Keywords: bug bugs insect insects animal animals animalia arthropod arthropods arthropoda insecta beetle beetles coleoptera longhorn beetle longhornbeetle longhorn beetles longhornbeetles polyphaga long-horned beetle longhornedbeetle long-horned beetles longhornedbeetles chrysomeloidea cerambycidae sawyer trumbule biml usgs droege usgsbiml stackshot zerene stacker zerenestacker antennae bad ass badass taxonomy:binomial=goes tigrinus taxonomy:binomial=goestigrinus goes tigrinus goestigrinus goes white oak borer whiteoakborer black background monochrome White Oak Borer (Goes tigrinus) - larvae live in living white and related oaks - , but which one? Where is a Coleopterist when you need one... Collected by Bob Trumbule, fab entomologist for the state of Maryland in our building (likely because there elements of dead wood present). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photography Information Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 Useful Links to the Techniques We Use: Basic USGSBIML set up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY USGSBIML Photoshopping technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4 PDF of basic USGSBIML photography set up: ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf Google Hangout demonstration of techniques plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo or www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU Excellent Technical Form on Stacking www.photomacrography.net/ Contact information: Sam Droege sdroege@usgs.gov 301 497 5840 White Oak Borer (Goes tigrinus) - larvae live in living white and related oaks - , but which one? Where is a Coleopterist when you need one... Collected by Bob Trumbule, fab entomologist for the state of Maryland in our building (likely because there elements of dead wood present). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photography Information Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 Useful Links to the Techniques We Use: Basic USGSBIML set up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY USGSBIML Photoshopping technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4 PDF of basic USGSBIML photography set up: ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf Google Hangout demonstration of techniques plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo or www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU Excellent Technical Form on Stacking www.photomacrography.net/ Contact information: Sam Droege sdroege@usgs.gov 301 497 5840 |