Microscopy Project with a Ball Python

Everyone, meet Aspen, my beloved female normal ball python. She is so lovable and popular she has her own website complete with fanbase.

i kid. lol

This is my final project for a very hard photography course i just finished up in college. Im a third year photography major at RIT and for my Photomicrography project i decided to use aspen and explore some of the less looked at parts of a snakes body, their scales. I am not 100% on the information. i've been researching snakes since i was 10 years old ( and am about to turn 21 ) so ive gleaned things for years and some of it may not be exactly right.

I took each and every one of the images and aspen was a little trooper for letting me do this.

Without further A due, here is the project
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/...ake/index.html

Cool Pics!!

well done ((claps)) love that you also included the link for the forum

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Originally Posted by AshleyB

well done ((claps)) love that you also included the link for the forum

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i HAD to. ive learned so much from this forum, even with all the books and trips to pet expos and stuff. I want everyone who looks at my website to be able to get all their questions answered too.

excellent

That was awesome!

That really is great work. I love the detail you got on those pictures.

wow great work on everything

That is a wonderful project, beautifully layed out, stunning pictorial....great job! Let us know how it is received please. :)

Your pics are just awesome! I love the detail.

What camera and lens did you use?

Excellent job! You get an A+ from me! :D

I love the close-ups of the shed skin! Very cool!

I think it says it on the webpage, a nikon d80? Nice camera ;)

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Originally Posted by AshleyB

I think it says it on the webpage, a nikon d80? Nice camera ;)

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yeah the camera, set up and lenses are all listed on the site.

i used a Nikon D80 body for all of it, some pictures were taken with a... i think its a 27-130mm lens ( i have to dig it out of its case to check ), some with a dedicated 60mm macro lens and some with a thimble lens ( a REALLY small lens ).

i also ended up getting an A+ on the project from my professor.

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great work there and congrats on the A+ , well deserved it was.

What a great project.

I just sent the link to my 6 and 8 year old nieces, and my 12 year old nephew, they all love my pythons, but especially the 6 year old. She'll be thrilled!

Bruce

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I think it says it on the webpage, a nikon d80? Nice camera ;)

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Oops - I was too busy looking at the pics by the end of the article to catch that info. Thanks Ashley!

Very good job. I'm also glad to hear that you got rewarded for your effort. Congrats on a job well done.

Very nice. I really appreciate the detail involved. I have yet to be able to get that type of crisp macro on my camera... :bow:

Very well done!

that is quite awesome I hopeyou got an A

Great job, I normally don't click on links to sites with tons of pictures, for I use dial up. So I waited for things to load, made a smoothie, and wham!, came across lovely pictures of a beautiful ball python. Congratulation on your A+ it was well deserved.

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Great job, I normally don't click on links to sites with tons of pictures, for I use dial up. So I waited for things to load, made a smoothie, and wham!, came across lovely pictures of a beautiful ball python. Congratulation on your A+ it was well deserved.

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i hope it didnt take too long for ya! i tried to resize the images to load but i know me, detail over file size any day! ( even if it means waiting a half hour for things to load..or 5 hours like that one time... oh man ).

and to ladyohh ( i cant figure out how to double quote on this thing ).

I also used a little bellows ( like this, but smaller http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/c...on/bellows.jpg ) and a thimble lens, the tiney olympus lens in the last picture on the website for her skin. the rest of them were shot with a normal "macro" lens, this http://www.ndreview.com/images/macro...f_28d_lens.jpg is actually my lens.