Charles Krebs Photomicrography

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Photomicrography

Welcome. This site was created to be a place for me to share my passion for photomicrography -- the taking of photographs through a microscope. While I’ve been a photographer for many years, the microscope is a  relatively new tool for me. In April of 2004, thanks to an eBay auction,  I set up the first microscope I’ve used since my childhood. I have been completely hooked since that time. The arrival of digital photography, and the resources of the Internet are tremendous assets toward  learning microscopy and the techniques of photomicrography. It is an ongoing process for me. The use of some innovative software products for extended depth-of-field techniques has allowed the creation of certain types of images that could only be dreamed of  five or six years ago.

On this page you will find links to my photomicrography galleries. While not entirely in chronological order, I tend to add  a new one when I have gathered a sufficient number of new images. As such, the subject matter is random... whatever came across my microscope stage the previous months. The galleries are rather simple, and only in the most recent ones have I started to include subject and technical information.

You will also find links to my articles and pages that contain information about the particular equipment, techniques, and setup that I use. Some also go into detail on subjects I found  important and useful toward developing the understanding and skills needed for successful photomicrography. There is a huge amount of information available online. It is possible to spend days looking over just the sites on microscopy established by Nikon and Olympus. And there are innumerable other sites with this type of  valuable information. So the articles presented here do not attempt to duplicate these resources, but generally cover specific topics that are useful when using DSLR (or SLR) cameras for photomicrography.