Another shell. Pearlescent marine.

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Another shell. Pearlescent marine.

#1 Post by billben74 » Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:05 pm

Inspired by my previous encounter with a snail shell from my garden, see

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4179&hilit=shell

I bought a bag of small shells.Amazing what you can buy on the internet these days.

Here is my rough cut of a large stitch and stack of a shell. Reflected light x4 na 0.10 plan achromat objective, 1200D canon, zerine stacker and microsoft ICE for stitching. This is a fairly big job, about 4000 images taken and I still have some work ahead of me to polish (ha ha) it off. Hopefully I can iron out some its photographic imperfections.
But after spending a fair amount of time to getting to this point I fancied posting.


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#2 Post by gekko » Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:44 pm

Wonderful job and amazing perseverance! Thousands of images!!!
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#3 Post by hkv » Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:53 pm

Fantastic! What a job!
What is the final resolution of the image after stitching?
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#4 Post by billben74 » Wed Dec 21, 2016 12:06 am

Many thanks gekko and hkv.
14107x 14044. I'm not very efficient, but the shell is deep, about 300 in a stack some places.
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#5 Post by rnabholz » Wed Dec 21, 2016 2:42 am

4000 images and you aren't done yet!!

Wow what devotion. The results are worth it- great light and colors. Flawless stitch as far as I can see.

Well done!
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Re: Another shell. Pearlescent marine.

#6 Post by Rodney » Thu Dec 22, 2016 5:13 pm

You may like one from my collection.
I chiseled this one out from chert.
Fossil snail, AO Cycloptic, x10, single image.

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Re: Another shell. Pearlescent marine.

#7 Post by billbillt » Fri Dec 23, 2016 4:47 pm

billben74 wrote:Inspired by my previous encounter with a snail shell from my garden, see

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4179&hilit=shell

I bought a bag of small shells.Amazing what you can buy on the internet these days.

Here is my rough cut of a large stitch and stack of a shell. Reflected light x4 na 0.10 plan achromat objective, 1200D canon, zerine stacker and microsoft ICE for stitching. This is a fairly big job, about 4000 images taken and I still have some work ahead of me to polish (ha ha) it off. Hopefully I can iron out some its photographic imperfections.
But after spending a fair amount of time to getting to this point I fancied posting.


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That is really beautiful!!..

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Re: Another shell. Pearlescent marine.

#8 Post by billben74 » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:56 pm

Thanks for your interest Rodney. Like your fossil shell.
Thanks billbillt for you kind words.
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