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Today’s lesson: A closer look into the brain of the mouse (Mus musculus .L)
Today’s lesson: A closer look into the brain of the mouse (Mus musculus .L)
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: School Days: Biology (Basic Editing)
Camera: Yakumo megaimage 57x
Location: Hamburg
Date: Feb 13, 2007
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: -
Shutter: 1/1250
Galleries: Macro, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Feb 13, 2007

 Biology…I was hardly waiting for this theme! This is a picture of a 50 μm mouse brain section (using the freezing microtome) and stained with cresyl violet (which is coloring in red the Nissl fibers).It is a very delicate and time consuming technique(more than a week for a full process). I have used a Canon PowerShot G5 connected to the microscope (using the objective 5x).For the competition the picture was basic processed in CS2:adjust:level,contrast,brightness, crop and than resized. Hope you’ll appreciate it!


Statistics
Place: 111 out of 131
Avg (all users): 4.9626
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
Avg (participants): 4.3333
Avg (non-participants): 5.0899
Views since voting: 1072
Views during voting: 309
Votes: 214
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 02/22/2007 07:04:37 PM
why would you get under 5 for this shot? add this to the long list of photos that make DPC look bad.
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 02/21/2007 02:51:50 AM
Talk about macro shots! Sorry you got punished for taking a picture of real science. Lovely staining. Is it hippocampus? Were you looking at developmental changes or gross morphology or ??
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/20/2007 06:05:46 PM
Is it quite in focus?
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 02/17/2007 11:15:42 AM
Photo microscopy as a creative outlet, who'd have thunk it? The body is full of symmetry.
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 02/15/2007 12:07:43 PM
is this a picture of a disection slide?
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 02/15/2007 08:38:04 AM
Maybe a larger sample of tissue and colour correction of the yellow would of done this justice.
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 02/15/2007 12:50:04 AM
I remember something incredibly like this from a class a while ago; I don't ever remember doing mouse brains but I guess I did. Anyway, very VERY awesome photo and just perfect for this challenge!
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 02/14/2007 05:29:42 PM
An interesting shot. I'll give you a 6 for creativity.
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 02/14/2007 08:09:54 AM
cool. A-
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