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You should be able to see a 3d scorpion here, but it is a bit difficult

seeing them and not everyone can. the two pictures are supposed to

represent the image that each eye would see when looking at the

subject. To see it in 3d you have to superimpose one image ontop of the

other by going a little crosseyed. your brain does the rest. It can be

quite effective. Try being directly infront of the screen, perhaps a little

nearer than you usually get. Then go a little crosseyed. you end up

seeing three images, the center image is the left hand image in the right

eye superimposed on the right hand image in the left eye. If you then

concentrate on the center image you should quite clearly see it as 3d

and in this case it makes it clearer which legs are infront of what etc. I

think it was the victorians that started it with some novelty cards, but it

is actually usefull for mathmatitians for plots and biologists and

chemists looking at molecule representations etc.

LOL, very nice, even nicer still when you let the joke carry on :).

 

 

 

Let us guess if it is real rather than insist when it might just not be :).

 

 

 

Good work. Tim

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking, hope you find it interesting.

 

cheers

 

tim

How on earth anyone or anything can pick out a fly about to land and still get its eyes perfectly sharp i have no idea. Gobbsmakked, wonderfull picture :).

 

tim

This should really be macro, but it would be nice to take some

advice from you guys and hopefully transfere it. Critiques on

lighting would be really appreciated, it is difficult getting lights

between the camera and the subject as the distance is only about

4mm, but not knowing how it should normally be be done is probably

not a help when trying to recreate similar techniques on a smaller

scale.

 

Thanks for looking

 

tim

This poor daddy (actually a mum) didnt make it through the winter, I

found her on a late autmn evening on her last legs, but even after 3

month in the freezer I think she still holds some of her mystique.

Hope you like her too.

 

Thanks for looking

 

tim

Common wasp shot with a microscope attached to a dSLR. Thanks for

looking.

tim

I very much like this picture, and apreciate the difficulty in taking such a small subject. This is wonderfully done. I suspect that you are right on the limit of your equipment, it looks as if you have used extention tubes or cropped quite tightly, either way the resolution of this picture seems to be at its limit. Perhaps you are getting diffraction problems because the effective f number of the lens each time you use an extention tube or teleconverter. It would be interesting to see if actuallly lowering the f number would have increased the sharpness? I know it sounds counter intuative but when you are at such high magnification you are right on the limit of the properties of light, and sometimes you have to come right down to f5.6 to prevent diffraction artifacts causing the image to be less sharp. It would be nice to see a seriese if you have it at different f stops.

 

tim

Found deep in a blackberry bush, thanks for looking, criique,

especially bad :), always apreciated.

 

tim

Great capture there, it really shows nicely the demise of the poor bug. I am not sure if it is the jpging but you may want to upload these with less compression on, as the compression artifacts dont help the sharpness much, and it is a shame to see them on such a wonderfull capture. Love your portfolio btw, the colors are breathtaking

 

tim

I am sorry you didn't like it Ed, I was actually pleased that it made you have to think about what it was, and that makes one look a little harder. Sometimes I think it is effective to break the rules :). All comments apreciated of course, especially critical ones.

 

tim

It looses some (lots) of detail from the resize but I hope you like

it anyway.

 

thanks for looking

 

tim

Great stuff, and what colours.

 

tim

Thanks for the interest Peter, all the info is in the photo details with a link to the software used. your portfolio is wonderfull BTW.

 

tim

Awesome scary and beautiful, I especially like the red fill lighting/reflection in the eyes.

 

tim

WOW, incredable, cant fault it.

 

Tim

Excelent, very cool and funny, if i had to criticise anything it would be the halos, but i think they even help here.

 

7/7

 

tim

Closeup of a common garden hover fly Epistrophe elegans wih unshaven

eyes :).

 

Thanks for looking

 

tim

Thanks very much Mary.

 

Sure Martin love to but it is a bit involved though. It is done with a program that adds lots of pictures focused slightly differently together. So unfortunatly the subject shouldnt move, so fast mooving insects are usually best dead or cold, but most beetles etc are ok just as they are, or with a bit of honey, it really hepls if they are alive so as they dont end up all crawled up in a ball. The lighting is just halogen unfortunatly, it is about the only thing small enough and bright enough to get close enough so as it will go between the lens and the subject (fiber optics are better because they dont cause any heat but very expencive). The distance between the lens and the subject in this case was 4.2mm. These had 4 lights around them at various distances, and a half a ping pong ball over the subject as a diffuser with holes in to take the picture through and let non diffuse light in. The camera is mounted on a microscope, in this case with a 2.5x reichert plan acro infinity corrected lense. Then it is only a case of focusing on the bit you want in focus at the rear, one in the middle and then again at the front, checking the exposure for all three. Working out what your DOF is from the lens (about a hairs width) and taking series of pictures at the right distance for each untill you have all of your subject in focus and stacking them togehter in a program called combinez to add all the pictures together and a couple of hours (depending on the speed of the PC and amount of setting changes necessary) later it is ready. There is a small tutorial on stacking here if anyone hasnt heard of it or is interested http://www.scientificillustration.net/focus_stacking.html

 

tim

Many thanks for the 7/7 Goran, I am happy you think so, generally people seem not to like nasty looking insects :). it was about 4 hours work mostly preparation so the comment is much apreciated.

It supprised me just how similar these are to blue bottle flies,

presumably there is some micro geographic distinctions between their

ecosystems that keeps them from competing? Compared to these they

only seem to be coloured differently http://photo.net/photodb/photo?

photo_id=6413763.

 

Thanks for looking

 

tim

Hope you like it, any c&c of course greatly apreciated.

Hope you like it.

 

thaks

 

tim

I would never say anything mean to a bird like that ;). Excelent photo and what a character.

 

tim

Usually black on macro is waaaayyy over done, but here it works perfectly, really superebe shot, 7/6