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Cape Sundew - glandular hairs (5:1), Heesch, Netherlands This is a 50 image stack at 5x macro, showing details of the glandular hairs of a Cape sundew. I used a strong LED ring light for lighting. If you look closely, you can see the individual LED lights in each hair ending.<br />
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At a detailed level, this result does have several stacking issues, where foreground and background are mixed up. This is common in complex 3D shapes, and even more so in parts that are translucent. Although you can&#039;t always prevent it, since taking this image I have learned about some solutions not yet applied here. Cape Sundew,Drosera capensis,Extreme Macro Click/tap to enlarge

Cape Sundew - glandular hairs (5:1), Heesch, Netherlands

This is a 50 image stack at 5x macro, showing details of the glandular hairs of a Cape sundew. I used a strong LED ring light for lighting. If you look closely, you can see the individual LED lights in each hair ending.

At a detailed level, this result does have several stacking issues, where foreground and background are mixed up. This is common in complex 3D shapes, and even more so in parts that are translucent. Although you can't always prevent it, since taking this image I have learned about some solutions not yet applied here.

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''Drosera capensis'', commonly known as the Cape sundew, is a small rosette-forming carnivorous species of perennial sundew native to the Cape in South Africa. Because of its size, easy to grow nature, and the copious amounts of seed it produces, it has become one of the most common sundews in cultivation.

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Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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By Ferdy Christant

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Uploaded Apr 24, 2020. Captured Mar 29, 2020 15:06.
  • NIKON D850
  • f/1.2
  • 1/200s
  • ISO250
  • 50mm