Very beautiful images, Michael!sushidelic wrote:....Illumination was mostly COL (circular oblique) and playing with the polarizers......
Did you enhance the contrast a lot in post and darken the background?
My budget polarizers cannot not provide pure black background when fully crossed. My budget LOMO objectives can resolve very well in COL+pol, but my eyepiece view has never been so contrasty with such black background.
Thank you for sharing!
If you did not say those were taken with COL+pol, I would have guessed you used overhead highly oblique external light with very long exposure.