Focus stack of 60 shot using Panasonic FZ1000 HS burst mode (50fps) Raynox 250, Helicon focus stacking software

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One of the blooms on my Christmas Cactus. It's amazing this year.

"Fuchsia Cluster #2" by Patti Deters. Four hanging flowers and buds make for a pretty piece of art. The pinkish red and lavender purple blooms are big, soft, and very attractive in hanging baskets. A slight variation on #1 in this series. Please enjoy more of my (botanic and more!) images at patti-deters.pixels.com.

500GB Hard drive with the lid off. Illuminated by Blue LED. 16 images focus stacked

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2021-147 Very Tiny Text - I didn't realize the shadows cast by some of the text on the twenty dollar bill were actually made up of more text.

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A Salmon Caviar Tree???

18 stacked photos.

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Prototype of IBM POWER3-II

Sandblasted and painted Testtubes.

Light setup:

1 Flash with 6cm Honeycomb from the right flashing into the tubes.

1 Flash with 20cm Softbox at front.

PP: Focus-Stacked from 20 exposures

Prototype of IBM POWER3-II

14 images auto-aligned and auto-blended in Photoshop. According to PhotoPills calculator the DOF was 0.29 inches. Looks like I may have missed a couple of edges. Next attempt I'll shoot at f/11 which will have a DOF of 1.16 inches. A little more manageable.

Prototype of UltraSPARC T1

Agrilus graminis female

Houyet, Belgium, 9.VII.2021

Body length : 7.5 mm

- Focus stack of 39-63 images

- Olympus 60mm macro

- Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II

- High res mode

3 image stack

One of my focus stacks that did not work- interesting result though.

Brian V

Prototype of UltraSPARC IV+

On the Ford Gold mine trail, Montgomery County, MD.

(focus stacking: 6 images)

32-Frame Focus Stack

proceessed in Affinity Photo, focus stack of 10 images

Harmonia axyridis - 3rd instar larva

Panasonic GX 80 + 2.8/30 mm Makro + HeliconFocus + LR6

12 JPG shots with increasing manual focus. Aligned and merged in Photoshop.

Focus stacking via photomerge in CS5. I used re-focusing rather focus plane micro movement. There are 7 photos in the stack. Finer focusing and using higher aperture would have been better. I used f5.6. Plus, I used the 24-105mm which is not a macro lens. See the next two photos for example of the original focus plane.

Acrididae

saranče

My experiment on focus stacking techniques.

Achieved this photo by combining 10 images shoot with 50 mm prime lens.

Day 265 / 365 (#631)

105mm @ f/8.0, ISO100 1/100s

Harmonia axyridis 3rd instar larva

This is my first attempt at macro Focus stacking.

Close view of a Creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea) flower. 76 images shot with Canon 50D and MP-E 65mm at 3.75x using 0.08 mm steps with a Cognisys StackShot and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Lit with MT-24EX @ 1/32 with diffusion gels.

32 stacked photos

Only my third attempt at focus stacking, this one took 14 images to make. It shows aphids on a plant that is producing a bud that is about to flower. Aphids are very interesting biologically because of their many symbioses, but also because some species have been doing the GMO thing for a few million years, having achieved the ability to synthesize carotenoids by lateral gene transfer from a fungus. They also engage in cloning, producing eggs by parthenogenesis. They are able to survive on plant sap because of an obligate endosymbiosis with a specialised bacterium. All in all, rather cool critters.

12 frame focus stack using helicon remote to control the camera from an android phone and ZereneStacker for stacking the images