Spectacular stacks of water fleas

Starshade · Post by **Starshade** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:09 am

Shells of microscopic crustaceans are absolutely amazing,

An ostracod, crossed polarizers 10x. 8 pics

Ceriodaphnia, DF, crossed polarizers, stack of 40+ pics, 20x lens. It war a challenge as the flea was moving, I took around 300 pictures to make the stacking possible, I made 2 stacks and stitched them. The other problem was the shell can be deformed, so in some cases I had to use warp in photoshop to "fix" the shape.

Same flea under 10x, 17 pictures stacked and I deliberately didn't do the top to show the inner parts. I also made semi-transparent some of the surface to reveal even more inside.

Cactusdave · Post by **Cactusdave** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:11 am

That second picture is lovely. Great work.

Simon W · Post by **Simon W** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:45 am

Yes excellent, great lighting

Starshade · Post by **Starshade** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:20 am

Thank you guys,

Just in case anyone interested, I have a blog where I post about microscopic stuff and that's the post where I showed these pics http://notes-from-dreamworlds.blogspot. ... ceans.html, you can see them in bigger size and a couple of other shots.

Litonotus · Post by **Litonotus** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:48 pm

the one in DIC (not posted here) is outstanding too.

Simon W · Post by **Simon W** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:58 pm

Beautiful blog, bookmarked!

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:21 am

Nice work!

Rogelio

lauriek · Post by **lauriek** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:28 am

Another lovely set!