Euglena

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Euglena

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I found a couple of what I believe to be Euglena in a recent water sample. I am really fascinated by these "shape shifters". Amazing life forms. And colorful. They moved around quite a lot and were very difficult to capture and impossible to stack. I adopted the "spray and prey" method and took a couple of hundred single images. Then I selected these which were the only few I managed to get in decent focus. No stacking, just single images. To freeze the flagella I used an exposure time between 1/2000 and 1/2500. Hence, ISO is quite high, but noise was not too bad. The DIC background was very homogenous between images so I decided to put 4 Euglena on each image and these were selected such that their final location on the image you see was close to their location in the original image. Hence, they melted into background in a natural way without too much adjustment.

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Post by Jacek »

Super !

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Post by sushidelic »

Really good images and certainly a painful but right approach to capture them. I found some Euglenae in a recent pond samples but gave up on taking pictures of them for the reasons you mentioned...

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Michael

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:smt038 Very nice.
Thanks for sharing.

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Post by Johann »

Great job - the last image is awesome!

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Nice!

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Thanks all!
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Very nice images !

Marek

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