Focus Stacked Image of a Fly Compound Eye
Dec 6, 2021 14:50:08 #
This morning was maintenance and an "arts and crafts" day. I cleaned the camera sensor with a wet-mop kit, inspected it with an illuminated sensor magnifying tool to assure that it was clean and free of streaks.
Did a quick hippity-hop to the Hobby Lobby and picked up several sheets of "Beetle Black Crushed Velvet Scrapbook Paper" (SKU 982348) that I use to flock my lenses and adapters. I also use black velvet sheets that are adhesive-backed that I get there as well. The Beetle Black Crushed Velvet is a goto material that is used by others here as well as those on other macro-micro forums.
I rolled a piece of the Beetle Black (black side in) to make a lens hood to eliminate any fugitive light that might affect the quality of the image. Stray light will result in softness and haze so it is best to eliminate it.
Of course, I had to try it all out so I mounted the 28mm enlarger lens with its DIY hood onto the Vivitar 2X macro focus teleconverter and attached it to the fully extended bellows and staged this preserved green bottle fly for a focus stacking session of its compound eye.
Did a quick hippity-hop to the Hobby Lobby and picked up several sheets of "Beetle Black Crushed Velvet Scrapbook Paper" (SKU 982348) that I use to flock my lenses and adapters. I also use black velvet sheets that are adhesive-backed that I get there as well. The Beetle Black Crushed Velvet is a goto material that is used by others here as well as those on other macro-micro forums.
I rolled a piece of the Beetle Black (black side in) to make a lens hood to eliminate any fugitive light that might affect the quality of the image. Stray light will result in softness and haze so it is best to eliminate it.
Of course, I had to try it all out so I mounted the 28mm enlarger lens with its DIY hood onto the Vivitar 2X macro focus teleconverter and attached it to the fully extended bellows and staged this preserved green bottle fly for a focus stacking session of its compound eye.
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Dec 6, 2021 17:08:37 #
kpmac wrote:
Nobody better to do insect eye closeups. Great stack, sippy.
Thanks for the kind reply, Kpmac.
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JeffDavidson wrote:
Wonderful and interesting as usual.
Thanks, Jeff. It's nice to know that you enjoyed seeing it.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:00:11 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Nice shot Sippy, it make me dizzy
Thanks, Curmudgeon. Mother Nature is quite good at creating geometric designs.
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sb wrote:
Wow! Very well done. "Are you lookin' at ME"????
Thanks, SB. And thanks for the memories of that iconic line from one of the classic movies of all time.
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