Butterfly's sculpted egg -- a suitable wedding present?

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Butterfly's sculpted egg -- a suitable wedding present?

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Thought you might enjoy this egg from a small Lupine Blue butterfly.

Did Faberge get some inspiration at the microscope?

Stacked image on the left, one representative frame on the right.

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Icaricia lupini egg, processed by Helicon Focus from a 59-frame stack.
Shot with a 10X, 0.25 N.A. microscope objective on 240 mm tube to Canon Digital Rebel.

For additional information, higher resolution, and stereo/rocking views,
see http://www.janrik.net/insects/ExtendedD ... tereo.html
and the online article "An Introduction to Extended Depth of Field Digital Photography".

Using so many frames, you might think this image is just a poster child for stacking technology.

But in fact I am fascinated by the image -- especially the stereo pair -- because I can instantly and effortlessly see structure that I was never able to see directly through any microscope.

The time to generate the stereo pair was more than repaid by the pleasure I get from it.

--Rik

Edit: to fix broken link
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Post by Ken Ramos »

Great image Rik, the HF works really well. :D Never have seen a butterfly egg before or maybe have but did not know what it was at the time. Thanks for sharing, the image and the info Rik! :D
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Post by S. Alden »

Interesting image...and title. I like the little blue BFs, but this is the first I seen an egg of any BF and I have been looking.
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Post by Erland »

Fantastic magnification, the pattern on the egg is really interesting.

With you hard work to produce images I have to reconsider my macrophotographing as "snapshots" :lol:

Erland

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Erland wrote:Fantastic magnification, the pattern on the egg is really interesting.

With you hard work to produce images I have to reconsider my macrophotographing as "snapshots" :lol:
Thanks! Some might say that I am just a masochist and love beating my head against brick walls! ](*,)

I confess, it is a personal quirk that I tend to do a few things the best I possibly can.

But about the images...

In this size range, these deep stacks produce a combination of sharpness and depth of field that competes with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Surely, to set up and process a stack cannot be as much trouble or expense as to prepare a specimen for an SEM.

So you see, I must be making life easier for myself. (?!)

--Rik

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