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A common and large leafcutting bee from Maine, collected by Brianne Du Clos. This is a male and note the large expanded tarsal segments on the front legs. These are used to hide the females eyes during mating. Dejen Mengis is the photographer and Elizabeth Garcia did the shopping.
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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:

Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World
www.qbookshop.com/products/216627/9780760347386/Bees.html...

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

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MOON 98% Illumination - Waxing Gibbous
Canon SX60 HS -

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Black Friday morning 4.00 am

Dies Passionis Domini -
Black Friday Langfredag
Karfreitag Viernes Santo Vendredi saint
Sant Venerdí
Stillfreedag Charfrytig Nagypéntek Goede Vrijdag
Sexta-feira Santa Divendres Sant Kutsal Cuma Μεγάλη Παρασκευή

Beleuchtungsgrad 98 %
distance 404.000 km
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Places / Germany / Baden-Wurttemberg / Bonlanden
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the elaborated RAW
captures ( using my pre-defined C1 preset)

were much better than "snapshots" with JPEG file format!

- sharper, with more details and "no" noise!

- you could see even the smallest lunar craters.


RAW converted by
Fastone Image Viewer
raw size 150 % to 2048 standard
postprocessing

- more shadows
- black and white
- usm sharper 1.7 17
- denoised
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comments:

The moon was very bright in this night
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AF PointManual AF point selection
Canon Exposure Mode Program AE
Preset C1 - for RAW shooting

Exif data Camera
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
Exposure 0.01 sec (1/101)
Aperture f/6.5

Focal Length 247 mm - aka 1365 mm
ISO Speed 320, fixed
Exposure Bias - 1/3 EV

Self Timer 10 s
Quality RAW
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Tripod, Dreibein
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image Stabilization On (2)
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File Number 663-1781
Color Temp Measured 5013

B&W - Polfilter - polarizer

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Milano - 2015

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