Nighttime in the garden - March 2016

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More from the backlog. These were captured at night with my G5 and 45-175, some using a Raynox 250 some using the more powerful Raynox MSN-202, all at f/22 (equivalent to f/45 on full frame). All used a KX800 twin flash,

I don't recall what combination of hand-held and tripod-assisted working I used. If I did use a tripod it would have been hands-on to help with framing shots and capturing sequences of shots. A hands-off, "leave the tripod to settle and use a remote release" approach would not have been practical (for me).

There are 1300 pixel high versions of the 60 images I kept from this session in this album at Flickr.

Processing involved (I'll try to get it right this time):
  • Creating a longlist in Faststone Image Viewer by rejecting obvious non-runners
  • Batch processing the longlist raw files in DXO Optics Pro, output as DNG files
  • Batch processing the DNG files in Silkypix Developer Pro, output as TIFF files
  • First stage shortlisting the TIFF files in Lightroom and applying image-specific adjustments
  • Outputting the shortlisted images from Lightroom as 1300 pixel high JPEGs
  • Reordering and second stage shortlisting in Faststone Image Viewer
  • Quality and consistency review of the shortlist JPEGs in XNView, and for some
    • Adjustments of the TIFF file in Lightroom and reexport as JPEG
    • noise reduction of JPEG background in Nik Dfine
    • rejection
  • renaming the final selection of JPEGs in Faststone Image Viewer
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1063 11 2016_03_22 P1140792_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1063 12 2016_03_22 P1140793_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1063 13 2016_03_22 P1140794_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1063 14 2016_03_22 P1140795_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1063 16 2016_03_22 P1140801_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h-2 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1063 38 2016_03_22 P1140893_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1063 42 2016_03_22 P1140914_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1063 58 2016_03_22 P1150268_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h Df by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


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More amazingly detailed images Nick.
Great work (y)
 
Cobra said:
More amazingly detailed images Nick.
Great work (y)
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Thank you. :)

Dale. said:
Wow, inspiring.

Are 12 and 13 ticks?
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Thanks Dale. I think they probably are ticks, but I'm useless at identifying things - when I try I often get it wrong, so I usually don't risk it. Hopefully someone else can confirm (or correct) the ID.

ChrisA said:
Very cool set - love the springtails.

Think I must give this night thing a go for the first time sometime this year. Very inspiring set.
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Thanks Chris. I've had more luck finding springtails at night than during the day (although I hardly ever find globbies, which is a bit frustrating). Nighttime is good for snails, woodlice and earwigs too. (Well, later in the year anyway.)
 
Very good photos, to find springtails - if other members of the household let you - leave small pieces of wood lying around and they soon appear.
I accidentally left a plant mat upside down and found these there.
EF7A8577redspidermites by davholla2002, on Flickr

NB these practices can create marital discord unless you have a very reasonable wife or a very big garden,
 
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Remarkable images, thanks for sharing them.
 
davholla said:
Very good photos
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Thanks David.

davholla said:
to find springtails - if other members of the household let you - leave small pieces of wood lying around and they soon appear.
I accidentally left a plant mat upside down and found these there.
EF7A8577redspidermites by davholla2002, on Flickr

NB these practices can create marital discord unless you have a very reasonable wife or a very big garden,
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Nice. Are they springtails? Is the one on the right moulting?

We have wood around the garden (we have a fairly large garden, and my wife is fine with dead wood - encourages it in fact.). But still no luck. I was out again last night and didn't see a single springtail. Woodlice and some tiny slugs and snails, but no springtails, mites, ticks and the like.
 
GardenersHelper said:
Thanks David.



Nice. Are they springtails? Is the one on the right moulting?

We have wood around the garden (we have a fairly large garden, and my wife is fine with dead wood - encourages it in fact.). But still no luck. I was out again last night and didn't see a single springtail. Woodlice and some tiny slugs and snails, but no springtails, mites, ticks and the like.
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Sorry I wasn't clear they were velvet mites - which I had never seen before in the garden in almost 10 years (not sure what they were doing). A few weeks of leaving a plant base out and I saw them. One good idea is to pick up all the fallen leaves and search for them. I found quite a few things this way.
 
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