Last few radiolarians...

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:41 pm

...before moving on to something else. I'm all radiolarianed out for now.

mtuell · Post by **mtuell** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:33 pm

Wow! That's beautiful!

Are you going to keep us in suspense about the nature of the photo? Is it a "wide-field" image of an arrangement, or is each done separately and then put together in a montage in post?

Thanks for the beautiful series! I've got a dry-mounted slide of fossilized radiolaria and diatoms. They can look nice in person, but hard to convey in a photo. Well done!

Mike

Sumguy01 · Post by **Sumguy01** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:28 pm

This is really very good.
Thanks for sharing.

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 12:21 am

Sorry,didn't mean to keep anyone in suspenders. Forms were photographed separately then all loaded into separate layers, masked off and composited together in photoshop. Stack depths ranged from as few as 60 images and up to 180, guessing about 120 each on average. All these came from one small, sparse strew about 12mm diameter.

Lighting was essentially brightfield with a diffuse LED panel behind the strew. Used a 50x mitty running at 33.75x onto the sensor running in APS-C crop mode. All Zerene pmax stacks with no retouching.

GaryB · Post by **GaryB** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 1:02 am

Those things are just plain cool. I have no idea where to find them but your excellent pictures make me want to go looking.

JH · Post by JH » Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:05 am

Troels · Post by **Troels** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:49 am

Theese creatures are beautifull.
Your pictures reminds me of some of the most artistic drawings in old expensive books.

Troels

Harald · Post by **Harald** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 4:34 am

Hi there Beatsy,
This is great. Amazing details and good work.
Thanks for sharing