For the past four twelvemonth , photographer and biochemist Linden Gledhill has been accept macro focus shots of various butterfly stroke and moth wings . Gledhill , who has also photographednaturalandhomegrown snowflakes , designedhis own rig(with the help of Cognisys ) to assist create these intricate and beautiful tightlipped - up view .
All images viaLinden Gledhill . Top icon is of a monarch butterfly fender .
Over at hisFlickr Sir Frederick Handley Page , Gledhill describes how he did it :
Cognisys , the makers of StopShot have developed a fully automated macro focus rail . This machine is incredibly well made and precise down to 0.01 mm . The controller automates the laborious process of capture the epitome take to ramp up a high resolving macro stack by controlling not only the macro track but also the camera .
Most photos were taken at 7X animation sizing using fanfare . double : Sunset moth .
To increase deepness of field ( DOF ) , multiple image were compound using focusing stacking . Image : Papilio blumei fruhstorferi .
Gledhill is now using a picture tv camera lens “ Canon TV electron lens JF16 millimetre 1:1.4 ” reverse rise on propagation tubes , which gives him about 17X overstatement . figure : Papilio blumei fruhstorferi .
mental image : Butterfly wing scales .
Image : reddish admiral extension .
Image : Moth wing scales .
trope : Sun moth flank .
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