Eye of the Peacock Feather
Jan 30, 2019 13:12:44 #
It's 2-degrees F today so I am keeping my activities indoors which gives me an opportunity to continue experimenting with a variety of macro techniques. This is a Peacock Feather that Bill sent to me which made an interesting subject. I placed a bit of glycerin on it to create a droplet to catch light and colors.
Peacock Feather 1-30-19 by Herman Munster, on Flickr
Peacock Feather 1-30-19 by Herman Munster, on FlickrJan 30, 2019 14:28:02 #
One of the reasons I have these is that my mother is nee Peacock. So a keepsake. I guess tho, she would have been a peahen. One of my uncles was a true peacock. Handsome, with a strutting, vain manner.
The colors are on the same line as the jumping bristletail scale colors. I have seen males display, ten feet wide and my head high. Impressive.The oil interesting. Wonder if you could mist and get water droplets?
Later, Gary.
The colors are on the same line as the jumping bristletail scale colors. I have seen males display, ten feet wide and my head high. Impressive.The oil interesting. Wonder if you could mist and get water droplets?
Later, Gary.
Jan 30, 2019 14:43:07 #
Bill, thanks for the gifting me the peacock feathers and the tiny shells for my future experiments.
I used a mist of water on my first attempts but by the time the shots finished much of the water droplets had evaporated so I switched to glycerine droplets in my later on which stayed where I put them with a hypodermic needle and they did not evaporate in the ultra low humidity we are experiencing right now.
I used a mist of water on my first attempts but by the time the shots finished much of the water droplets had evaporated so I switched to glycerine droplets in my later on which stayed where I put them with a hypodermic needle and they did not evaporate in the ultra low humidity we are experiencing right now.
Jan 30, 2019 18:03:50 #
Nice detail Gary. I have just enjoyed looking through your flicker images, all very nice and some real crackers like the mantises.
Jan 30, 2019 19:14:45 #
Brenda, thanks for the kind words. I go by the alesis of "Herman Munster" due to a previous identity theft where someone tried to get a refund on my federal income tax returns via my social security number so if that looks strange, that's the reason why I do it.
Sippyjug is a carry over from my fun times at the lake where we would mix a picnic jug of our favorite party beverage and "sip" on it all day long. We called it our Sippyjug. We'd keep count of the number of times someone succumbed to the power of the sippyjug and our last count was 104. Hence, Sippyjug 104.
Paul suggested that I link my posts via Flickr rather than attach them so that's what I started recently to do. That's just one of the great things about UHH is that there are so many folks that are willing to always help as you have done so many times for me.
Sippyjug is a carry over from my fun times at the lake where we would mix a picnic jug of our favorite party beverage and "sip" on it all day long. We called it our Sippyjug. We'd keep count of the number of times someone succumbed to the power of the sippyjug and our last count was 104. Hence, Sippyjug 104.
Paul suggested that I link my posts via Flickr rather than attach them so that's what I started recently to do. That's just one of the great things about UHH is that there are so many folks that are willing to always help as you have done so many times for me.
Jan 31, 2019 10:24:42 #
Interesting.
The iridescent colors of the feather is an example of a 'structural color', where light waves are made to selectively interfere with each other within the feather, so only certain colors can come out of the feather like blue in this case. The colors are also modified a bit by reflection off of conventional pigments. I suspect the iridescent green is from combining iredescent blue + reflection off of yellow pigment.
Very high mag pictures of an iridescent area might be interesting. You would probably see more nuance through the lens than what can be conveyed in a picture, but it would be fun to look into it.
The iridescent colors of the feather is an example of a 'structural color', where light waves are made to selectively interfere with each other within the feather, so only certain colors can come out of the feather like blue in this case. The colors are also modified a bit by reflection off of conventional pigments. I suspect the iridescent green is from combining iredescent blue + reflection off of yellow pigment.
Very high mag pictures of an iridescent area might be interesting. You would probably see more nuance through the lens than what can be conveyed in a picture, but it would be fun to look into it.
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