A lovely image! One thing, be aware that the image you're showing here is much smaller than recommended for our forum. Our nominal limits are 1024 pixels wide/high and 300 KB in file length. (Images that are hot-linked from other sites can be larger, at some risk of causing problems with page forma...

Hello Micro Friends Todays post is are some moth scales on 50x Magnification ca 180 photos stacked used sony6000 and Nikon Cfplan BD 50x on bellows for the lighting i used 3 speedlight with mid curtain technic i hope you like it Have a Nice day Everyone ! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49920247...

Charles Krebs wrote:Really excellent image!

Thank you so much Charles
Nice to hear that from you im big fan off your work i saw alot images from you @ the the smallworld website that give me the inspiration to start with high Magnification regards marco

Adalbert wrote:Hi Marco,
Very nice!
BTW, I have already seen this picture in FB :-)
BR, ADi

hi Adalbert thank you yess i know in the extreme macrogroup
i was thinking i do here a post but it looks this forum is dead ..

Adalbert wrote:Hi Marco,
Very nice!
BTW, I have already seen this picture in FB :-)
BR, ADi

hi Adalbert thank you ???? yess i know in the extreme macrogroup
i was thinking i do here a post but it looks this forum is dead ????????

Saul wrote:Very nice colors & details !

Thank you so much Saul

Hello everyone my name is Marco from the Netherlands im a longtime activ on this forum but i never post an image here is my first image here i hope you like it :D this scales are made with Nikon CFplan BD 0.55 50x on bellows and Canon 6D camera. sorry for my bad english Regards Marco https://live.st...

Hi Marco Here is the unprocessed image. https://up.picr.de/38312434cc.jpg Kurt Thank you so much for sharing your experience Guppy it gives me more details about the process and lighting i will do some new tests this week and change something about my workflow. i post the results soon here ps also ...

Hi Chris, hi Marco Yes, sorry I made a mistake, the correct histogram in RawDigger looks like this: https://up.picr.de/38133527qt.jpg Kurt Thank you so much Guppy now i now a little bit more you make the stack in raw so you can post processing it more if it is possible too show us the unedit versio...

Hi What should you do if it snows all day outside? Stack what it takes! Wing scales with the NIKON M Plan, 60/0.7 ELWD, 210/0. https://up.picr.de/37955400di.jpg http://files.homepagemodules.de/b649264/f7t3438p26625n2_znqSYKuw.jpg Kamera: Nikon D810 Objektiv: NIKON M Plan, 60/0.7 ELWD, 210/0 Belicht...

Marco, Are you using continuous light or flash? If continuous light, you might want to try using flash instead. (Keep the room dark, so that room light does not contribute to the image. And set your flash to a short duration.) Even if you eventually want to shoot with continuous light, experimentin...

Hello MicroFriends here :D I start this weekend on 50x magnification. I know it's totally different. Now I have a few problems. There are some vibrations. I use vibration pads but there is a tiny vibration when I place 1 elastic on my bellows it reduce I use bellows 1 section extension tube i think ...

Here is one way of achieving dark-ground illumination without a microscope: http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1416_darkgroundilluminator2017aesagm700_2.jpg Inside the 144 LED ring-light is a disk of black card or velvet. The specimen (a slide in this case) rests on a piece of black foam...

Photomicro wrote:A ring light can achieve this quite well, if you get the distance from the subject right. Do this by trial and error.

This was done like this;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/66189529@ ... 783466119/

Thank you for the tips

Pau wrote:What magnification and -more important- NA do you plan to use for dark field?

With high NA could be easier to use a microscope dark field condenser.

5x and 10x magnification i use olympus uplan fln 0.30