Tiger Bee Fly - Xenox tigrinus

AndrewC · Post by **AndrewC** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:10 pm

Another Cape Cod souvenir ...

One of these images has a fault - clue is the size of the specimen.

To get the proboscis extended, I hooked a bent pin over it and left it hanging overnight !

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:42 pm

AndrewC wrote:One of these images has a fault - clue is the size of the specimen.

OK, I give up. I can see some halo in #2, especially around the wingtip at left of image. But I can't get my eye on anything else. What is the size of this specimen, anyway?

--Rik

AndrewC · Post by **AndrewC** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:43 pm

Getting on for 35mm from nose to trailing edge - too big for my lowest mag lens (reversed 80mm) on my bench to get in one shot. I shot two stacks (front half and back half) and then threw them into Autopano Pro. It did a pretty god job but there is a little alignment fault visible half way along the leading edge of the lower wing. Still I was quite impressed with it.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:17 pm

Got it. The glitch is quite subtle. I didn't even think to consider a stitch.

Was #2 shot the same way, or did you figure out how to squeeze it into one frame?

If stitched, then I'd say you got off lucky with respect to parallax error, given how deep that specimen is.

--Rik

AndrewC · Post by **AndrewC** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:11 am

#2 just squeezed in - that's why it's an oblique angle !

APP seems quite accomodating with badly shot pano's, but I was quite surprised how well it came out. I'd love to put together a telecentric rig but don't don't have the time / pieces just now. I do have a Nikon 85mm PC lens for which I'm building a stage.

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:23 am

I do have a Nikon 85mm PC lens

Congrats on your lottery win

AndrewC · Post by **AndrewC** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:30 am

ChrisR wrote:
I do have a Nikon 85mm PC lens
Congrats on your lottery win

Had it for years - back from the days when bankers where trusted and engineers got bonuses .....

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:15 pm

Excellent shots. Your white backgrounds are really effective.

Harold

AndrewC · Post by **AndrewC** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:15 am

Harold Gough wrote:Excellent shots. Your white backgrounds are really effective.

Harold

Thanks - the background (this month) is a slightly off white mottled "art letter paper", the kind you see racks and racks of in art shops for writing expensive letters on !

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:28 am

Andrew,

I'm not sure whether it was to you that I said it before but these people are the leading users of images with white backgrounds:

http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/

Harold

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