I am still reorganising after I moved house. I hope to post some new images soon, but I still have a lot of images that I have to sort out. So this is a set from last year. A flock of Chroococcus cyanobacteria. The DIC one is perhaps the most stricking but it fails to show the different colours that can be seen in the brightfield. DIC is nice but it is in fact artificial.
Hello Franz, It is normal brightfield. I always expose on the highlights. And in this case I thought it looked a bit like a water colour so I did not give it too much contrast.
Amazing photos Wim and glad to see you posting again!
Did you ever consider to experiment and try to merge images made with different kinds of illumination? Like an HDR, but possibly manually with masking or using refine edge+duplicate layer to other picture. I see it won't work on that particular image though...
I don't think I have tried that. I am not sure if I can think of a combination that would make sense. Although darkfield with polarisation is nice. Combining DIC with brightfield will probably not look that good. But I have made oblique darkfield rheinberg images of radiolarians.
But perhaps someone in the forum can think of something? It would be a nice challenge! Who can create the strangest combination of illumination techniques?