Silverfish, two heads and a tail.

[specious_reasons]

I like silverfish as a photographic subject, luckily, I find one around the house every couple of months. I'm happy with these, which is good because I've been on a long dry spell.

The "forehead" - the top of its head. This is a 41 image stack. There's a bit of post processing on this one, namely the blurry areas were a bit "streaky" and grainy in Zerene's PMax, and I didn't like the dmap stack. So the blurry areas were made more blurry, and I cropped this.


Another part of the forehead. This is a 42 images stack. This is heavily cropped because the eye (which would be in the lower right corner) didn't turn out well, but I liked this part.


The center tail. This is an 11 image stack cropped with some color correction.

[carlos.uruguay]

Very interesting.
Could you describe each one?

[specious_reasons]

Very interesting.
Could you describe each one?

What else would you like to know?

All the pictures were taken with a Nikon 10X Plan phase contrast objective. All of them are cropped so I don't know the actual magnification. It's lit from above using 1/2 a ping-pong ball as a diffuser.

#1 is the very front of the top of the silverfish's head. The scales are sloping down towards the very front of the silverfish.

I think I posted this picture in the past:

This is the underside. The hairs at the top of this picture are the ones coming up from the bottom in picture #1.

#2 is top left of the head. If I didn't crop it, you would see the left eye.



I didn't like how the eye turned out, and I wasn't paying attention to the debris, so I cropped the part I still liked.

#3 is just a part of the center of 3 tails.

[carlos.uruguay]

Thank you very much for your kind explanation