Contact

Michelle McFarlane  Photographic Artist
Melbourne, Australia

For commissions or interest in works
photo@michellemcfarlane.com

 

Photo service website:

www.mmpstudio.com.au

Mould

Anything with mould in it

More Mould

More Mould

Back in to the studio for some mouldy pics.


BTS before and after shots

BTS before and after shots

Before and after shots of the food at life size taken with a phone camera and the result after being photographed through the microscope with fancy lights and focus stacking.


How were your microscope images created?

How were your microscope images created?

I execute the set-up with an objective microscope lens mounted to my 35 mm camera. With the microscopic lens (15 x magnification), the depth of field is only about 5 microns (5 thousandths of a millimetre), less than the thickness of a human hair. To be able to get a photo with everything in focus, I use a technique called focus stacking. I shoot a series of images with the focus changed manually between each shot while painting with light to capture as much detail as I can. For some photos, I take up to 150 individual images and “stack” them in post-production to create a composite picture of all of the in-focus parts of each image.