Pollen grain in Baltic amber
Today’s photo is a pollen grain on the wing of an ant embedded in Baltic amber. For this picture I used a Nikon M plan 40x 0,5 ELWD objective on a Nikon Optiphot microscope. Trying to compensate for the fact that this lens is made for subjects without a cover glass and this subject was embedded in amber I used a shorter than usual tube length 160mm instead of 210mm. Post processing in Adobe Lightroom. WB is always a little bit tricky in amber, here I used the wing of the insect as “grey”. After the picture was stacked in Helicon Focus, I sharpened it in Adobe photoshop using Smart sharpen and unsharp mask.