| 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 goes tigrinus taxonomy:binomial=goes tigrinus taxonomy:binomial=goestigrinus goes tigrinus goestigrinus texture organic pattern depth of field pattern photo border 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 |