More from the Wood Floor

I spent the whole of last weekends free time, rummaging around in the wood floor at Ramsdown Forest, looking for more springtails and other small things that live there.  The leaf litter and under rotting sticks and logs is where I search for these creatures, and they are there in numbers – even if they do take some spotting at first.

Like last week I found some globular springtails again to photograph – and this time video!

As well as these, I came across what I think is a type of centipede, beetle larvae and mating wolf spiders.

Firstly onto the video – which I took on my Canon 5d MkIV at 4k.  I used my Canon MPE-65mm as the lens at around 3x magnification.  I supported the camera and lens on some foam material that I had handy to steady the video.  I used some LED lights to put some light on the subjects.

Next up the best of the stills I took of the globular springtails.

Dicyrtoma fusca
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Dicyrtoma fusca
Dicyrtomina saundersi
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Dicyrtomina saundersi
In the globby countryside
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
In the globby countryside
One step forward
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
One step forward
Just globbing along
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Just globbing along
Woah that looks steep
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Woah that looks steep
Mind the Globby Gap
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Mind the Globby Gap
Wee purple one
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Wee purple one
Surfin Globby A
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Surfin Globby A
The mean one
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
The mean one
Along the woodcliff
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Along the woodcliff
Globby close!
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Globby close!
Heading for the hole ?
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Heading for the hole ?

And now their relations – firstly head on – an elongated bodied Springtail.

Elongated Looking at you
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Elongated Looking at you

And side on.

Elongated bodied Springtail
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Elongated bodied Springtail

The first other interesting thing that I came across apart from the springtails was this beetle larvae.  Which I firstly took a 3 image stack of, which I processed later in Photoshop.

 

Beetle Larvae Stack
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Beetle Larvae Stack

And then took 5 images in a panorama ( higher magnification – so more frames to get it all in) which I also processed in Photoshop CC.

Beetle Larvae MacroPano
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Beetle Larvae MacroPano

Onto this centipede, at least that is what I thought it was – firstly a stack (of 4 images) processed in Helicon Focus.

Centipede Head
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/9, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Centipede Head

And another processed in Photoshop CC (8 images).

Centipede Stack
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Centipede Stack

And Finally this composite (stacked) image of mating Wolf Spiders.  Processed in Helicon Focus ( 7 images )

Mating Wolf Spiders
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (65mm, f/11, 1/200 sec, ISO200)
Mating Wolf Spiders

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