David and Goliath

Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
edited March 3, 2008 in Holy Macro
But can you spot David ?

Brian V.

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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    Yes i can :yikes
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  • coscorrosacoscorrosa Registered Users Posts: 2,284 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    Awesome! Looks like Goliath needs his own macro lens.
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  • WacrerWacrer Registered Users Posts: 78 Big grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    what the.......

    I am in aw! :devbobo what an amazing world we live in!!!! perfect dof!
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  • StagehandStagehand Registered Users Posts: 29 Big grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    wow, thats cool!
  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    Very nicely done bowdown.gif

    What kind of 'thing' is David?
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  • BPerronBPerron Registered Users Posts: 464 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    That looks like a potato bug...very cool shot!!!!!!! It is absolutely amazing what you were able to capture.
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    Thanks for the comments everyone :)
    Have to admit I didn't spot the other bug until I was processing so a lot of luck involved :)

    Ivar- fairly sure "David" is a baby detritus mite. They adults are normally around 1mm in diameter not the 0.12mm that bug works out at.

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  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    story telling macro shots..

    it shouldnt get any more crazy than that rolleyes1.gif

    how about panning the thing? lol3.gif
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  • canon400dcanon400d Banned Posts: 2,826 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    Chrissiebeez_NL wrote:
    story telling macro shots..

    it shouldnt get any more crazy than that rolleyes1.gif

    how about panning the thing? lol3.gif[/quote

    Very well done Brian, and if you hadn't said I am sure everyone would have asked how you did it.
    Bob
  • RobinivichRobinivich Registered Users Posts: 438 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Have to admit I didn't spot the other bug until I was processing so a lot of luck involved :)
    Brian V.

    This is one of my favourite aspects of macro! On a much less impressive scale, I once spent an hour getting shots of bees and drone flies collecting pollen from blossoms, and it was only afterwards that I figured out why the drone flies weren't moving that much (crab spiders...obviously they could work out which ones stung and which didn't)

    Fantastic shot! And the magnification is making me jealous...
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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    coscorrosa wrote:
    Awesome! Looks like Goliath needs his own macro lens.

    rolleyes1.gif So true! Amazing capture. This really puts into perspective how big the world really is.
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  • MichelleLMichelleL Registered Users Posts: 210 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    Love it. Your work is always impressive. Keep them coming as i'm learning from your example.
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,076 moderator
    edited March 2, 2008
    Awesome shot! thumb.gifthumbthumb.gif
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  • SylarSylar Registered Users Posts: 83 Big grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    Wow
    wow Lordv that's amazing this image did you taken in 5:1 with mp-e ?

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  • RBrogenRBrogen Registered Users Posts: 1,518 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2008
    GREAT SHOT Brian!!!
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2008
    Thanks for the kind comments everybody :)

    Sylar was taken with the MPE-65 but at 3:1 and hand focus stacked (just the louse)
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 3, 2008
    schmoo wrote:
    rolleyes1.gif So true! Amazing capture. This really puts into perspective how big the world really is.
    Indeed nod.gif we've got three orders of magnitude (factors greater than 10x) represented in one photo!
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2008
    DoctorIt wrote:
    Indeed nod.gif we've got three orders of magnitude (factors greater than 10x) represented in one photo!

    Three orders ? or do you count the BG as the third ? :)

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  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2008
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Three orders ? or do you count the BG as the third ? :)

    Brian V.

    isn't the viewer the third order? mwink.gif
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  • matasamatasa Registered Users Posts: 170 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2008
    Impressive as always clap.gif
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 3, 2008
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Three orders ? or do you count the BG as the third ? :)
    I was thinking the photographer, but I like your interpretation even better!
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2008
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    But can you spot David ?

    Brian V.



    Ohhhhhh wow I see him, I see him, gosh he is a big ole boy isn't he,
    compared to little Davo rolleyes1.gif

    It looks like the larger guy is trying to pick up the smaller guy headscratch.gif
    Hmmmm apparently he aint hear the David and Goliath story before rolleyes1.gif

    Very Cool Shot Brian clap.gif ... Skippy :D
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2008
    Wow, what an incredible shot. You can measure that baby in Microns! bowdown.gif
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