Shiny mosquito larva and its gills

Starshade · Post by **Starshade** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:51 am

It's an image generated using stack-n-stitch method, around 100 pictures used but can't tell exact numbers as I deleted some intermediate files and have 300 raw pics of this guy.

I couldn't do hair completely because the background had a lot of bright rubbish.

Its gills:

The jaws:

And if you want to see brightfiled versions and the larger version of the first image visit my post: http://notes-from-dreamworlds.blogspot. ... light.html

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:35 pm

I almost said textbook images, but these are better than anything I have seen in any book, including NatGeo. I was glad to see the brightfield set also, as that is all I have access to. Pretty hard to learn anything when most of what you see is DIC in the forum.

abpho · Post by **abpho** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:00 pm

Amazing. I use that word a lot here.

Jan l'Amie · Post by **Jan l'Amie** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:05 am

Great detail.

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:23 am

Beautiful!

What kind of illumination did you use?

regards

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:16 am

awesome shots

arturo

Starshade · Post by **Starshade** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:11 am

Thank you guys!

I used dark-field here, though I personally prefer how it looks like in brightfield, in addition all hair is visible better.

lauriek · Post by **lauriek** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:54 pm

Beautifully done, I thought I was looking at Charles' work for a minute there!

dmillard · Post by **dmillard** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:43 pm

Daniel,

These are magical images, and your website is equally inspiring!

Thanks,
David

lothman · Post by **lothman** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:39 am

the third one is absolute STUNNING!!!

Litonotus · Post by **Litonotus** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:22 am

I will not be original too: OUTSTANDING