Stacks Collection (Wasps, Robberfly & Beetle)

Yousef Alhabshi

Hi everyone,

I would like to share some stack works I have done recently.. hope you like them.
The full views can be accessed in my Flickr pages.

Bee mouthpart

Bee mouth parts by Yousef Al-Habshi, on Flickr
Camera : Nikon D7000
Objective : Nikon BD Plan 20x/0.4 210/0

Robber fly

Robberfly Portrait by Yousef Al-Habshi, on Flickr
Camera : Nikon D7000
Objective : JML21mm

Longhorned Beetle

Longhorned Beetle by Yousef Al-Habshi, on Flickr
Camera : Nikon D7000
Objective : JML21mm

Cuckoo Wasp

Cuckoo Wasp by Yousef Al-Habshi, on Flickr
Camera : Nikon D7000
Objective : JML21mm

Robberfly - Abstract

Robberfly II - Abstract by Yousef Al-Habshi, on Flickr
Camera : Nikon D7000
Objective : Mitutoyo 10x

Thank you for passing by Smile

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Cactusdave · Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 962 Location: Bromley, Kent, UK

Another excellent set. Lots of variety and beautifully realised.
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dennisua · Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 84 Location: Kiev, Ukraine

Absolutely incredible images.

DQE · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:05 am Post subject:

Exceptionally beautiful lighting and remarkable detail over the subject and scene.
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It's interesting how a unique photographic style develops for most dedicated macro photographers. I think I could recognize your photos since they are so distinctive (as well as unusually beautiful).
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Ruben Resendiz · Joined: 16 Sep 2011 Posts: 8 Location: Cd de Mexico, Mexico

HI Yousef

I've seen your pictures on your Flickr account a few weeks ago, and they are truly amazing photos, one of my favorites is White Weevil,.

Can I ask how you light your photographs, especially with objects that have a metallic texture like Cuckoo Wasp and does not reflect light.

Wonderful photos
thanks for sharing
RR

pwnell · Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 533 Location: Surrey, Canada

All of them are awesome, the last three took my breath away. Excellent work.

Yousef Alhabshi · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:44 am Post subject:

Thank you everyone for honoring me with your encourging & pleasing comments.. I'm all flattered

@Ruben:
I'm still using dual flashes to lighening my subjects.. I just bought the 3rd flash.. & i'll see if I can fit somehow in a way to enhance the lighting here.
I was hoping to switch to the continous lighting soon.. but unforunately, it seems that i'm still getting a problem with the stability & the viberations in my place. Till recently i got the idea that it could be because of my both cameras (Canon 60D + Nikon D7000) so I borrowed 50D, 7D & 5DMII & did some testing to see since i believe I read that the 60D got some problems with the silent mode comparing to 50D, 7D & 5DII.
Suprisngly, I got excatly the same results of 7D with my 60D in terms of sharpness & stablalitiy. As for 50D, the amount of the captured details were much less & smoother.. therefore I couldn't tell how it performs against the other 2 in term of the EFSC.
I don't thing i'm going to swith to continous lighting any soon.. till I figure out a away to kill these nasty viberations.

As for the metallic texture, I found out that the closer the lighting source, the higher the reflections are.. so simply just have some distance between your light source and the reflecting object. Also, increasing the diffused width + higher flash power will do the trick.. at least for me Wink

Again, thank you everyone for pleasing me with your words & comments.

Yousef
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Pau · Joined: 20 Jan 2010 Posts: 1310 Location: Valencia, Spain

Yousef Alhabshi · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:14 am Post subject:

Yousef Alhabshi · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:10 am Post subject: Tests

Hi,

OK.. I re-checked the results and wasn't really convinced with the 40X test. By checking the 20X tests I can see clearly that there was a slightly differences in the results.

Also, I just notice that the exposure for both 7D & 60D were set to 1.3sec, while the 50D was only 1sec!! Funny since I don't remember changing the shutter speed. All coloring profile were set to default. Live view + Silent mode2. I used Nikon BD Plan 20x 210/0 0.4 on Nikon PB-6 Bellows.

Original image

100% crops + 200% re-sized crops

Tests by Yousef Al-Habshi, on Flickr
>> Full Size

Can you tell which cameras are each of A, B &C?

I will re-test both the 60D & 7D again with different objectives & i'll share my results.
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Charles Krebs · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 4067 Location: Issaquah, WA USA

Yousef,

All these images are excellent! Great work.

A few thoughts about the camera comparisons you are performing. (You may already have considered these points).

Yousef Alhabshi · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:21 am Post subject:

Charles,

Thank you for your appreciated highlights on this regards. I believe we almost post our replies at the same time. You can see that I replaced the result of 40X with the 20X. I wasn't aware of the exposure point.. as you can see all the exposures have already exceeded 1sec.

I'll re-do the tests one more time with both cameras using 5X & 10X.

Again thank you for your helpful inputs.
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rjlittlefield · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:37 am Post subject:

One other possibility to consider is differences in noise reduction. In the hairs and the white blob I'm seeing only a little difference, but in A, a lot of the fine pebbly texture is almost completely gone. This combination gives me the impression that A has gone through an NR filter. I'm not sure how to investigate that. Maybe shoot raw and run them all through the same converter?

--Rik

Charles Krebs · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 4067 Location: Issaquah, WA USA

Yousef,

Yes... I was just posting when you uploaded the test images.

Longer exposures can go a long way to minimize equipment induced vibration (like mirror and shutter motions), but at the same time it provides a much larger "window" for any external "environmental" to have a negative effect. If you suspect "environmental" vibration to be an issue than electronic flash may be the simplest solution.
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Yousef Alhabshi · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:16 pm Post subject:

Rik,

By reading your input I think I agree with you. Unfortunately, Camera "A" was the 50D which I already returned so I cannot confirm whether the NR was ON or OFF. By checking both 60D & 7D, NR were OFF on both cameras.
But for only 1sec exposure.. can the NR remove this much of details? to me it's like too much for the built-in NR to do. Anyway, I'll consider testing the NR as well in my next test.

Charles,

Yes, i do have some environmental vibrations issue. The thing is, by using the flash i'm losing the EFSC feature at higher magnification. I thought it would be better to handle Hi-mag with continuous lighting due to the long exposure + EFSC combination.
You said electronic flash.. do you mean using the flash normally or am I missing something with the word "electronic"?
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