Between the bubbles.
Taken with 35mm macro on Olympus e520 - magnification 1:1 or 1:1.5
Washing up liquid
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Washing up liquid
These drove me round the bend. First I tried children's bubbles that I bought and couldn't see any colours no matter what I did. I resorted to washing up liquid. I tried a silver ring thing I have balanced on two mugs on a south facing window sill. Best results though were with a glass with black cardboard underneath... on the window sill. Pics are cropped because of the fall off in dof.... which was blurry and also without colour in some cases.
Between the bubbles.
Taken with 35mm macro on Olympus e520 - magnification 1:1 or 1:1.5
Between the bubbles.
Taken with 35mm macro on Olympus e520 - magnification 1:1 or 1:1.5
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Aynia,
Nice images! I'm sure it's a challenge to get the whole plane in focus at once. Stacking won't work because of the movement, as you suggested. If you have the right kind of bellows, you could use tilts and the Scheimpflug principle to do it. The setup that DaveW linked at http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art ... bbles.html seems to do it just by stopping down enough. I presume that setup has a powerful flash so they can stop down all the way and still get enough light.
Switching subjects... Gerd posted a reply here with one of his images in it. We admins split it off to a separate topic so as to conform better with the posting guidelines. But just so you don't miss it, it's now HERE.
--Rik
Nice images! I'm sure it's a challenge to get the whole plane in focus at once. Stacking won't work because of the movement, as you suggested. If you have the right kind of bellows, you could use tilts and the Scheimpflug principle to do it. The setup that DaveW linked at http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art ... bbles.html seems to do it just by stopping down enough. I presume that setup has a powerful flash so they can stop down all the way and still get enough light.
Switching subjects... Gerd posted a reply here with one of his images in it. We admins split it off to a separate topic so as to conform better with the posting guidelines. But just so you don't miss it, it's now HERE.
--Rik
Thanks guys. It's great fun to do despite the problems.
Rik, my set up is really minimal at the moment. If I ever get any spare cash etc I'll definitely consider adding stuff. I missed a free adaptor for olympus E series on another forum (because I wasn't a member at the time), so will be on the lookout for freebies or cheapies.!
Will definitely have more goes at this with different setups!
Rik, my set up is really minimal at the moment. If I ever get any spare cash etc I'll definitely consider adding stuff. I missed a free adaptor for olympus E series on another forum (because I wasn't a member at the time), so will be on the lookout for freebies or cheapies.!
Will definitely have more goes at this with different setups!