrote:

EYOW That is some bug and some shot!clap

Thanks Thusie,
As I found out recently practicing shots on these tiny bugs has suddenly made what were last years tiny bugs (eg ants) all of a sudden huge
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

Skippy wrote:

Gawwwwwd Brian he is soooooo tiny and he does look cross-eyed but cute he's gorgeous I want one

I so have to get my Microscope out and see if any of my lenses will attach to it......they should....... it's just getting the time to do it, my job consumes most of my time unfortunately.

Excellent work from you yet again Brian, keep them coming
Skippy (Australia)

Ah work - does tend to get in the way-one of the advantages of being retired
I suspect you would find these little things all over the place- they seem to like the underside of ivy leaves for example.
Brian V.

Dee

Wow

Lord Vetinari wrote:

I'm getting quite good at spotting these small bugs when nothing bigger is about

You can find smaller versions of the 3-D shots here if they are easier.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/sets/1571779/
Brian V.

How do you set the photos up for this... the smaller versions worked perfectly, how neat! I used to play games crossing my eyes when I was way much younger...

Lord Vetinari

Dee wrote:

How do you set the photos up for this... the smaller versions worked perfectly, how neat! I used to play games crossing my eyes when I was way much younger...

Very easy to do.
Just take one pic and then move the camera laterally about 1/30th of the subject distance and take another pic. For macro shots like this it means the camera movement is actually quite small.
I then use a freeware programme (stereophotomaker) to align the pictures properly (it's fairly important that the elements in the both pictures are horizontally aligned). Just have to remember that the picture that was taken on the left is swapped over to the right in the final pairing to make it a cross-eye stereogram. :
Brian V.

Dee

Thanks for the info,
but Stereophoto Maker is NOT available for the Mac.

I just can't anticipate trying these unless the subject is not moving.

Google turned up this for the Mac StereoPress http://www2.pair.com/%7Eshuono/tools/StereoPress/StereoPress_Abstruct_e.shtml

I haven't tried it, but for any Mac users it might be worth a look.

Lord Vetinari

Dee wrote:

but Stereophoto Maker is NOT available for the Mac.

I just can't anticipate trying these unless the subject is not moving.

Google turned up this for the Mac StereoPress http://www2.pair.com/%7Eshuono/tools/StereoPress/StereoPress_Abstruct_e.shtml

I haven't tried it, but for any Mac users it might be worth a look.

Hi Dee- have a suspicion that it is for anaglyph or interleave 3-D pics rather than alignment. You can do the alignment in PS which is how I used to do it.
Brian V.