SequentialMacro
Trapped
Been a busy week with a concert in which i had 2 solo's and a visit to the Hospital for an Endoscopy so I haven't found much time to do any macro :(
It has unfortunately been raining all week, so going outside for some macro is off the table, so with this fly that got trapped at the window sill i decided to do a stack after i accidentally killed it whilst trying to show it the way out...
I began with a stack with the 10x, something i just can't seem to do with the stacking machine my friend built, moving distances of 0.01 just isn't fine enough and will be set aside till i can figure out a solution.
The 4x went on and i got 260 or so images to stack.
Zerene stacker went on and i stacked both Pmax and Dmap for some retouching of the harsh outcome Pmax gave me...
In Photoshop i retouched the background and decreased the vividness of the blue to bring out details in the subject. I then sharpened the subject to finalize the details, mainly it's eyes.
The image seemed too contrasted so i decreased this a little and set the curves/light to auto which did a pretty good job.
White balance was off so i decrease the redness and this brought out its wonderful purple eyes.
If anyone has anymore questions about my work message me please, happy to help. As for my stacking device, build one for next to nothing or buy one from amazon, some of you have asked whether stacking is worth it so i included a single image below to show you why stacking is necessary with a wide open aperture and or Microscope Objective.
Larger image is here worth a look : www.flickr.com/photos/sequentialmacro/7564475846/sizes/k/...
Trapped
Been a busy week with a concert in which i had 2 solo's and a visit to the Hospital for an Endoscopy so I haven't found much time to do any macro :(
It has unfortunately been raining all week, so going outside for some macro is off the table, so with this fly that got trapped at the window sill i decided to do a stack after i accidentally killed it whilst trying to show it the way out...
I began with a stack with the 10x, something i just can't seem to do with the stacking machine my friend built, moving distances of 0.01 just isn't fine enough and will be set aside till i can figure out a solution.
The 4x went on and i got 260 or so images to stack.
Zerene stacker went on and i stacked both Pmax and Dmap for some retouching of the harsh outcome Pmax gave me...
In Photoshop i retouched the background and decreased the vividness of the blue to bring out details in the subject. I then sharpened the subject to finalize the details, mainly it's eyes.
The image seemed too contrasted so i decreased this a little and set the curves/light to auto which did a pretty good job.
White balance was off so i decrease the redness and this brought out its wonderful purple eyes.
If anyone has anymore questions about my work message me please, happy to help. As for my stacking device, build one for next to nothing or buy one from amazon, some of you have asked whether stacking is worth it so i included a single image below to show you why stacking is necessary with a wide open aperture and or Microscope Objective.
Larger image is here worth a look : www.flickr.com/photos/sequentialmacro/7564475846/sizes/k/...