Great photo, and splendid title for it! It wouldn’t be as spooky and effective as an HDR shot.
Rick > On May 10, 2020, at 4:18 PM, Henk Terhell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Larry, single frame with Tamron macro 90/2.8, handheld w/o focus stack. > I do focus stack a lot with tripod for e.g. mushrooms but I don't master this > technique for living insects like dragonflies and butterflies where you can > only slowly creep in their direction and hope they don't fly away. I almost > never use artificial light for these. Usually there is sufficient light > otherwise they wouldn't fly. > Here is the wiki on the pseudopupil: > > In the compound/eye/of invertebrates such as insects and crustaceans, the > pseudopupil appears as a/dark spot/which moves across the/eye/as the animal > is rotated. This occurs because the ommatidia that one observes "head-on" > (along their optical axes) absorb the incident light, while those to one side > reflect it. > > Henk > > Op 2020-05-10 om 21:44 schreef Larry Colen: >> >>> On May 9, 2020, at 9:18 AM, Henk Terhell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> This large red damselfly staring at me is fortunately not that large: >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/49873110188/in/photostream/ >> Nice job. Single frame? The DoF isn’t razor thin, but it’s not super wide >> like most stacked images. >> >> Hexagonal shaped light? Or is that an artifact of the eyes, like the way >> the dark spot always seems to be aimed right at the camera? >> >> >>> Henk >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> -- >> Larry Colen >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
