| Keywords: bug bugs bee bees pollinator pollinators animal animals animalia arthropod arthropods arthropoda insect insects insecta hymenoptera aculeata anthophila apoidea apidae apinae bombini bumble bee bumblebee bumble bees bumblebees bombus bombus ternarius bombusternarius taxonomy:binomial=bombus ternarius taxonomy:binomial=bombusternarius outdoor photo border black background Some yellow and orange tushiness from a Bombus ternarius taken during the Adirondack Bioblitz.  In most of New England the only Bumble Bee with significant orange and yellow on its abdomen.  Photoshoping by Thistle Droege photograph by Dejen Mengis.                  ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{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    The murmuring of bees has ceased; But murmuring of some Posterior, prophetic, Has simultaneous come,--   The lower metres of the year, When nature's laugh is done,-- The Revelations of the book Whose Genesis is June.   -Emily Dickinson    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/  Contact information:   Sam Droege   sdroege@usgs.gov 301 497 5840  Some yellow and orange tushiness from a Bombus ternarius taken during the Adirondack Bioblitz.  In most of New England the only Bumble Bee with significant orange and yellow on its abdomen.  Photoshoping by Thistle Droege photograph by Dejen Mengis.                  ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{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    The murmuring of bees has ceased; But murmuring of some Posterior, prophetic, Has simultaneous come,--   The lower metres of the year, When nature's laugh is done,-- The Revelations of the book Whose Genesis is June.   -Emily Dickinson    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/  Contact information:   Sam Droege   sdroege@usgs.gov 301 497 5840 |