2mm Mushrooms

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:08 pm

These are very tiny mushrooms that pop up every once in a while on one of my miniature orchids. They only last about a day and then they are gone..This time I decided to take a photo of them. The first shot is a general location shot and the second photo is a stack of 42 images to get some DOF on them. The heads are around 2mm in Diameter, maybe a little less.

First Picture
1/50
F6.3

Second Picture
42 picture stack HF
1/40
F6.3

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:36 pm

Some really good close ups of them Doug, you even managed to capture a few drops of water on them and the mosses they are among. You know they almost look like myxo's.

I am getting a kick out of my little terrarium. I may just go and get a very large fish tank and make a reall nice one with landscaping and some ferns, I like ferns, and put in a pond.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:51 pm

Doug, you've been showing us some deep stacks, and I can't seem to recall what your system is.

Tell us again how you do 42 closely spaced shots suitable for stacking?

Thanks,
--Rik

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:02 pm

Thanks Guys for the comments. Rik, what I am doing is basicly the same as you, I bought a macro rail http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/control ... ype=search in this case I set the camera in manual focus, I focused on the wood in the background and pulled the camera back with the rail until I am focusing on the wood on the left. The rail has no scale so I just try and move the knob a steady distance, probably 1-2mm at a time. I tried to take the picture without the rail and one mushroom was always out of focus with little DOF

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:25 pm

That works! Thanks for the clarification.

--Rik

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:40 pm

Great job Doug!

That Helicon Focus is a really cool thing. By the way, is it Tillandsia plant on the first photo?

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:26 am

Your right Nikola, that is a Tillandsia plant. I actually brought this one back from Costa Rica when it was a wee little thing (don`t tell anyone)

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:37 am

Used to know a dealer in the UK who sold Bromeliads and he reckoned he superglued them to the bit of wood to get them started!

DaveW