Stamen of Field Scabious with pollen grains

by Alexey Kljatov

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Stamen of Field Scabious with pollen grains

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Alexey Kljatov

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Photograph - Macro Photograph

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This is super macro photo of single stamen inside a flower Field Scabious, or Knautia Arvensis, covered by grains of pollen. This plant is common around Moscow and even in the parks of the city. Stamens of this flower produce so small pollen grains, that they are beyond capabilities of my optics: on this picture, we cannot see exact shape of grains. But pink color of pollen is real, it is not casted by petals of this flower, which you see at background: when i transferred this pollen at black glass plate, grains still looks pink on camera screen.

For this image, i've used my good old "snowflake" macro setup. Daylight comes from left side, and reflected from right side with aluminium foil.

I used both focus stacking and averaging techniques: was taken 12 groups of photos with different focus, and each group contains 10 identical shots for averaging. After assembling focus stacked object, i've prepared background (averaged all 120 source RAW photos - for better smoothness of color gradients with no any trace of noise) and combined object and background with manually painted mask.

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April 19th, 2016

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