Eddie The Bugman
Sympetrum striolatum newly emerged
A freshly emerged Common Darter portrait from Monday morning, I found plenty of these recently emerged Dragonflies on the walls around the fountain at the Memorial Park. So I tried to get a few close up portraits of these beauties. They were swaying in the wind a bit, but every so often the wind would die and I'd try for another portrait focus stack.
When focus stacking I have to shoot JPEG's with the 1000D as it doesn't cope well in RAW and tends to start buffering after 3 shots, which slows things down too much. This was a 15 image focus stack using using an F/7.1 aperture, ISO 200 and a 1/160 aperture. I used the MP-E 65mm at x2 mag and a diffused flash was used.
Sympetrum striolatum newly emerged
A freshly emerged Common Darter portrait from Monday morning, I found plenty of these recently emerged Dragonflies on the walls around the fountain at the Memorial Park. So I tried to get a few close up portraits of these beauties. They were swaying in the wind a bit, but every so often the wind would die and I'd try for another portrait focus stack.
When focus stacking I have to shoot JPEG's with the 1000D as it doesn't cope well in RAW and tends to start buffering after 3 shots, which slows things down too much. This was a 15 image focus stack using using an F/7.1 aperture, ISO 200 and a 1/160 aperture. I used the MP-E 65mm at x2 mag and a diffused flash was used.