Hippeastrum flower pollen

[JH]

Hippeastrum flower pollen
Nikon ELWD 100x, Canon 6D, EPI-light, Zerene Stacker Adobe PS and LR, Topaz ReMask 5. I used quite a lot of sharpening, and blurred out the background.

Best regards
Jörgen Hellberg

[rjlittlefield]

Impressive! How deep is the stack (frames & microns) ?

--Rik

[Pau]

Excellent, the stereo helps a lot to see the actual shape of the pollen texture

[JH]

Thanks Rik and Pau!

Impressive! How deep is the stack (frames & microns) ?

--Rik

The lens is NA 0.8 so usually a step size close to 0.0005 mm (0.5 microns) will be OK with a little marginal.

I was trying to do a depth map where the dents could be seen. To do this I had to have smaller than normal steps. In this case I used 0.0001 mm (0.1 micron), so 319 pictures covered the distance of approx. 0.032 mm (32 microns).


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Jörgen Hellberg

[Jacek]

Good job, Very nice

[Ken Ramos]

So alien, so unearthly in appearance. Wonderful photograph!

[JH]

Thanks Ken Ramos and Jacek!
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Jörgen Hellberg

[carlos.uruguay]

Nice!

[Olympusman]

Lovely.

Mike

[JH]

Thanks Carlos and Mike.

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Jörgen Hellberg

[JH]

I was interested in trying to have a clean black background. Tried some different options. For this BW-picture I used a Nikon plan apo 40x BD 210 mm lens, dark field, and green light (GIF-filter). The green light helped even though this was an APO-lens.




And a 2D stereo made with Zerene.



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Jörgen Hellberg

[Saul]

Jörgen , result is really beautiful !

[JH]

Thanks Saul

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Jörgen Hellberg

[WalterD]

Congratulations, the green light filter turns out to be a very good choice.


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Walter

[Lou Jost]

Beautiful monochrome shot. If you want to push this farther, you might want to use violet lasers and a cooled monochrome camera.....you'd achieve 20% more resolution and get smooth backgrounds with no thermal noise.