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Radazz
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Fire Ant

#1 Post by Radazz » Sat Mar 23, 2019 8:55 pm

Olympus SZ40 zoom 1.5 Amscope MD500 camera POL slightly uncrossed
TRIARCH slide ZK 8-331
Fire Ant Worker w.m.

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Radazz
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Re: Fire Ant

#2 Post by geo_man » Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:08 pm

wow, very nice! i got stung by lots off those when i lived near Houston.

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Re: Fire Ant

#3 Post by billbillt » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:47 pm

A vicious breed...

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Re: Fire Ant

#4 Post by einman » Thu Mar 28, 2019 4:31 pm

Nice. How did you mount your specimen? Ow did you utilize the polarized light? equipment? I have not tried polarized lighting. I have played around with photomacrography and plan on doing more once my lab is back up. Here is one of a fruitfly using a Nikon SMZ-U.

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Here is one of a carpenter ant.

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I have posted some pics in the past. I hope to delve into it more this year. Specifically with the Dacetines and Attas.

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#5 Post by Radazz » Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:39 pm

Hello Einman.
I purchased the slide,along with a slide of a queen. I don’t know what medium was used.

Photo was shot on my Olympus SZ40 stereo scope. Analyzer is a camera filter that is attached to the ring light coller, and the slide sits on a small polarazed holder I made that I can slide around on the ground glass for composition adjusting the analyzer to maintain crossed polarizers.

Really nice pictures, BTW.
Radazz
Arnold, Missouri
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Olympus BX40
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Re: Fire Ant

#6 Post by Radazz » Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:46 pm

Just thinking out loud, but has anyone tried setting the subject in front of a backlit sheet of polarized material, and put a polarized filter on the camera? I know this is probably how they do the stress in plexiglass photography.

Not sure how this might work with a live subject.

Bwahahahaha more experiments!

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Re: Fire Ant

#7 Post by einman » Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:23 pm

Hmm.. I will have to try polarized lighting sometime. Would be interesting to determine if night flying species vary vs daytime etc.

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