Turtle - Tiny: This is the tiny preserved turtle from the Bill (newtoyou) collection that I staged for a focus stacking session with the 85mm 1X-5X macro lens. I dialed in the amount...

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is the tiny preserved turtle from the Bill (newtoyou) collection that I staged for a focus stacking session with the 85mm 1X-5X macro lens. I dialed in the amount of magnification to the point where the the subject filled the frame so no cropping would be required.

This lens has a very long working distance so I illuminated the turtle closely from both sides with diffused LED lamps and from above and below with variable power fiber optic lighting. I placed a piece of black felt a distance behind the subject to create the black background.

I did darken the eyes of the dearly departed turtle which is as hard as a rock and those "dead eyes" were a bit disturbing looking at me.

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Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

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EnglishBrenda Loc: Kent, England

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

sippyjug104 wrote:

This is the tiny preserved turtle from the Bill (n... (show quote)

The eyes look much better with the touch up method you used.
Field guides, particularly the fish guides, that use alcohol preserved specimens, would benefit from it. The dead eye took is a bit disturbing.
There are starting to be midges and other small flies at the entrance lights to the condo. Soon a major hatch of midges is due. They are a harbinger of spring and an important item in the food chain of many birds and insects. I have seen them piled under lights, dead, and in volumn enough to fill a couple bushel baskets.
Harmless, but they get into everything, just by sheer number.
Good day, Gary, all.
Bill

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

raymondh wrote:

Thanks for viewing.

CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC

sippyjug104 wrote:

This is the tiny preserved turtle from the Bill (n... (show quote)

Sippy, excellent.

Greg

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

newtoyou wrote:

The eyes look much better with the touch up method... (show quote)

Thanks, Bill. This is your tiny turtle and I've used a few different views of it before although not a full frontal view. The dead eyes were quite distracting so I took the liberty to put some black into them along with a little trap light. Now it stares at me. I don't know which is the most troublesome.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

CLF wrote:

Sippy, excellent.

Greg

Thanks, Greg. Just something a bit different.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

sippyjug104 wrote:

Thanks, Bill. This is your tiny turtle and I've used a few different views of it before although not a full frontal view. The dead eyes were quite distracting so I took the liberty to put some black into them along with a little trap light. Now it stares at me. I don't know which is the most troublesome.

In life they are smaller than you have made them.
The one I have, taken at the same time, is not much, if any, larger a year later. These are a slow growing animal with a long life span.
I will see about getting a one to one shot to you.
Try out the camera and arm system, with which I am very pleased and growing more pleased.
Bill

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

newtoyou wrote:

In life they are smaller than you have made them.
The one I have, taken at the same time, is not much, if any, larger a year later. These are a slow growing animal with a long life span.
I will see about getting a one to one shot to you.
Try out the camera and arm system, with which I am very pleased and growing more pleased.
Bill

Thanks, Bill. I'll edit the size of the eyes as well as put the protective eyelid on it.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

sippyjug104 wrote:

Thanks, Bill. I'll edit the size of the eyes as well as put the protective eyelid on it.

The nictitating membrane, I believe.
In many 'lower' animals for various reasons.
Bill

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

newtoyou wrote:

The nictitating membrane, I believe.
In many 'lower' animals for various reasons.
Bill

Bill, strange that you would mention that. I recently read that the "little bit of pink flesh" in the corner of our eyes is a remnant of that left over from our evolution. The "Second Eyelid" from days gone by.