Sedum (Biting Stonecrop)
Some more Dew for You. I took this shot a couple of days ago after watch a video on youtube that showed my favorite Flickr Macro shooter at work. Many of his images are created indoors of live insects using mechanized equipment for focus stacking, but some of his work is done in the field and hand held. In the video he was laying on the ground and held the camera so that he could slowly move the camera forward while shooting a burst. Then he stacked the images to arrive a a pretty impressive image.
Anyways, I thought I would try to copy his method. This image is a focus stack of seven hand held images. I focused on the closest bit and then backed off a wee bit and then shot a birst while trying to move forward slowly. I chose the sharpest images and then brought them into photoshop for processing. This is the result.
There is a bit of cropping here. It is by no means perfect, but still I am quite happy with it. There are some smeary sections as I did not move slowly enough. Definitely it will take some practice.
For anyone wanting to see some simply amazing macro work that utilizes focus stacking check out this guys work... www.flickr.com/photos/tranthengoc/
Sedum (Biting Stonecrop)
Some more Dew for You. I took this shot a couple of days ago after watch a video on youtube that showed my favorite Flickr Macro shooter at work. Many of his images are created indoors of live insects using mechanized equipment for focus stacking, but some of his work is done in the field and hand held. In the video he was laying on the ground and held the camera so that he could slowly move the camera forward while shooting a burst. Then he stacked the images to arrive a a pretty impressive image.
Anyways, I thought I would try to copy his method. This image is a focus stack of seven hand held images. I focused on the closest bit and then backed off a wee bit and then shot a birst while trying to move forward slowly. I chose the sharpest images and then brought them into photoshop for processing. This is the result.
There is a bit of cropping here. It is by no means perfect, but still I am quite happy with it. There are some smeary sections as I did not move slowly enough. Definitely it will take some practice.
For anyone wanting to see some simply amazing macro work that utilizes focus stacking check out this guys work... www.flickr.com/photos/tranthengoc/