I took these earlier in the week while camping in the Alvord Desert. I was really happy with how they turned out and I'd love to see what this group would do with them. I'll share a couple of my edits in the comments.
Took this photo Monday night/Tuesday morning around 2am. This was a single shot, 10-second exposure, 6400 ISO, shot on a Sony a7RV, with a 20mm f1.4 Sigma lens. I took more than 600 photos over the course of the night, and this is one of my favorite single shots. I plan to do some stacking with some of the others. The gear photo was taken with a Pixel 9 Pro in Night Sight mode.
I took a road trip down to SE Oregon last weekend. Rented a bunkhouse at Alvord Hot Springs, and spent a couple hours Monday night photographing the Milky Way. The Alvord Desert has some of the darkest skies in the US and provides some fantastic views of the nigh sky. I highly recommend making the trip out there. It's a long drive, but there's a lot to see.
I was guessing a Thin-legged Wolf Spider of some kind, but some guy on iNaturalist suggested a Meshweaver. Help me out.
Found several of these guys today. This was the only one who would stay still for a photo. Second image is a Sweat Bee I found that I'm pretty sure was lunch for one of these guys.
Location: Washington state
A couple of ground beetles and a juvenile millipede
Pill Bug
A baby stone centipede
A cutworm, I think
The belly of that potential cutworm
Found these all in my backyard this afternoon after moving some lumber. Photographed with A7RV and Sony 100mm f2.8 Macro
It's dandelion season and I was playing around stacking some photos. Shot on a7RV with Sony f2.8/100mm Macro.
Random Notes. Some of these around 200 shots and stacked in Zerene. That's way too many. The widest bracket width on the a7RV's focus bracketing feature is not wide enough.
In that first shot, the dandelion is almost fully in tact, but because I only included photos in the stack that were focused on the center, the foreground fronds (?) almost completely disappear. I thought that was pretty cool.
I usually use DMap as my base layer in Zerene, but with all the small overlapping pappi (Plural of pappus. I just looked it up) PMax just did a much better job. Even so, you can really see a lot of artifacting.
When shooting something so light, air movement can kill you. I tried to keep it calm, but there was movement, and you can definitely see it in some of these.