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And now for something completely different!!
As I am mostly a bird photographer, a miserable rainy day gave me a chance to get out the new Macro 100mm f2.8 L IS USM lens that i bought 3 weeks ago.
In the lounge room, I set up a small lamp table close to a north facing window, plonked an empty vase on it, hung a dark blue towel over a clothes horse for the background, and then shot off to the shops to get some flowers.
Macro photography is a newish discipline for me and I'd recently seen an article on the Web that described the method of photo stacking.
As we all know, when using a macro lens, the focal point can have a depth of field of a couple of millimetres. By using photomerge in Photoshop, 5 or 6 photos of different focus points can be layered together to increase the DoF.
To do so, you must use manual focus and slightly adjust the focus for each shot. I focused on the closest point and then moved the focus backwards each time i took a shot.
And now for something completely different!!
As I am mostly a bird photographer, a miserable rainy day gave me a chance to get out the new Macro 100mm f2.8 L IS USM lens that i bought 3 weeks ago.
In the lounge room, I set up a small lamp table close to a north facing window, plonked an empty vase on it, hung a dark blue towel over a clothes horse for the background, and then shot off to the shops to get some flowers.
Macro photography is a newish discipline for me and I'd recently seen an article on the Web that described the method of photo stacking.
As we all know, when using a macro lens, the focal point can have a depth of field of a couple of millimetres. By using photomerge in Photoshop, 5 or 6 photos of different focus points can be layered together to increase the DoF.
To do so, you must use manual focus and slightly adjust the focus for each shot. I focused on the closest point and then moved the focus backwards each time i took a shot.