Window gnats

Lord Vetinari · March 18, 2008

Some shots or window gnats with some 3-D cross-eye stereograms. The gnats are about 6-7mm body length.

Brian V.

Chrissiebeez_NL · March 18, 2008

wow, the first ones are superb!

bow

GOLDENORFE · March 18, 2008

ABSOLUTLY AMAZING!

ARE THEY STACKED?

ziggy53 · March 18, 2008

Gorgeous(?) gnats Brian.

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Excellent use of background and especially color in the last couple.

Giphsub · March 18, 2008

Wow!

the use of colour is spot on!

sanford tullis · March 18, 2008

SPEECHLESS!

Lord Vetinari · March 19, 2008

Thanks for the kind comments everyone - much appreciated.
The colour un them is from some plastic lizards I try to use as background colour, but the in the last 2 shots the gnat decided to stand on one of their feet.

Goldenorfe - yes these are all focus stacked.

Brian V.

Skippy · March 20, 2008

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Some shots or window gnats with some 3-D cross-eye stereograms. The gnats are about 6-7mm body length.

Brian V.

Awwwwwwwesome !! gawwwwwwd Brian.
Heaven help us the day that Brian says he's got nothing to photograph

May your seemingly endless supply of Bugs and Insects for many many more years to come

Beautiful Work.......thank you Brian

... Skippy

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thegridrunner · March 20, 2008

the mpe-65 lense is the only reason I would consider switching to a canon system. Every time I see your work Brian, I keep wishing Nikon would come out with it's own version of the lense. Beautiful work Brian.

Ahzdeeen · March 20, 2008

...wow. just incredible. You and Dalantech are the reasons why I splurged and bought a Canon and MP-E 65..great work as usual

MichelleL · March 20, 2008

amazing stuff Brian - very inspirational.

Lord Vetinari · March 21, 2008

Thanks again for the kind comments everybody- much appreciated.

Patrick - there are other ways of getting similar magnifications - I used to use my 105mm with a full set of extension tubes and a reversed 50mm lends on the front to get to 4:1. Not as conveniant as an MPE-65 I must admit.
I tend to use a dedicated back for the MPE-65 to try and keep dust problems to a minimum (the lens really shows any speck of dust on your sensor) so a canon back on the lens would not stop you being a Nikon person

Brian V.

thegridrunner · March 21, 2008

Thanks Brian, I have a old 50 mm canon f/1.8 lens. How good is the image quality when you stack so much glass in front of a image? I saw the cardboard tube you rigged up but I just wondering if it is worth the effort?
One more thing, you mentioned that you use a dedicated back for the MPE-65? Do you mean that I could put a nikon mount on a MPE-65 lense?

canon400d · March 21, 2008

thegridrunner wrote:

Thanks Brian, I have a old 50 mm canon f/1.8 lens. How good is the image quality when you stack so much glass in front of a image? I saw the cardboard tube you rigged up but I just wondering if it is worth the effort?
One more thing, you mentioned that you use a dedicated back for the MPE-65? Do you mean that I could put a nikon mount on a MPE-65 lense?

Well Brian . Oh Yes you have done it again absolutely wonderful and it is only you and one or two others that keeps us going. Great stuff.
Regards
Bob

Icebear · March 22, 2008

It is almost scary with critters like these when the stereo image finally snaps into focus!

Lord Vetinari · March 22, 2008

thegridrunner wrote:

Thanks Brian, I have a old 50 mm canon f/1.8 lens. How good is the image quality when you stack so much glass in front of a image? I saw the cardboard tube you rigged up but I just wondering if it is worth the effort?
One more thing, you mentioned that you use a dedicated back for the MPE-65? Do you mean that I could put a nikon mount on a MPE-65 lense?

The image IQ is not bad at all. see pic below of a 2mm long springtail taken with ny sigma 105, reversed 50mm and a full set of ext tubes. Thatwas taken at F13 which is far snmller than I would use on my MPE-65.

Regards the camera back- no I was refering to using a canon DSLR just on that lens, there isn't any sensible way you can attch the lens to a nikon camera.

Brian V.

Lord Vetinari · March 22, 2008

canon400d wrote:

Well Brian . Oh Yes you have done it again absolutely wonderful and it is only you and one or two others that keeps us going. Great stuff.
Regards
Bob

Thanks Bob for the kind comments

Brian V.

Lord Vetinari · March 22, 2008

Icebear wrote:

It is almost scary with critters like these when the stereo image finally snaps into focus!

Thanks

Yes the 3-Ds do like rather life-like

Brian V.

Awais Yaqub · March 22, 2008

Superb

thegridrunner · March 25, 2008

Well Brian, I have been tortured enough... I picked up a tamron 90mm F/2.8 macro and a full set of extension tubes... now to find some flies

wink

Lord Vetinari · March 25, 2008

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Superb

Thanks Awais

Brian V.

Lord Vetinari · March 25, 2008

thegridrunner wrote:

Well Brian, I have been tortured enough... I picked up a tamron 90mm F/2.8 macro and a full set of extension tubes... now to find some flies wink

Look forward to seeing some shots Patrick

Brian V.

DeeBug · October 27, 2013

Fantastic Brian!

DeVil · October 27, 2013

Great set

Lord Vetinari · October 27, 2013

Thanks for the comments Deebug and Devil - bit of rave from the grave
Brian v.

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