{"id":2853,"date":"2012-09-11T19:36:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2012-09-11T19:36:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:36:27","slug":"first-steps-in-photo-microscopy-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2853","title":{"rendered":"First steps in photo microscopy Part 1."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been trying out taking photos using a microscope without a lot of success. The first problem was a bright spot with a light halo in the centre of the photo:<\/p>\n

\"bright<\/a>This had me really puzzled and I couldn’t sort it out. Consulting a friend, he suggested it might be a caused by light reflecting in the camera adaptor tube. This sounded realistic so I painted the inside of the tube with blackboard paint. As you can see with the next image, this worked (Thanks Wal!).\"brght<\/a>So I now turned to taking photographs of a genuine subject – spider mite from our greenhouse that are infesting our cucumber plants. But I wanted to try something different – not capture and mount a specimen on a slide, but to take a live specimen on its web. This gave the following image:<\/p>\n

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Original<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cropping and adjusting the exposure gave:<\/p>\n

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edited<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not too bad for a first attempt but could be better. The set-up looked like this:\"microscope<\/a>This was taken using natural light. The main problem was movement of the mite causing not just movement blur but actually moving out of focus.<\/p>\n

You can see the infested plants in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been trying out taking photos using a microscope without a lot of success. The first problem was a bright spot with a light halo in the centre of the photo: This had me really puzzled and I couldn’t sort it out. Consulting a friend, he suggested it might be a caused by light … Continue reading “First steps in photo microscopy Part 1.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}