Chrysoperla carnea (common Green Lacewing)

[CrispyBee]

Sony A6000 & Laowa 90mm 2.8 2x at f3.8-f4
1.5x - 2x
Swebo rail, manual stacks (between 55 and 150 frames per image)


One mandible is stuck to an eye, bit annoying but I'm not in my studio so I have to live with it ;-)
Quite a nice results from such a "simple" setup, though after 70 images it gets a bit tiresome hehe

[rjlittlefield]

Very nice!

I'm curious how this was shot.

Aside from the palp stuck to its eye, the subject appears to be in typical live position clinging to a glass sheet that it was photographed through.

But I'm having trouble imagining a green lacewing holding still enough to shoot so many frames manually.

So, what's the story? Is there some special technique, or is my imagination just failing? (Or both of those, or something else?)

--Rik

[CrispyBee]

Very nice!

I'm curious how this was shot.

Aside from the palp stuck to its eye, the subject appears to be in typical live position clinging to a glass sheet that it was photographed through.

But I'm having trouble imagining a green lacewing holding still enough to shoot so many frames manually.

So, what's the story? Is there some special technique, or is my imagination just failing? (Or both of those, or something else?)

--Rik

Thank you Rik!!

This is in fact a dead lacewing, I picked it up on its wings with big flat tweezers, put it on a piece of paper and slightly pushed it against the rough surface until the legs grabbed onto it and positioned themselves somewhat naturally.
It was a bit fiddly because all I have with me are those tweezers - which I also used as a sort of specimen holder, again grabbing onto the wings;

[Marcepstein]

Number 2 is awesome!

[rjlittlefield]

This is in fact a dead lacewing, I picked it up on its wings with big flat tweezers, put it on a piece of paper and slightly pushed it against the rough surface until the legs grabbed onto it and positioned themselves somewhat naturally.

Aha!

So, a dead but fresh specimen being held in midair by tweezers outside the frame -- elegant and effective.

Somehow I never think to wonder what might be going on just outside the frame...

--Rik