Cum on See the Noize

[Pete Askew]

With all due respect to Slade. Any ideas?



How would be giving it away and it was a bit of a bodge but it's a 4 image stack using a 16x objective and DIC incident lighting if that helps.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

It's clearly a THING. With THINGS on it. What's my prize?

 

[Pete Askew]

Not even close. If anything, it's a thing with things in it! And you even have some just a few feet away from where you are sitting!

Must try harder!

 

[John Holland]

Trained parameciums?

 

[Pete Askew]

The Busby Berkely trained protist team. Now that would be worth focusing on.

Nope!

 

[Dave Farnes]

I do not have the faintest idea what it is; but it would make a great Athena poster!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Mother of pearl?

 

[Pete Askew]

Nope. It needs a bit of lateral thinking. I suspect @Shaun Haselden might work it out.

 

[Brian Moore]

It's clearly a teabiscuit, cut into four parts with two end bits missing, and with mold creeping across from one end. Sheesh! Nothing could be more obvious, people!

 

[Pete Askew]

Have you not had breakfast yet?

Miles off.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

See the noize could imply something musical. A guitar string?

 

[Chris Bennett]

Is it a record pressed in coloured vinyl?

 

[Pete Askew]

At last! But not coloured vinyl, the colours are a 'side-effect' of the DIC lighting. It is indeed the grooves on a record. If you look carefully you could probably work out which song!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Wow. That's what I call macro. Actually, micro would be a better term, no?

 

[Pete Askew]

You I'm always a bit puzzled about where photography turns to macro-photography and how one distinguishes that from photomicrography. I guess when an object that is small is photographed to be more than life size then it is macro photography and when that magnification is achieved using a microscope that becomes photomicrography.

Actually I just had the idea of looking on Wikipedia and this is what they say,which makes sense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_photography

I think I would still include the bit about a microscope though as that is why the Zeiss Tessovar is a macro lens even though on casual observation it looks a bit like a microscope.

http://www.realphotographersforum.com/forum/threads/technical-imaging-zeiss-tessovar.4309/

Whereas this is a microscope:

http://www.realphotographersforum.com/forum/threads/reichert-mef2.23646/

The former is a lens mounted on a stand with a primary function of taking macro images. The latter is an instrument to allow one to inspect things at very high magnification but that is equipped with attachments that allow one to record what ones sees photographically.

Does that argument hold do you think?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

My pet Highland bull, Mooks, says yes. Ergo, we can all sleep tonight

Seriously, yes, it does. Thanks.

 

[Chris Bennett]

If you look carefully you could probably work out which song!

I actually prefer the version on their live album!?!

At last! But not coloured vinyl, the colours are a 'side-effect' of the DIC lighting. It is indeed the grooves on a record.

That's an interesting effect. And I have just had to look up what DIC lighting is. I completely understand the whole thing now.

Well, OK...I understand this bit:
"DIC works by separating a polarized light source into..."

After that, I entered a world of swirling letters and whooshing noises. When I came round, I was dribbling a little.

 

[Pete Askew]

Don't worry, the good bit is that it all comes back together in the end - well the constructive bits anyway!

 

[Shaun Haselden]

LOL, sorry for not logging in for a while. The only thing I was sure about was the polarised light sources. Love it. Makes for a really good music room poster, so much better than all of this Technics rubbish

 

[Shaun Haselden]

Has anyone tried reversed wide angle lenses to do this kind of thing...? Just something we did years ago in one of the labs I worked in. Amazing amount of magnification without using a fabulously expensive microscope.