Ah yeah: I'm in Berkeley, California, USA and "he" is correct )

Cool,
Thanks for the swift reply, I would never be able to find the ID myself.

my specimen looks pretty close to this one indeed:

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Here is the whole insect, I hope you guys can help to identify it. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1135_IMG_6602H600_1.jpg Mitch: I tried all the combinations that I can think of, with eye pieces and camera lenses etc. I tried with 10x and 12.5x eye pieces, I was able to get much highe...

My setup is not without problems either: 1- with the initial setup the contrast was awful; I realized that it's because of the light bouncing off the microscope tube surface which is kind of glossy. I fixed that by inserting a normal eye piece with its lenses removed, thus using just the aperture to...

Harold: I'll post the smaller-scale ones once I get home. Mitch: shot through the microscope. I said direct projection since I'm not using any sort of "photo eyepiece" at all. Optical path consists of just the microscope objective (and some air :o), so practically the microscope body becomes just a ...

One more image from a different angle with different lighting (and white balance). In this image the thickness of the eye shell and the inside of the head is visible. I'm also planning to generate a rocking 3D sequence, hopefully with that the structure will be clearer. http://www.photomacrography.n...

I found this dead insect on the ground on my way to home. It's a black, relatively big (25mm) insect which I though would give nice pictures with my macro lens. After taking few test shots the death cause became apparent: its head was crushed which is very hard to see with naked eye. Since it became...

And this one is macro-lens version, the one that I took before taking the leaf under the scope.

I found this yellow ladybug on a dried leaf on the ground. I took few photographs with my macro lens and in the pictures I saw that it's eating some aphids. But something felt wrong: ladybug was not moving at all, it looked like it's a Pompei-like scene, ladybug is frozen while eating aphids. I took...

The mystery is solved: It was the master flash that was choking. Today I tried another stack session but this time with a off-camera cord instead of wireless master-slave setting and I was able to shoot the entire batch (70-80 images) at ~0.5 fps without any problems. Thanks everyone for the helpful...

I think that small light spot is there because the flash light leaking in between the objective body and the ping-pong ball hole as I could not open a perfect circular hole there. Probably the flash light reflects off from the upper section of the objective and reflects down to the specimen through ...

I'm not sure about the ID. I found this guy on the floor almost-dead when I realized my cats are playing with something. I put the little poor thing int the deep freezer to end its pain ASAP without damaging the body. First image is with 4x objective, the last two are with 10x objective (the last on...

Thanks sonyalpha, I'm glad that you liked those. the images are aready cropped but just slightly to adjust the composiotion. 1:1 crops are not that sharp though, I'm sure there are many other images in this forum that are sharper than these. I guess my inclanation to use bigger apertures -to gather ...

Canon 7D (using the popup flash as the master) on the right hand Canon 430EX II flash ( in slave mode ) on the left hand Paper napkin diffuser with the cone made of aluminum roasting pan http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1135_IMG_17161024_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userp...

Excellent!