Mayfly nymph

[Charles Krebs]

1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 are (partially) crossed polarizers in brightfield. 4 and 7 are DIC.

With these I find the respiratory system and "tails" most interesting.

Olympus BHS, Olympus S Plan Apo 4/0.16. Brightfield with partially crossed polarizers. 22 image stack.


Olympus BHS, Olympus S Plan Apo 4/0.16. Brightfield with partially crossed polarizers. 12 image stack.


Olympus BHS, Olympus S Plan Apo 10/0.40. Brightfield with partially crossed polarizers. 20 image stack.



Olympus BHS, Olympus S Plan Apo 10/0.40. DIC illumination. 23 image stack.



Olympus BHS, Olympus S Plan Apo 10/0.40. Brightfield with partially crossed polarizers. 35 image stack.



Olympus BHS, Olympus S Plan Apo 10/0.40. Brightfield with partially crossed polarizers. 28 image stack.



Olympus BHS, Olympus S Plan Apo 10/0.40. DIC illumination (DIsney Chrome in this case ). 28 image stack.

[curt0909]

All great. My favorites are the first and last.

[pierre]

A top work !

Impressive view of the internals.

Thanks for the share.

[Jacek]

Great series, you are unbeatable

[Cactusdave]

Great work, I love the first image. Are these stacked or is the depth due to judicious use of the aperture diaphragm? There is a quality of sharpness and solidity in these images and those from Jacek, that I much admire and envy.

[Planapo]

Lovely!
As I have a better understanding and a little practical experience of how DIC is set-up and working now , I'd think that you've stacked the last one with the upper prism moved between single shots?

--Betty

[Franz Neidl]

I like very much the first picture. It is looking like an extraterrestrial animal, maybe coming from Mars (not yet discovered from "Curiosity").

My questions: What objective did you use for the first picture: probably 4x,
but planapo, apo , fluor, achromatic ecc. ? It is a stack with how many pictures?

Franz

[canonian]

Wonderful, Charles.
You keep raising the bar and you are a great inspiration to us all.
About the last one: a real winner for next months pm.net frontpage.

[RogelioMoreno]

Beautiful set!

Rogelio

[abpho]

Simply amazing.

[Ecki]

Very nice.The depth of field of the first DIC image is amazing.

[Wim van Egmond]

Beautiful! But that is not surprising.

Wim

[Charles Krebs]

Thanks all for the kind remarks!

Dave and Franz....
I've gone back and added some info to each picture. The first two are with the Olympus 4/0.16 S Plan Apo; and all are from "stacks".

Betty...

I'd think that you've stacked the last one with the upper prism moved between single shots?

Good guess, and I wish that were the case . Unfortunately this is the result of a troubling aspects of my DIC set-up. With the 10X is it very difficult to get a homogenous background, both in terms of color and density. With a "grey" background I can tweak the DIC settings to get a useable result. But when the slider is dialed up into the "colors" it is hard to avoid a multi-color background. In this shot I just decided to "use it" since it made an interesting result with the geometry of the subject.

While the polarizers and DIC make for interesting results with the subject in the last three shots, I think I actually prefer the results from "plain old" brightfield and darkfield done a while ago (see what you think...):
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... php?t=8400

[fpelectronica]

! Very very nice !
Francisco

[carlos.uruguay]

Magical images!
carlos