MAKE A MEME View Large Image This is a nice Megachile rotundata, but sadly we seem to not have recorded where it was from when we took the picture, nor was our ability to set the picture very sophisticated as you see the pin running out the side. So it goes. Notice the ...
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Keywords: megachile megachilidae taxonomy:binomial=megachile rotundata taxonomy:binomial=megachilerotundata pest introduced alien species alienspecies invasive biml usgsbiml droege sam droege samdroege bee bees insect animal black background photo border macro Clean up time...we are going through our backlog of about 1000 unedited pictures and trying to get them uploaded. This is a nice Megachile rotundata, but sadly we seem to not have recorded where it was from when we took the picture, nor was our ability to set the picture very sophisticated as you see the pin running out the side. So it goes. Notice the distinctive oval on the second tergite that is a slightly different pattern...this is the way you spot this species, now you know one of our secrets. Sierra Williams took the picture and Elizabeth Garcia Shopped it. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~ All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish. 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 Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know " Ode on a Grecian Urn" John Keats You can also follow us on Instagram account USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen: 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/ Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World www.qbookshop.com/products/216627/9780760347386/Bees.html... Contact information: Sam Droege [email protected] 301 497 5840 Clean up time...we are going through our backlog of about 1000 unedited pictures and trying to get them uploaded. This is a nice Megachile rotundata, but sadly we seem to not have recorded where it was from when we took the picture, nor was our ability to set the picture very sophisticated as you see the pin running out the side. So it goes. Notice the distinctive oval on the second tergite that is a slightly different pattern...this is the way you spot this species, now you know one of our secrets. Sierra Williams took the picture and Elizabeth Garcia Shopped it. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~ All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish. 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 Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know " Ode on a Grecian Urn" John Keats You can also follow us on Instagram account USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen: 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/ Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World www.qbookshop.com/products/216627/9780760347386/Bees.html... Contact information: Sam Droege [email protected] 301 497 5840
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