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Finally getting a proper snowfall around here...just in time for me to be completely sick of winter.
A quick look at the radar told me that there was a possibility of a light show. I arrived about 20 minutes before the show and stacked some ice cairns to pass the time.
Those vajras are very good objects to exercise the process of focus-stacking in photoshop. Here´s another one
A refold of my older design, Stacked Propellers Tessellation. There is a similar pattern designed by Ilan Garibi, called Bagan or Pagodas.
NS 4124 leads intermodal train NS 28X eastbound through Johnstown, Pennsylvania, as it heads for the CP C signals.
8 HDR image stack - total of 24 images. HDR in photomatix, stacked in Photoshop and retouched in Lightroom 5. More of an experiment than anything else the combination of stacking and HDR has made the fruit look almost plastic.
So, I went back into my friend's cellar at Avalon Vineyard in East Pennard with the thought to photo-stack N. murinus. There's a load of rotten, blackened wood underneath a massive mixing bin in the winery cellar, and the more interesting springtails seem to like it there.
With the Neelidae I've watched, they scamper for a bit, then pause for around a second before starting off again. Ideal for stacking, if you're quick enough... (taking different focused photos of the same, hopefully stationary object before merging them all with software on the computer- Zerene stacker in this case).
What it means, is that there's a good chance of picking out more detail as you can use a higher fstop, with less depth of field. I probably could have gone higher but then there's less of a chance to use the one shots on their own. It's a juggling act.
But, and it's a big but, you also have to be very accurate, lucky and get your different, hand-focused shots all done in under a second of an animal around 0.7mm big that's usually running away from you! In the pitch black of a cellar, with a torch. And this was at around x20 magnification....
As far as I know, this is the first time anyone has managed (or wanted!) to stack N. murinus! But I must say, I'm kind of chuffed with the results. Still not perfect, but it's a learning curve...
As an example of extreme stacking, here's a shot of Megalothorax minimus I took a few weeks ago, which would come up to the top of N. minimus's legs. At only 0.25mm big, again, no-one has been daft enough to attempt to stack one before, either, as far as I know.
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8 photos stacked in CS5.
( The stack in-camera did not handle very well the antennas of the insect .)
Noise reduction in Dfine2.
A beach event was coming up and a stack of plastic chairs was sitting in the sun, waiting to be deployed...
The party rental place calls them “White Café Style Chairs, made for year round outdoor exposure. Plastic stacking chairs are great furniture at cafés, bistros, poolside dining and outdoor restaurants. Commercial grade plastic resin furniture is made to last with constant public use...”
A stack of 4 images to reduce noise, how to on our blog:
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Well this is going to be one of my little projects this Winter, focus stacking Collembola, with this I decided to try using my 1.4x teleconverter and my MP-E at x5, so in all this was a x7 magnification handheld focus stack of just 6 images at F/6.3. I'm hoping to get deeper with the stacks as the Winter goes on.
It really is a very hit and miss affair with these guys, sometimes they will stay perfectly still and then sometimes they are always moving, especially those antennae, but I was reasonably fortunate that this female stayed put for just long enough, anyway an ongoing project and with the numbers increasing I think it quite achievable, the main thing is refining the technique :o)
I hope everyone in the Southwest has a safe day, apparently going to get very wet again and then I hear that next week temps are going to drop to -15C, well at least it will slow down the Globular Springtails a bit LOL :o)
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Piled High and Deep. A heaping pile of snow.
Here in the snow belt they have to use front end loaders to clear snow. they also have to truck it out to a park.
This pile looks to be 40’+
Average snow fall is 10’-12’
Top tier is chocolate cake filled and crumb coated in vanilla butter cream. Bottom tier is vanilla cake filled and crumb coated in raspberry vanilla butter cream
Found this cool little spot where tradition was too stack rocks i'm assuming.
Canon AE-1 Program. Hawaii.
Negative Stacking
I used to do quite a bit of negative stacking in the enlarger in the 90s when I had my own darkroom and an enlarger that would take a 4X5 negative. I was gifted with an A4 LED light tablet for my birthday and decided to try a bit of negative stacking to see if I could reprise that technique in my repertoire.
1st attempt at focus stacking, 50mm at f2.8 to blur the background but stack of 4 images with differing focus points in an attempt to get some depth of field on the flower heads.
South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.