Hollyhock pollen, incident darkfield illumination

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Gerd
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Hollyhock pollen, incident darkfield illumination

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Hollyhock pollen on its stigma.
Objective 5x, incident darkfield illumination, selfmade with
Leds (see Macro and Micro Technique section of this forum).
Thanks,
Gerd

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Ken Ramos
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Really nice Gerd :D You captured the details of the pollen quite well. I haven't done any darkfield in quite sometime, maybe I should. Great post, Thanks :D
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Charles Krebs
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Post by Charles Krebs »

I'll check back in a while Gerd... just getting the dreaded red "X" instead of picture right now.

Ahhh... it came through this time. Your little invention looks like it works quite well. Did you use a "custom" white balance? Where does the light seem to be in terms of color balance?

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Hello Charlie,
i tried out custom white balance, but all colours were much too blue.
I got the best results with white balance set to flash.
Thank you,
Gerd

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