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I finally found something that stayed still long enough for me to take several photos for a focus stack.
This is the first one I've tried with the mpe65 lens since I've had it.
It's 4 images taken at 2.5x and focus stacked using Zerene.
Not the best one you'll ever see, but hey, you gotta start somewhere :P
HFDF
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Stacking …. Many views may know what this term means but I’ll give my version so all will know. Stacked photos are more than one photo taken with a different focal point. In the case of this image there were 5 photos taken at different focus points. There are programs that will combine all the images using the sharpest points from all the images to combine one final image with the detail focused.
I’m glad from the last posting no one asked me what plant that was….. I don’t know, I was concentrating on capturing the images and not writing down the plant names. These were captured in the Colorado University greenhouses. I hope to get back again soon to correct some of my errors in shooting and further fine tune my stacking technique. This was taken with my new macro 70-180mm but not at the macro setting (1:1) I was probably about 1:4 ratio for this image.
Walk through Borrego Badlands to Seventeen Palm Grove
Near Arroyo Solado
Anza Borrego Desert Park
California, USA
Ben Stack and the River Laxford, Sutherland at dawn.
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Canon eos 60D + Tamron 17-50 f2.8 inversé @17mm + Flash Venus KX800 F10, ISO 800, 1/250eme, Stack de 41 clichés sur rail Velbon Super Mag Slider assemblés avec Photoshop CS6. Grossissement final environ 4,5:1
Camera: Canon F-1
Lens: Canon FD 50 mm f/1.4 SSC
Film: Ilford PanF Plus 50
Exposure: 1/250 sec and f/2.8, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
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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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...”
Final upload for tonight, just tried a five image stack of a Damselfly I found at Wollaton today, worked fairly well, I think i will get the hang of CombineZP eventually, I hope you all like this, I should have been in bed by now, back at work tomorrow and a really early rise (4:30am), will try and catch up tomorrow :)
... the height is round about 15 mm
Macro 1:1. Focus stacking. Sony A7II (ILCE-7M2) with Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 DI Macro 1:1 VC USD (F017E). Wide open shot f/2.8.
Used camera/lens combination and focus stacking equipment --> Focus Stacking Equipment.
The stacker arrives, but he was slowing, and then he also stopped a short distance later This is on the UP LA Subdivision in Riverside.
Stacked chairs in a second hand store.
Minolta XD-7
Minolta MD 50mm 1:1.7
Ilford XP2 Super
scanned with a Minolta Dimage Dual II and Vuescan
This group is also some of my first two attempts with 'focus stacking. A couple are random photos that I had two similar images of that I then stacked in the software (Helicon Focus). The rest are from a IACC (local photo club) workshop with light boxes and rock quartz slices that I did repeat images of (tripod used) with changes to the F-stop to change (or expand) the focus via DOF. I then processed the groups to see what additional focus depth might appear. The software also has a 3-D tool that I like but have not managed to duplicate for viewing so far. The double images are a snapshot of one small portion of the 3-D workflow. Does anyone have experience or suggestions with 'focus stacking' or 3-D modelling that might be helpful to me and others out there? The ‘focus stacking’ is especially helpful for those of us that are trying macro and close up photography. Thank you.
Chan
A stack of 4 images to reduce noise, how to on our blog:
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Found this cool little spot where tradition was too stack rocks i'm assuming.
Canon AE-1 Program. Hawaii.
A focus-stacked shot with 60 layers spaced 0.07 mm apart, taken by Sophia, using our new automated wooden flexure stage.
Some more from Pyrmont shooting towards International Towers, Barangaroo and Cockle Bay Wharf.
This is a single frame image with about 20 images stacked again as per the previous images. These are 30 second exposures which give a smoother water but slightly more harsh highlights. Still looks alright to me.
Ben Stack and the River Laxford, Sutherland at dawn.
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