Thank you all for your kind words. (I'll stop thanking now) But it felt a bit as if I came late on a party and when I opened the door suddenly the music and all the conversation stopped and everybody gazed at me. It is weird because I still feel a bit like a beginner. I've seen things in your forum that I can only dream about making. I still have a lot to learn. But more about that later, first an image:
This is the diatom's way of protesting against the polution of the ocean
It is an interesting organism for combining images. I have seen a very impressive result in the forum. I don't have a digital camera on the microscope so it is too time consuming to scan many slides But I made a couple of images so I could create more depth of field. But in this case I think it is also o.k. to use the shallow depth of field to emphasize the strange threedimensional shape. But perhaps a bit more depth of field would be better. Actually this image was made from 2 slides since the depth of field was so shallow.
I think that the out of focus areas give the image a bit dream-like atmosphere. I have not yet used the Helicon software. I am curious if it is easy to control and to retain the out of focus parts! But I can't wait to combine loads of images.
Sorry for the long text. I'll have a lot more I like to discuss but I'll try to spread it over several postings.
best regards from the low countries!
Wim
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Gorgeous picture, Wim. Hope to see you get a digital camera soon so we can see your museum grow even quicker! Yes, I have somewhere a combined image of the two different depths, but it was a bit of a dissapointment as the feeling for depth disappeared. Unlike the other stack that was taken from anangle, but I forgot who took it, was it Graham?Wim van Egmond wrote:
This is the diatom's way of protesting against the polution of the ocean
best regards from the low countries!
Wim
Anyway, there are things sticking out on the edge in the middle of each sector; there's a corresponding hole in the alternating (deep)sector.
Rene.
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Hi ya' Wim
This is gorgeous I love the contrast of the sharp portions of the diatom against the out of focus portions. Sometimes shallow depth of field works well with a subject. Frez sent me a couple of fossil diatom strew slides and I shot a 12 image stack of this diatom. It was just a lot of fun to watch various parts come into and then go out of focus. Beautiful image, Wim
Best regards as always, my friend
This is gorgeous I love the contrast of the sharp portions of the diatom against the out of focus portions. Sometimes shallow depth of field works well with a subject. Frez sent me a couple of fossil diatom strew slides and I shot a 12 image stack of this diatom. It was just a lot of fun to watch various parts come into and then go out of focus. Beautiful image, Wim
Best regards as always, my friend
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