Anatomy of a dead fly
I wanted to take a super-macro photograph with lots of detail and an enormous depth of field, so I had to have an absolutely unmoving subject. As nothing is more immobile than death, I used a dead fly and took 100 exposures with my Nikkor macro lens (the F-mount one that I was still using in January 2020) mounted on a 35-mm Fotodiox Pro extension tube.
I worked for a long time on this stack in Helicon Focus, and still the result is far from great. At some point I was so fed up with it that I called it a day, and the result is what you see here.
I believe people who are really into that kind of photo need days of post-processing and retouching work!
Composite shot made up of 100 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the Z7 camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus. Micro-Nikkor 105mm ƒ/2.8 macro lens.
Anatomy of a dead fly
I wanted to take a super-macro photograph with lots of detail and an enormous depth of field, so I had to have an absolutely unmoving subject. As nothing is more immobile than death, I used a dead fly and took 100 exposures with my Nikkor macro lens (the F-mount one that I was still using in January 2020) mounted on a 35-mm Fotodiox Pro extension tube.
I worked for a long time on this stack in Helicon Focus, and still the result is far from great. At some point I was so fed up with it that I called it a day, and the result is what you see here.
I believe people who are really into that kind of photo need days of post-processing and retouching work!
Composite shot made up of 100 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the Z7 camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus. Micro-Nikkor 105mm ƒ/2.8 macro lens.