Crumby Practices His Camera Lesson
Nice Ray!!!! Flys. Jeez Louise! Er. Hmmm. However, if I could sight identify a great many flies to species, I might have an alternative to vending ladies' shoes as a new career option. Yepper, I could lead fly tours. Surely many among the curious and affluent would flock to attend Crumby's Fly Tours. After a few successful tours I could get in with a big optics outfit that specializes in fly viewing optical aids. Then I could become the giant optics outfits' spokeperson, go on TV, and explain to everyone that flies are important. Why? Because without flies, I wouldn't have a job on TV, advertising all the great fly optical aids. That would be swell so long as my new career did not interfere with my normal activities.
Actually though, making a career of flies aside, I am starting to become interested in Ray's flies. What if Ray is right and that deer shit is full of weed seed? With that troubling thought in mind, I headed on out to the east pasture to look for deer shit. I found plenty. I began happily searching in the deer shit for weed seeds. I figured maybe I could espy some of the larger weed seeds naked eyed if I broke apart some of the little shit pellets.
What are you up to, Crumby?
Nothing Rayetta.
But alas I learned that Rayetta considers fingering open deer shit pellets as within the same general parameters as my former dust bunny collection. So I had to quit on the seed search in the deer shit pellets, too. However, I may have to continue that activity in secret anon, with the assistance of my trusty dissecting scope.
So here's a couple of photography lesson practice pictures of Malvastrum aurantiacum fruit segments. These fruit segments in real life are a little under 5mm in longest dimension, 3mm the short way and 2mm thick, approximately.
The first picture is a group of fruit segments shot indoors. The main illumination is from the C5060 flash backlighted by a very wimpy old microscope light. The camera aperture is F8 and maximum zoom with M-150, +10 and +7 magnifiers stacked front to back.
The second practice shot shows the bottom hairy portion of one fruit segment. It's shot through a 25mm plossl telescope ep and adapter plus the C 5060. Lighting includes the old wimpy microscope lamp, a ring LED, and my good for 5000 years flashlight. The camera flash is disabled. Built in camera flashes really goof up microscope shots.
Actually though, making a career of flies aside, I am starting to become interested in Ray's flies. What if Ray is right and that deer shit is full of weed seed? With that troubling thought in mind, I headed on out to the east pasture to look for deer shit. I found plenty. I began happily searching in the deer shit for weed seeds. I figured maybe I could espy some of the larger weed seeds naked eyed if I broke apart some of the little shit pellets.
What are you up to, Crumby?
Nothing Rayetta.
But alas I learned that Rayetta considers fingering open deer shit pellets as within the same general parameters as my former dust bunny collection. So I had to quit on the seed search in the deer shit pellets, too. However, I may have to continue that activity in secret anon, with the assistance of my trusty dissecting scope.
So here's a couple of photography lesson practice pictures of Malvastrum aurantiacum fruit segments. These fruit segments in real life are a little under 5mm in longest dimension, 3mm the short way and 2mm thick, approximately.
The first picture is a group of fruit segments shot indoors. The main illumination is from the C5060 flash backlighted by a very wimpy old microscope light. The camera aperture is F8 and maximum zoom with M-150, +10 and +7 magnifiers stacked front to back. 
The second practice shot shows the bottom hairy portion of one fruit segment. It's shot through a 25mm plossl telescope ep and adapter plus the C 5060. Lighting includes the old wimpy microscope lamp, a ring LED, and my good for 5000 years flashlight. The camera flash is disabled. Built in camera flashes really goof up microscope shots.
posted by ray pistrum at Thursday, January 11, 2007
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