sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is a magnified view of the colorful eye of the peacock feather. It is a focus stacked image taken with reversed lenses in series mounted on a Novoflex bellows.

This was more difficult than I had imagined when trying to find the right combination of lighting and aperture setting based on the amount of magnification so there are there are some areas that have a bit of diffraction with this experiment.

I have found that when lenses are reverse mounted that the f/stop setting on the lens and the effective f/stop are quite different. For example, a reversed 50mm 1:1 ratio lens extended 80mm from the end of the lens to the camera sensor set at f/5.6 has an effective f/stop of 20.2 so there is quite of bit of experimenting required at times.

As always, thanks in advance to all who view and for your comments, suggestions, questions and critique.

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newtoyou Loc: Eastport

Someone mentioned a Peacock( my mother's maiden name) so knowing you had some feathers, I knew that it was only a matter of time. And to have a post of a grackle earlier is egg in your beer. Similar reasons for their 'glossy' plumage.
You do the peacocks' feathers' beauty justice.
Bill

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Very nice! Thank you for trying this!

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Bill, this is in fact one of the peacock feathers that you had sent to me so I could not resist doing a session with one of them when Mark suggested it. Mother Nature truly was showing off when she painted the peacocks. I wanted to show how intricate the structure of the feathers are and how they are much different from the Dove feather that I posted yesterday.

I used a bellows on this session so that I could dial in the amount of magnification that would showcase as may colors yet still show the complexity of the feather.

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

Very nice detail.