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Series of shots of an interestingly marked and dented harlequin ladybird. Focus stacked using zerene stacker. I purposely focus stacked the foreground in some of the shots.
After taking two shot sequences the ladybird got fed up and started wandering around so I gave it a drop of honey which it promptly buried it's nose in.

Brian V.

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Nov 16, 2009 at 08:47 AM

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p.1 #2 · Harlequin ladybird

lovely shots!!!
honey always attracts them!

Nov 16, 2009 at 11:01 AM

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p.1 #3 · Harlequin ladybird

Man, I wish I could get my specular highlights to look like yours, Brian. Excellent light control!

Kenny

Nov 16, 2009 at 12:04 PM

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p.1 #4 · Harlequin ladybird

Wonderful sequence Brian

I thought they were carnivores -good to know that they can be baited with sugar!

Nov 16, 2009 at 12:06 PM

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p.1 #5 · Harlequin ladybird

Hi Brian,
Did you say that these pics are only two images stacked together in Zerene?
I thought that 'stacking' involved multiple ( a lot more than two) images that were taken focused very closely together? Is there a difference in the focus distance for your two-shot images?
Sorry mate, you seem to cop nearly all my questions. . . .
Bruce

Nov 16, 2009 at 12:24 PM

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p.1 #6 · Harlequin ladybird

Thanks for the comments everyone

John - I'd seen ladybirds licking the honey/sugar spray i use so thought honey might work - I guess aphids are a bit like bags of dilute honey

Bruce - didn't mention how many pics but think these are between 3 and 7 shots. I do quite often only stack 2 shots though just to get a bit more DOF. Re the focus - I use fixed focus and move the camera a little in between shots judging the movement in the viewfinder so the next slightly oof part is in clean focus.

Brian V.

Nov 16, 2009 at 03:27 PM

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p.1 #7 · Harlequin ladybird

v.nice esp nos 1 and 2

Nov 17, 2009 at 03:35 PM

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p.1 #8 · Harlequin ladybird

Gotta watch those "dents"... plant stem traffic can be brutal!

Wonderful images Brian.

Regards,

Chad

Nov 17, 2009 at 04:29 PM

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p.1 #9 · Harlequin ladybird

studio37 wrote:
Gotta watch those "dents"... plant stem traffic can be brutal!

Wonderful images Brian.

Regards,

Chad

Thanks Chad

- must admit it's difficult to imagine how they do get dented bodywork but it's not uncommon.
Brian v.

Nov 18, 2009 at 07:52 AM

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