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Blue Bottle Fly - Zerene | Pmax Stack
Hey everyone !
I broke up for Easter just on Friday and have been busy getting some work done to stop myself getting lazy and leaving it all to the last possible minute. I haven't found much time to get something worth while, and been trying to create something to hold my camera steady and rail etc...
After a bit of revision today, i went out in the garden to see if i could catch a wasp, the only one i saw flew away before i got a chance to get it, but there were quite a few flies around that were pretty large in size and would have made superb subjects for a stack.
This, 1cm, Blue Bottle is what i eventually caught after some attempts with other smaller types of fly, but i think it was a good choice as he is very hairy which i am assuming means he is matured.
Zerene stacker DMap is something i won't be using very often, i was using it with these 50 images of this fly and a lot of dust was being shown in the final image and a lot of hairs were out of focus, so whatever Dmap is good for is beyond me, Pmax seems to do a much better job !
If you wish to look close click here; www.flickr.com/photos/sequentialmacro/7036607063/sizes/l/...
There are so many small details you might be interested to see, and i think so far this is the most accurate stack i have done, only moving the rail a tiny bit each time, maybe just 0.3mm each time to take a new image.
The setup was no objective today though, i went back to my good old 28mm Prime lens reversed straight onto the camera body, any more magnification and i would have just got a compound eye to work with !
Have a good Monday as always leave a comment and PLEASE leave criticisms and problems with the image, it helps me make my photography better :-)
Blue Bottle Fly - Zerene | Pmax Stack
Hey everyone !
I broke up for Easter just on Friday and have been busy getting some work done to stop myself getting lazy and leaving it all to the last possible minute. I haven't found much time to get something worth while, and been trying to create something to hold my camera steady and rail etc...
After a bit of revision today, i went out in the garden to see if i could catch a wasp, the only one i saw flew away before i got a chance to get it, but there were quite a few flies around that were pretty large in size and would have made superb subjects for a stack.
This, 1cm, Blue Bottle is what i eventually caught after some attempts with other smaller types of fly, but i think it was a good choice as he is very hairy which i am assuming means he is matured.
Zerene stacker DMap is something i won't be using very often, i was using it with these 50 images of this fly and a lot of dust was being shown in the final image and a lot of hairs were out of focus, so whatever Dmap is good for is beyond me, Pmax seems to do a much better job !
If you wish to look close click here; www.flickr.com/photos/sequentialmacro/7036607063/sizes/l/...
There are so many small details you might be interested to see, and i think so far this is the most accurate stack i have done, only moving the rail a tiny bit each time, maybe just 0.3mm each time to take a new image.
The setup was no objective today though, i went back to my good old 28mm Prime lens reversed straight onto the camera body, any more magnification and i would have just got a compound eye to work with !
Have a good Monday as always leave a comment and PLEASE leave criticisms and problems with the image, it helps me make my photography better :-)