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House Fly Macro
Here is some serious macro-photography starting with the housefly Neva trapped for me in the kitchen! What a wife!!! Catching bugs for me!!!!!!
The fly took a trip to the "jar of death" and then a nice bath in the Ultra-sonic bath I bought as a result of watching a video on how to prepare your specimens. Look how clean it is! Before the bath, it was covered in all sorts of dust, pollen, and assorted detritus.
All images are "photo stacks" of at least 50 images and then processes into one image in Helicon Stacker.
Nikon 105mm Macro Lens at 1:1
Both cropped to size. Pretty good even with a big crop!
Now... let's get serious! WeMacro Raynox DCR 150 tube lens (Pro) with a 4x microscope eyepiece over an inverted Raynox 150 lens. No cropping, super detail!!! Stack of 60 images.
Now...flat out crazy!!! With the 10x eyepiece. NO cropping
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Shot with a Nikon Z6 II on a WeMacro Rail which is step motor controled using a Windows program.
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100 image stack at 50 microns (mu) step length (the distance the camera moves between each shot. (FYI... a human hair is 80 microns wide!)
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Lens was a 10x Plan Objective (microscope lens) mounted on the WeMacro Raynox 150 Tube (Pro).
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Used 2 Godox 12 flashes with a 3 sec. delay.
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Helicon B, Radius 12, Smoothing 2 for the stack into 1 final image
Now...full bore...I'm going bat-assed crazy this winter! But it is kind of fun!
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