Pear rust
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Pear rust
I was brought a leaf from a pear tree with a fungal gall, caused by Gymnosporangium, probably sabinae. It seems to be very common this year, I've seen better specimens since taking these pics.
It creates little "lanterns" on the pear leaf from which spores are dispersed, which in winter transfer to a juniper host species.
(I found a nice article about it which seems to have resubmerged into the google mire. If I find it again I'll post a link!)
Leaf underside, so this is "upside down". Field width about 12mm. From about 50 frames.
Crop from above, 1200px reduced to 1000
Field width about 3.8mm. From about 140, though half have little interest as there's not enough fibres in the back of the "lantern" - needs a better specimen.
Edit - not the link I sought but good.. Life Cycle on page 18:
http://ex-epsilon.slu.se:8080/archive/0 ... chelor.pdf
It creates little "lanterns" on the pear leaf from which spores are dispersed, which in winter transfer to a juniper host species.
(I found a nice article about it which seems to have resubmerged into the google mire. If I find it again I'll post a link!)
Leaf underside, so this is "upside down". Field width about 12mm. From about 50 frames.
Crop from above, 1200px reduced to 1000
Field width about 3.8mm. From about 140, though half have little interest as there's not enough fibres in the back of the "lantern" - needs a better specimen.
Edit - not the link I sought but good.. Life Cycle on page 18:
http://ex-epsilon.slu.se:8080/archive/0 ... chelor.pdf
Chris, I like the first image quite a bit--though I'm partial to depictions of plant pathogens that show them very realistically and effectively in situ--something that seems more rare than it should be.
Nice conveyance of the size, shape, and 3-D structure of this organism. Your choice of soft light really seems to work for this.
So which of your lenses was in use, here? Canon MPE-65? 105 Printing Nikkor?
--Chris
Nice conveyance of the size, shape, and 3-D structure of this organism. Your choice of soft light really seems to work for this.
So which of your lenses was in use, here? Canon MPE-65? 105 Printing Nikkor?
--Chris
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Excellent work, London Chris!
And I am with the American Chris: More details on lens and lighting, please!
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And I am with the American Chris: More details on lens and lighting, please!
--Betty
Phew, I really have to be careful that I don't end up in a crisis of confusion with so many Chrises around here !
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First is MP-E on D600/t3i, auto flash on camera, angled sheet of tissue paper as flash target/diffuser, Pmax (some Dmap might have improved it).
Last is Nikon 5x(0.13 I think) inf objective, single flash, paper tissue diffuser, paper reflector.
I don't think any reasonable optics would have looked much different here.
Usual post processing - nothing special, though that might mean a dozen quick tweaks.
Last is Nikon 5x(0.13 I think) inf objective, single flash, paper tissue diffuser, paper reflector.
I don't think any reasonable optics would have looked much different here.
Usual post processing - nothing special, though that might mean a dozen quick tweaks.
Sorry, I'm short by one treeI'm partial to depictions of plant pathogens that show them very realistically and effectively in situ
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The rotating one might be a good place to use Stack Selected, stopping just short of focusing that background leaf. But I emphasize "might". My track record is pretty bad for predicting whether I'll actually like what I see even though it seemed like a good thing to try.
In either case, both the rotation and the stereo work well for me. No doubts at all what the 3D structure is.
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In either case, both the rotation and the stereo work well for me. No doubts at all what the 3D structure is.
--Rik
Stack Selected is what I had in mind, for the background of the stereo; followed by a visit to Photoshop for blurring/darkening/desaturating, before "putting it back". (Remembering to turn off "brightening" correction in Preferences).
The rocky one would probably need them all doing individually in a batch process.
This is one where an "extra stopped down" frame at stack-end might give an odd-looking result.
The background of the third image in the original post was at about effective f/80, so it had some dust showing on it!
The rocky one would probably need them all doing individually in a batch process.
This is one where an "extra stopped down" frame at stack-end might give an odd-looking result.
The background of the third image in the original post was at about effective f/80, so it had some dust showing on it!