Red Velvet Mite

Cornel · Post by **Cornel** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:53 am

Cute furball

Troels · Post by **Troels** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:36 am

That is beautiful.
Very well done!

Troels

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:47 am

Lovely! Looks like a tiny dot of a critter, what's the scale?

microman · Post by **microman** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:12 am

Very good picture !

Cornel · Post by **Cornel** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:05 pm

Beatsy wrote:Lovely! Looks like a tiny dot of a critter, what's the scale?

It's 4:1

abpho · Post by **abpho** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:48 pm

Cornel wrote:
Beatsy wrote:Lovely! Looks like a tiny dot of a critter, what's the scale?
It's 4:1

Woh! That's a big one. Very nice image. I have been meaning to revisit this one. It's definitely on my list once my rig is completed.

MarkSturtevant · Post by **MarkSturtevant** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 8:02 am

Very nice! Is this a stacked image?

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 8:41 am

I'm interested in technique in general. I'm thinking this is a posed specimen, and if so I'd like to know how you managed to get the lifelike appearance and retain it long enough to shoot. Or if it's not a posed specimen, then I am very curious to know how you captured this image!

--Rik

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:03 am

Very nice image of a difficult subject. I tried a stack of one of these years ago that ended up in my recycle bin. But you did a great job with it.

I caught one on video last summer. They're funny little things with a whimsical kind of movement. https://youtu.be/Ob6tESvi6FY?t=69 The mite comes in at 1:09.

Cornel · Post by **Cornel** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:32 pm

It was a dead specimen and yes the hardest part is to get a lifelike pose. That was relatively easy, specimens with long thin legs are much more difficult, this ant was probably the hardest I've done.

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:09 am

Wow, the ant is in a convincingly life-like pose (well, it looks life-like to me). I'm trying to do this too (just started tackling it), but as you say "it's hard". Any tips you might share would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Cornel · Post by **Cornel** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:17 am

Beatsy wrote:Wow, the ant is in a convincingly life-like pose (well, it looks life-like to me). I'm trying to do this too (just started tackling it), but as you say "it's hard". Any tips you might share would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Sometimes I try to glue/tape/immobilize the subject in a certain position and leave it like that for a day or more so it hardens in that position but it doesn't always work. Sometimes is just luck, one day you get it perfect the first time, the second day the leg just won't bend that way