Re: RNorman get yerass out here and answer my question dammit

On Jan 10, 1:03 pm, Helllllppp <edwardtbabin...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 10, 2:43 pm, rnorman <rnor...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The technique for taking really good pictures is to kill the beastie
and then pose it in a way that shows exactly what you are looking
at.   That is how Audubon drew all those birds.  Read about

That's difficult to do. Luck of the draw. Sometimes they come out
good, and sometimes bad. I may deal in as many as 50 videos for one
microscope slide. I have to get them while the getting is good. The
trick with the microscope I have to work with (beggars can't be
choosy), is to have no more than probably a single drop of water (let
the water on the slide  evaporate, then start filming). The light
makes it through.http://akashiwo-sanguinea.blogspot.com/2008/10/akashiwo-sanguinea-pho...
Is one example of better photography. I have around 20+ blogs,
dedicated to individual diatoms and dinoflagellates.

A couple shots from that post (this one is the dinoflagellate
"Akashiwo sanguinea" also from salt water.

1.http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SP6upvaK1nI/AAAAAAAAA1g/RyOkPsc....

2.http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dvbHH5KkRSU/SP6tmzJ6jqI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/5psh28o....

Not bad, but it was because I lucked out.

macrophotography and make sure you control depth of focus so that the
entire field is all crisp and clean and well focussed.  Really good
illuminators can be rather pricey but are essential for good
photography.

I'm one of those conventional 'po folks who prefer improvising over
investments.

However there are far superior ways to get good photos. You need high
quality depression slides, the kind with a perfectly optically clear
bottom. Then you cover the thing with a cover slip. Or else you put
the specimen on a standard microscope slide and use a few pieces of
broken cover slip as spacers so the the top cover slip doesn't crush
everything. Of course, the space between the slide and the top cover
slip must be completely aqueous (saltwater in your case). If you kill
them (or just wait until they die), then you can get really good
pictures. There is no particular virtue in your videos when you can't
see the cellular details necessary for identification.

As for the wasps, there are simple and inexpensive ways of netting
them and then using a variety of killing jars to get specimens you can
safely identify without the problem of movement or stings. You are
not dealing with precious conserved and endangered species so the loss
of a few or a few dozen individuals is no big deal.

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