Monday, August 27, 2007

Look into my eye


I have been wondering why I can't ever get a really sharp photo of dragon flies' eyes. This extreme closeup (200%) shows why -- they aren't faceted, they are pebbled!

6 comments:

JimII said...

This is a close up of a dragon fly's eye, right? I basically see a light blue, a whitish and a darker black or blue portion. Are they all the eye?

Matt Dick said...

Yes, it's a closeup. The lighter blue is the eye itself. The white is the mouth part, and the black looks like a nose.

So the eye is the big lighter blue section. Click the picture and you'll see the texture on the surface of the eye. This is why I can't get what looks like a sharp focus on the eye itself.

Anna said...

Very cool.

JimII said...

That's amazing. Nice work.

Matlatzinca said...

Check out:
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~hsg/54/table-images/dragonfly-eye.jpg

Matt Dick said...

Hmm... yes. That would be the way better version of the photo.