Euglena phacus

Marek Mis · Post by **Marek Mis** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:24 am

20 X CZJ apochromat, Lumipan - old CZJ microscope
Phase contrast
HF stacked
Background improved in PSE 7

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:01 am

Very nice image. How are you guys getting such good color in your images? What I see seems to have little color at all. Matbe they just don't have any. Do you use filters?

Marek Mis · Post by **Marek Mis** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:01 pm

Mitch640,

No filters, just phase contrast. But after taking the photograph I had to improve it in PSE because of very weak contrast. I looked at the histogram and improved it if about darks and whites, and that's it. After that I improved the background because of a lot of debris around the Phacus (handy - a lot of work and patience). I know that some of images with cleaned the background up in this way look slightly artifficially, but I prefer it instead of disturbing debris.

Regards
Marek