Focus Stacked Image of a Weevil
May 25, 2022 21:17:42 #
This is a focus-stacked image of a very, very tiny flower weevil that I found it eating the pollen of a dandelion. It was so small that I had to stick the insect mounting pin into the tube of stick glue to get it tacky enough that I could get the weevil to stick to the pin when I touched it.
I staged this session using the Nikon 5X Tool Maker Measuring Microscope objective extended on a bellows as the optic for the camera. Two IKEA LED desk lamps diffused through vellum tracing paper were used for the illumination. There were 255-images in the stack taken at a distance of 15-microns between shots and processed in Zerene Stacker to produce this final image.
I staged this session using the Nikon 5X Tool Maker Measuring Microscope objective extended on a bellows as the optic for the camera. Two IKEA LED desk lamps diffused through vellum tracing paper were used for the illumination. There were 255-images in the stack taken at a distance of 15-microns between shots and processed in Zerene Stacker to produce this final image.
May 25, 2022 21:32:13 #
May 25, 2022 21:35:05 #
r1ch wrote:
Very Nice. Great detail and sharpness through the whole visible image
Thanks, R1ch. It's nice to know that you enjoyed viewing it.
May 25, 2022 21:45:25 #
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May 25, 2022 23:31:13 #
kpmac wrote:
Another from the master. Great work, sippy.
Thanks, Kpmac. I'm humbled by your reply.
May 25, 2022 23:38:59 #
May 26, 2022 01:00:18 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
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Once again, an amazing image of an insect I have never seen! Beside the resulting image, amazing are also the technical stuff and the long lasting "work" involved: 255 photos to obtain ca. 3.8 mm more DOF!incredible!
May 26, 2022 01:05:28 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
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Super detail in download. Thanx for sharing!
May 26, 2022 05:30:03 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
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Hi Gary, great shots but you lost me after, "I staged this session....."!
Can you post a pic of your oft mentioned IKEA desk lamps? It sounds like an effective reasonably priced means of additional illumination.
Thanks,
Rich
May 26, 2022 05:31:31 #
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May 26, 2022 07:35:21 #
Amazing structure in such a small creature, beautifully captured! I am awed at the incomprehensible diversity in God's creation—large, small, and really tiny.
May 26, 2022 07:52:06 #
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