I frequently collect some spiders from nearby gardens and keep them in my home studio for about a week. Bring the spider out of its temporary home and do some photoshoots in my tabletop studio. I am uploading a few slides, describing a very simple technique for making a spider home
After reading https://macroderie.com/showcase/homemade-frame-for-water-drop-kit-and-how-to-guide.57/ I decided to build my own, controller included.
First picture shows the general setup.
Second photo shows the valve assembly and the gatorade bottle... ehemm... water reservoir.
Third one is the...
Pulsatilla vulgaris - Mars 2021
With an hour more for the COVID curfew since today, it changes everything is immediately better for this kind of photo.
This is a type of common weevil found near home.
magnification 4X
Lomo 3,7X microscope lens and 160 mm extension tubes
1/125, ISO 100
Wemacro automated rail, steps 30 um
Stack of 101 images in Helicon Focus.
It is a very basic setup and low cost (other then the lens and flash.) I have played around with a lot of materials with this and always go back to either calligraphy ink or one called black magic ink for my blacks. I've used lots of dyes for colours from soap dyes to food colouring,, as well...
I think it's a female (hematophagous) specimen.
Lomo 8X microscope lens and extension tubes.
Stack of 78 images in Helicon Focus.
Flashes, homemade diffuser
There’s a tiny spider hanging on to a butterfly that seems almost twenty times its own size! The spider is commonly known as a White crab spider and it usually hangs around white flowers waiting to capture unsuspecting insects such as this unfortunate Common Grass Yellow Butterfly.
The Flower Chafer is a beautiful, shiny, emerald green, and quite large beetle.
Flower chafers are small, stocky beetles that come in shimmering bright colors. They look like round little dumplings. The most popular are the emerald green flower chafer, the pachnoda marginata and the Derby's...
I doubt this insect is a fly, but it looks like one.
Testing the Lomo 8X microscope lens.
Stack of 101 images, steps at 20um, automated rail.
Processed in Helicon Focus and Photoshop.
Flashes & homemade diffusers.