Merry Christmas and happy new year! Yeasts and mold pictures

NileRed · Post by **NileRed** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:27 am

Merry Christmas and happy new year 2014 my friends.
Let me show you some my old and new yeasts and molds photos made in Prague and Moscow during 2011-2013. Fluorescence microscopy, Calcofluor white (dye).

Aspergillus sp.

Some wood decaying fungus

The same fungus

Acremonium sp.

Penicillium sp.

Pichia polymorpha

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 2:02 pm

Why is it that when you get old and retire, that you can better relate to mycologicial subject matter?

These are really wonderful as I do enjoy seeing such.

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 2:16 pm

amazing, mysterious

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:40 pm

Very nice set!

Rogelio

NileRed · Post by **NileRed** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 2:57 pm

Thanks!

darwin · Post by **darwin** » Tue Dec 31, 2013 9:56 am

Ken Ramos wrote:Why is it that when you get old and retire, that you can better relate to mycologicial subject matter? These are really wonderful as I do enjoy seeing such.

Well, this is not a general fact. I know multiple people that share this passion for mycology that are not old and retired, luckily for me.

Lovely pictures by the way.

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:14 am

Impressive

NileRed · Post by **NileRed** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:30 pm

Thank you,

few comments to my set

what actually I do not like in fluorescence photomicrography (in particular in my case) - is what I call "chalk effect", which comes from two things - noise and overcontrasting.
In the turn, some noise comes from high ISO (not my case, but very often in scientific journals) and stacking (e.g. ZS which I really like and use often). So, strong chalk effect you can clearly see in my second picture.
To reduce the noise I tried PS4 "denoiser", but it did not help much. After posting of these set of pictures, I decided to try another denoisers and wow! Topaz DeNoise 5 helped! Here, just to compare, upgraded version of second picture (denoised) . I like it a bit more.