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Happy New Year!
Planning to be more organized this year.
I cleaned out some drawers and these are papers that can be discarded, I think I'll use them as scratch papers.
After some fantastic (not for photography) weather of late Iain and I had to contend with something far more typical for Scotland on a trip to the north west yesterday. The forecast had indicated sunny spells with the low potential of some rain and was pretty much wrong on both counts. We certainly got a good soaking in what turned out to be pretty persistent rain and patches of sunlight were few and far between. However, when we arrived at Loch Stack and the oft photographed bothy, I was pleased to find just enough light and some great clouds to capture this image.
Just playing around the other morning indoors. I picked a clover flower from the alley and put it in a glass and set up the tripod inside where there was no wind.
The image has been rotated as the flower kind of drooped over the side of the glass. I had run the flower under the tap to try to get some kind of semblance of dew, and took a few shots and the light was not very interesting, so I set up a small LED flashlight an aimed it at the bottom (which is now the right hand side.
The image is a result of 4 different focus settings, then loaded as a stack in photoshop.
I did make a simple selection of the background (which are my burgundy blinds) and darkened it to add a bit more richness to the background.
All in all I am quite pleased with how it turned out. The focus stacking was fun to play with, giving much greater depth of field than would have been possible without.
Shoot with an older manual focus 55mm micro nikkor at f 16
The waxing crescent Moon near the stars Castor and Pollux in Gemini, with Mars below, as the last of the winter stars set into the western twilight on a May night. This was May 16, 2021 from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. Capella in Auriga is at right. Procyon in Canis Minor is at left.
This is a stack of 7 images (all 8 seconds) for the ground to smooth noise, blended with one long 13s exposure for the sky, plus one short 0.3s exposure for the Moon, to prevent its disk from overexposing too much, especially with the haze present this night. All with the Canon R6, untracked, and adapted Sigma 24mm lens at f/2.8.
The stacks off the coast of Vik in southern Iceland are very picturesque. I used a big zoom to try to capture the power of the massive waves breaking on the beach.
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at sunset as a hail shower moves across.
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Contraption for handheld and fast stacking in the field.
Of course only for insects that are not skittish ....
The support where the insect sits does not have to be cut, but in many cases I cut it off. If the insect doesn't buzz off after cutting, you're likely to have a good chance of getting the stack made.
The left hand (1) holds the specimen (4) and rests on a metal tube (3), recovered from an old tripod, about 27cm long. The metal tube slides neatly over a metal rod (2). The rod (2) is 27cm long, sits about 6.5cm under the camera base, 1cm outside its left side and is firmly fixed under the camera (stuff from Wondlan). A second rod (5) carries a ‘magic arm’ with diffusor (6) over the specimen (absolutely needed in bright sunlight).
Shifting the subject goes as follows: i hold the subject in my left hand, between index and thumb. While shifting the subject through the focal plane, my left hand rests on the sliding tube. So left hand and black tube slide together over rod 2. This helps to gain full control over lateral movements that could destroy the composition. It also helps to make steadier - regular shifts.
It didn't take much exercise and this slider is a great help. However, it does add wheight to the camera, but it's a winner since this method doesn't require the need for much heavier tripods and sliding plate, etcetera.
A small rod (7) is placed under the contraption and serves as monopod (12cm); it gives better support to the camera by resting it on the right knee or any other support available.
UPDATE (January 2018) of this rig here: www.flickr.com/photos/andredekesel/8086137225/in/dateposted/
Before you start hunting it is best to train all this on a static subject.
