Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.

Wanted to try macro photography so picked up a reversal ring and mounted a 50mm lens on it. I know the pic isn't great but it's a beginning:-)

Olympus digital camera, Focus stacking

First attempt at image stacking. 12 images.

focusStack

five photos combined

Pilze

The circuit board of a broken hard drive - the board is 2" wide by 3 3/4" long.

Camera: D7000

Lens: Nikkor 60mm f/2.8

ISO: 200

f/8.0

1/30th

~ 15" from the center of the board.

Rivas, Nicaragua

Special thanks to Rachel Muelle and Beth Dorgay

These images where created by fairly new method, called FOCUS-STACKING. Each image is basically a "stack" of couple dozen (or hundred) images photographed with different focal distance where all focused areas are combined into one image.

Pilze

I took 13 photos (using a tripod) of this scale model.

With each photo I focused a tiny bit further away

Then I merged all 13 photos in Photoshop, so the scale model is sharp from back to front.

12-shot focus stack.

SONY SLT-A35 Sigma 70mm f:2.8 EX DC Macro

Focus Stacking

Orchis brûlé

Focus stacking first try. Fatal

Stack of 36 Images

This is my first effort at focus stacking.

First attempt at a fly macro

10 frame focus stack, flower approx 5mm long

SCHACH MATT Ich habe Schwarz gespielt und verloren, aber mein Gegner mußte sich im Endspiel anstrengen, denn nur mit Turm und Pferd noch zu gewinnen ist nicht einfach :-)

SONY SLT-A35 Sigma 70mm f:2.8 EX DF Macro

"Focus Stacking"

This is a stack of 136 photos. The spacing between photos is 200 microns. Stacked using Helicon Focus

2021-156 Blue Gold

Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The result of a 14 image focus stacking exercise.

Got it almost right this time but the lower "petal" is unfortunately slightly out of focus so another go is on the cards.

It's 2 years since this orchid last flowered.

This is an 9 image focus stack to improve the depth of field. 100mm lens, f4, iso 100, 1/125 sec exposure.

Rather large specimen of Araneus diadematus- the common UK garden orb web spider- sitting in a bonsai acer tree. Pic is focus stacked from 3 shots

Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.

My very first photograph using the technique of focus stacking.

The upper image is a single exposure taken at f4 focussed just on the lens cap. I deliberately used a wide aperture so that only the lens cap would be in focus. The lower image is comprised of 6 exposures at f4 focussed at different places from the lens cap to the hot shoe on top of the camera and then combined together in Photoshop.

Many thanks to John Gravett at www.lakelandphotohols.com for explaining how to do this in Photoshop. I look forward to using this technique for landscape and close-up photography.

2022-080 Graisins

Lumix Post-Focus plus Focus Stacking, no tripod

Houille (focus stacking).

Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.

empilement de 16 clichés( focus stacking)

A sundew (Drosera) trapped a golden lacewing in its tenticles. 57 pics stacked.

Materials from a school project in Evesham. Photos taken by students through the town and along the river were merged using the Focus Stacking tools in Photoshop. They were then printed out for use in a giant collage.

A composite image using images captured via the focus stacking functionality provided by the Magic Lantern Firmware add-on for Canon DSLR's.

Original stack was 10 x raw images

A male "snow flea" - Boreus hyemalis (Mecoptera) - frontal view

This special kind of scorpion fly is active as an adult only during the winter. It lives mainly in mosses and it can frequently be observed jumping on the snow.

Scale : The image is covering a field of ~4 mm

Technical settings :

- focus stack of 34 images

- microscope objective (Nikon achromatic 10x 160/0.25) mounted directly on the camera body (+30mm extention from the adapter)

A little pandemic, stuck-at-home macro experiment. Mistakes were made. ;)

Glencairn Whiskey glass, six images focus stacked.

It's sitting on a black microfiber cloth on top of a case for Apple AirPod Pros. The larger black material behind it is a trash bag ;)

My Sony A7RII with the Sony GM 24mm F1.4 lens is mounted on an Edelkrone StandONE and FlexTILT Head 2 with the Quick Release One.

Lighting is my desk LED light plus two LItraTorches with diffusers mounted on a Platypod Max with the Platypod Goosenecks.

Initial processing in Lightroom and Photoshop.