Polypodium

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Guppy
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Polypodium

Post by Guppy »

Hi

Here in the repetition lies the power, the charm and the beauty.
Spore containers again, and these in hundreds of copies in the image.
A whole battery of cells (sori) of the polypodium fern, with subcells (sporangia) filled with spores.
They are not all the same, well you can see the different stages of maturation, with maturation the green sporangia become yellow.

Image
www.focus-stacking.ch/B/05282_00.JPG

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Laowa 25mm F 2.8, 2.5-5X Ultra Macro
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 64
Lighting: 4 flashes, YONGNUO YN560III
Diffuser: White writing paper
Shooting file format (RAW/JPG): RAW
Tripod: Reprostand
Species name: "Spotted fern", Polypodium
Multishot technique: Stack
Stacking Software / Method: Zerene Stacker / PMax
Imaging scale: 5:1
Number of stack steps: 165
Average stack step size (µm) with Cognisys StackShot: 10

Troels
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Re: Polypodium

Post by Troels »

That is very nice!
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joshmacro
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Re: Polypodium

Post by joshmacro »

Really fantastic image

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