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07/20/2011 09:28:13 AM · #1 |
Viewed at a magnification of over 250 times real life, tiny grains of sand are shown to be delicate, colourful structures as unique as snowflakes
Read more: //www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2011471/Pictures-sand-Close-photographs-reveal-incredible-beauty.html#ixzz1SeUE37Th
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07/20/2011 09:32:03 AM · #2 |
| Thanks for posting this. Fascinating & enchanting. Thank goodness for cameras, to show us these wondeers. |
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07/20/2011 09:35:59 AM · #3 |
| Very interesting. It seems he invented his own version of focus stacking. |
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07/20/2011 09:36:26 AM · #4 |
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07/20/2011 09:41:35 AM · #5 |
very cool. What focus stackers are you all using?
Anyone know of a decent freeware focus stacker? |
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07/20/2011 09:51:46 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by amsterdamman:
Anyone know of a decent freeware focus stacker? |
CombineZ is free, and works well. I use it at work. It's not the most polished software, but in default mode it does a pretty darn good job.
Ps CS5 also will do focus stacking, so if you have it you may want to try it. I can't vouch for it,never tried it.
Message edited by author 2011-07-20 09:51:55.
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07/20/2011 09:53:06 AM · #7 |
Man, this guy's got time on his hands!
"Like grains of sand through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives...."
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07/20/2011 10:11:30 AM · #8 |
| I thought they all were the same. How beautiful! |
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07/20/2011 10:27:03 AM · #9 |
| This is pretty much what I expected from the last macro challenge. |
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07/20/2011 10:38:07 AM · #10 |
| I've tried CS5's focus stacking routine on a flower macro with various focus points, and it worked like magic. Was quite surprised at how well it works. |
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07/20/2011 10:52:52 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by davesharman:
I've tried CS5's focus stacking routine on a flower macro with various focus points, and it worked like magic. Was quite surprised at how well it works. |
that's good to know. I probably won't upgrade from CS4 until CS6 comes out, but I will file for future reference.
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07/20/2011 01:36:38 PM · #12 |
| well worth the look. thanks. |
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07/20/2011 01:42:55 PM · #13 |
When I was a geology student many years ago - during the micro-palaeontology module, we'd have to sift through ancient sands and, using a microscope and a very fine wet paintbrush, we'd pick up the organic elements and put them on a gridded slide. The ratio of various micro-fossils would tell you what the palaeo-environment was like.
I don't remember them being colourful like this though..... Lovely stuff. |
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07/20/2011 02:13:14 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by paulbtlw:
I don't remember them being colourful like this though..... Lovely stuff. |
As I was looking at them, I said to myself, "what the heck did he coat these with??"
they look "wet" but it's probably not water. Possibly a thin vapor-deposited solid (e.g. paraxylylene) or a dried coating applied as a liquid.
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07/20/2011 02:23:51 PM · #15 |
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07/20/2011 02:25:19 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by paulbtlw:
When I was a geology student many years ago - during the micro-palaeontology module, we'd have to sift through ancient sands and, using a microscope and a very fine wet paintbrush, we'd pick up the organic elements and put them on a gridded slide. The ratio of various micro-fossils would tell you what the palaeo-environment was like.
I don't remember them being colourful like this though..... Lovely stuff. |
Right, so this is what's IN sand, right? There's plenty of boring particles all around them, I assume? Or do I have to go to the Jersey Shore and see for myself? |
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07/20/2011 02:41:52 PM · #17 |
| i dunno, you might have to go to the other Jersey... that was British sand in those photos. |
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07/20/2011 03:00:43 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Right, so this is what's IN sand, right? There's plenty of boring particles all around them, I assume? Or do I have to go to the Jersey Shore and see for myself? |
Particles like this are there, but from the article, he has spent *years* scouring through who knows how much sand to find the selection he has photographed.
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07/20/2011 03:07:19 PM · #19 |
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07/20/2011 04:29:00 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
i dunno, you might have to go to the other Jersey... that was British sand in those photos. |
The guy used sand from all over the world.
He's an American, living in Hawaii.
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07/20/2011 08:56:00 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by amsterdamman:
Anyone know of a decent freeware focus stacker? |
CombineZ is free, and works well. I use it at work. It's not the most polished software, but in default mode it does a pretty darn good job.
Ps CS5 also will do focus stacking, so if you have it you may want to try it. I can't vouch for it,never tried it. |
CS4 does it too, and I've used it. It works.... alright. I saw a definite effect, but then when looking through the various masks, was sorta left scratching my head at what was selected as "sharp" or not. |
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