Enjoyed these. Thanks for detailing the different lighting types. If I may ask, what is a jewel case retarder?
Walt

Wow, Very beautiful. Especially with the Rheinberg lighting.
Walt

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_bubbicular_lensingW_1.jpg More Bubbles One more shot of what I'm calling bubbicular lensing. These bubbles formed on the leads of a integrated circuit. Its interesting to see the copper leads through the bubbles. The image also shows that bubbles cle...

Gentlemen, thank you all for your comments. Hi Rik. Thanks for the detailed look. You have a keen eye. I had not noticed the similar orientation of the small face crystals on the lower right image. Chris. I looked at your linked image. It’s interesting that they consider this vanadinite. It is so di...

Very nice project. Enjoying your images. Walt

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_vanadinite_crystals1w_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_vanadinite_crystals2w_1.jpg Vanadinite Crystals A rock shop purchase put me in possession of some minute vanadinite crystals although larger ones can be had. I had always th...

Thank you gentlemen for taking a look. Walt

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_red_bubblesW_2.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_black_bubblesW_01_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_gray_bubbleW_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_white_bubblesW_1.jpg BUBBLES Bubbles, bub...

Charles, Walter, Carlos and hkv. Thank you so much. Walt

Thank you gentlemen. Walt

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_grasspollen1w_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_grasspollen2w_1.jpg I like to look at small flowers and there reproductive organs. Alas, I have ignored the grasses. Not any more. They too have their beauty. I have not yet put a n...

Hi Marek. Sorry I got lazy with details. Both images processed in Zerene Stacker using PMax. Both images used a 6.5x objective requiring 139 images for the top photo and 83 for the lower. 10 micron moves. 9.5x on the sensor. Hope this helps.
Walt

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_insect_egggs2_w_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/96_insect_eggsw_1.jpg Have not posted in a while, glad to be back. Found these on a leaf recently. Hope they will hatch. The lower image appears to show a green feature curled in sid...

Smokedaddy, nice heliostat setup there. Just love those things. Built one big 10 inch plus two coelostats of that size for solar studies. Olympusman, don't forget I was clouded out three times before costing a bundle in lost time, wages etc. I know what you mean.
Walt

Hello Chris. JW. The photos you see, believe it or not, are all single shots that I tweaked from RAW capture using RAW manipulation software and then some additional processing in Photoshop. Mainly shadowes and highlights. Many more advanced imagers did use multiple exposure HDR processing but I did...