Wing scales

Linden.g · Post by **Linden.g** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:21 pm

The first on is the Sunset moth, Ok it's been done many times, but I still cannot resists. The second two are Papilio blumei fruhstorferi.

Ecooper · Post by **Ecooper** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:06 pm

Fabulous! What lens/set-up are you using?

EC

pwnell · Post by **pwnell** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:12 pm

Beautiful control over specular highlights and exposure.

Linden.g · Post by **Linden.g** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:00 pm

Thanks for the kind comments. These were done on an Olympus BH-2 using a 20x SPlan Achromat with two diffused flash guns. A picture of the whole set-up is here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13084997@N ... 8697012197. The flash rig is here (diffuser was removed, plastic bottle material semitranslucent).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13084997@N ... 697012197/ and focus stacking was achieved using a stackshot drive http://www.flickr.com/photos/13084997@N ... 697012197/

Litonotus · Post by **Litonotus** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:28 pm

love the first one! great colors.

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:28 am

The last one is a masterpiece

Fredlab · Post by **Fredlab** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:48 am

Hello

Really great shots.
Working distance of an SPlan 20 seems to be sufficient.

Linden.g · Post by **Linden.g** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:37 am

Fredlab wrote:Hello

Really great shots.
Working distance of an SPlan 20 seems to be sufficient.

The working distance is still tight. The bigger issue is more around the lack of sharpness and some uncontrolled chromatic aberration which I have to deal with in Photoshop. There are definitely better lenses out there for this type of work.

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:05 am

Nice set, my favorite is #1!

Rogelio

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 12:33 pm

Very nice pictures

naturephoto1 · Post by **naturephoto1** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:39 pm

Linden,

Beautiful set.

Rich