Fayalite

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JW
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Fayalite

Post by JW »

Another from my recent session photographing microcrystals, with WeMacro rail, MPE65, Canon 50D, Zerene stacker, primarily DMap with minor corrections from a PMax stack of just the main crystal, a bit of PS (actually, more than I care to admit as I did not have the correct color balance settings on my camera) to fix contrast and color balance.

Top is not a stack - the crystal is extremely thin and was nearly totally within the DOF of the MPE 65 at 5x. Bottom image is a stack. The fayalite are the green transparent crystals, sitting on a bed of cristobalite and orthoclase, the black specks are very small magneite octahedrons. These are found within spherical inclusions in obsidian, usually called 'lithophysae' and are frequently found in volcanic areas, this one being from Coso Hot Springs in California, USA.

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soldevilla
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Re: Fayalite

Post by soldevilla »

a little above the possibilities of that optic, isn't it?

The specimens, very beautiful

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