It's also good to have all the camera settings right before bringing the subject in front of the lens. Usually camera settings are like this:
a) The camera is set to continuous shooting, the highest frame rate. The more the better. The Sony A6300 (or A6500) has 11fr/sec, the Sony A7R5 has 10fr/sec.
b) while pressing the button, the specimen is shifted through the focal plane. Because of this movement, you need to use shutter priority and set it to at least 1/160sec or even faster (if light allows). You can also use aperture priority, but then keep an eye on the shutter speed, it should be faster than 1/160sec.
c) With the Sony A6300, A6500 or A7R5 an ISO setting between 200 to 400 gives excellent jpegs. I only shift it higher than 100 if necessary, so only when the resulting aperture is too low 2.8
d) in general i try to get an aperture around f5 and exposure compensation at -0,7 to -1.
e) I shoot with the highest jpeg, and i am only interested in stacks with images of 6000x4000px. Usually the A6300's buffer fills up after 60 images. This means that a complete shift/stack with the A6300 needs to be made in less than 5 seconds. Which is perfectly possible. With the A6500 or A7R5 this is not a problem, the buffer is big enough.
f) So far I have used this technique with the Canon's 100mm & 60mm macro, and also with Sony's FE90mm macro and the Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2X macro APO.
Examples of images made with this setup in the first comment lines
Stacked [Whatever] Block. I say [Whatever] because it could be so many different things. Bolts of fabric, books, bricks... Of course turning it sideways gives you a whole slew of new choices! You can read more and find the tutorial to download over here.
Processed with Cinestill's Df96 Monobath.
Camera: Pentax 645
Lens: Pentax SMC-A 75mm f2.8
Film: T-Max 100
BNSF 7524 heads east out of Marceline, Mo. with a long stack train as it passes under one of the few remaining signal bridges along the BNSF Marceline Subdivision.
Taken from iPhone 7+ video time lapse. Exposure; 17x15s, lightened in Photoshop. Of note, the greenish colors at left might be from combining thin yellow clouds against a dark blue sky. Also, in the right upper corner, you can see how the colors of sunrise transition from dark red to light yellow as the clouds move eastward. Gaps in the cloud structure are due to the 15 second interval between captured frames.
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Taken at Minions high up on Bodmin Moor there are extensive mining remains throughout the area here . This one I am sure is the engine house to drive the stamps of Wheal Jenkin along with the stack of where the boiler house would have been .
Established (as a tin mining site worked by shallow shafts and an adit) when it was taken up in 1824, and worked by the Cornwall Great United Mining Association (London) between 1836-7.
A steam engine was erected at Wheal Jenkin in October 1836 to work 40 head of stamps, and 21 heads of new water-stamps were also under construction to handle the ore from the Cornwall Great United Mines.
In the 1870s Wheal Jenkin it was acquired by the Marke Valley adventurers of the adjoining Marke Valley Mine. In 1881, the mine was re-opened as part of Marke Valley Consols Mines Ltd. Working for tin, the former Whim shaft was re-opened as Bellingham's shaft, and, in 1886, the Holman's shaft (South Caradon) 70" engine was re-erected in a new engine house.
The mine closed in 1890 and there are no records of any attempt to re-prospect the lodes during the early years of the 20th Century. The Liskeard and Caradon Railway passes through the site.
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at dawn.
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The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at dawn.
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This is the first time I've done a focus stack that hasn't involved a macro lens and tiny fungi or lichen, but I really liked this moss covered root reaching out to the world and I happened to have my tripod with me for once, so I thought I'd give it a quick go. It was too cold to hang around for long though.
"New Museum of Contemporary Art building", designed by Japanese architects SANAA.
NYC
"The anodised aluminium mesh exterior covering the building's six stacked rectangular boxes emphasises the ramshackle colour of its Lower East Side surroundings. It provides a great surface for attaching artworks, fridge magnet-style, like the Ugo Rondinone rainbow sign “Hell, Yes!” (2001)."
stack of filters, ICM
Not sure if I prefer this one or the no movement one to be fair but I usually go for the least expected so ...
HMM
224 came through recently with a heritage leader - a tattered looking Lackawanna. Maybe this is moreso the heritage of this unit's paint scheme? I also found it curious to see blocks of bare tables in between stacks. Strange train makeup but I'm sure it made for easy switching somewhere or the containers were just as empty being ran back west. Shrug.
04-21-2019