Micro photography

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A high energy beam scanner, called a scanning electron micrograph, was used to capture this image, which shows the surface of a human tongue. The protruding objects, called filiform papillae, can sense pressure. The flaky appearance of the papillae results from the fact that they are constantly shedding their skin to increase sensitivity. Source: Science Photo/Photo Researchers

Zerene stack of 160 images taken with a Reichert 10X microscope objective on bellows with a Sony A200. You can see the end of the objective reflecting off of the surface of the eye.

Nikon Small World awards microscope photographer cash prizes for their best microscope pictures each year, and 2016 has brought some truly beautiful images.

Venture into the tiny details of the natural world with our gallery of super-macro photography, which reveals unseen textures and patterns.

Texture- You can almost feel the strawberry because of how detailed the photo is.

When taking macro pictures, or pictures of fairly small objects in general, a common problem is to get the lightning right. More even lightning can be achieved by using a "soft box", essentially a contraption that spreads light from one (or a few) light sources over a larger area. A very cheap and simple soft box is a transparent bucket, like this one: Preferably, it should have as neutral density as possible. If it has some colour tint, the images will get the wrong white balance. It is of…