Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly Wing Scales

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Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly Wing Scales

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Nice photos. what lens, what lighting?
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Scales

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10X objective with ligthing from a gooseneck fiber optic lamp. The lamp has two arms, but I learned to use only one arm to get better modeling on the scales.
Pretty deep stacks - from 60 to over two hundred on the third one.

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I like the first one with the shadows.
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