This Olivenit(1mm) is coverd in a little cave of light, white base mineral. It was difficult to get enough contrast in there. The best option was to use only a 5x Mitutoyo on MFT Sensor und HR-Modus for stacking.

Dieser Olivenit (1mm) versteckt sich in einer hellen, weißen Höhle. Um möglichst viel Kontrast zu bekommen, habe ich nur ein 5x Mitutoyo verwendet und einen Stack aus HR Aufnahmen gemacht, aus dem ich dann einen Ausschnitt genommen habe.

Panasonic G9

Raynox DCR-150 (tube lens)

Mitutoyo M PLAN APO 5x

1/50s

ISO 200

150 HR pictures at 80MP

Helicon C

I have recently been attempting to focus stack flowers to capture all the details. Nature is so beautiful and we really don't appreciate how intricate some things are.

I am currently using a manual focus rail and this image consists of 72 images stacked using a 30 days trial of the Helicon Focus 8 software.

Mostly rereading and yes, I am a lazy guy that piles read books next to the sofa.

Focusstack 28 Pictures (different methods combined in Helicon Focus)

In camera focus stack of 10 images

This young lady came into my yard last spring and hung around for a week but then departed. I was hoping for a longer relationship but it was not to be.

Here I tried to focus stack two images using a macro lens. This is not easy outside since any movement of the flower ruins the image. This day it was calm and the lady remained still long enough for me to adjust the focus and reshoot. Photoshop did the rest.

Up close and personal. Glendale, Missouri

21 deep stack using Zerene Stacker

OM-D, Zuiko 60mm + Raynox 250

Backlit 3D-printed object (translucent resin), focus stacking - 14 images, manual macro lens laowa 65mm, f2.8, illuminated by christmas LCD lights :-)

After rain,

Cerro Alto, Los Padres National Forest,

San Luis Obispo Co., California

Test Magic Lantern firmware

… on this day, the moon is 5.28 days old and 34.09% illuminated with a tilt of 155.258°. The approximate distance from Earth to the moon is 369,004.34 km and the moon sign is Aries

Shot of a Robber fly ( Asilidae sp. )

that i encountered on the mountain sessions this year

Tech info | 32 natural light exposures stacked at f4.5, exp.time 1/15sec, ISO200 Stacking Soft / Zerene Zerene Stacker

canon mp-e 65mm/f2.8 1-5x macro lens | Metabones Canon EF to Sony E Smart Adapter (Mark IV) | Sony A7

LARGE version!

Focus stack

An extreme close up of an allium, Denver Botanic Gardens

Seven images, focus stacked

...originally I didn't want to post this version and still not sure...

Backlit 3D-printed object (translucent resin), focus stacking - 22 images, manual macro lens laowa 65mm, f2.8

Panasonic S5 Sigma 105mm DG DN @ f2.8 / Focusstack 31 Pictures, Tripod, Natural Light

Romneya coulteri, This is a very large flower growing in our yard. The species is native to southern California and does not grow naturally this far north. But escapes from cultivation occasionally get established in SLO County.

Morro Bay, California

Olympus E-M1. 19 images, focus stacked in Affinity Photo.

Selective focus on bicolor Coreopsis flower. Home, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 27 July 2021

2023-24: Expert merit award out of 5553 entries in Photocrowd 'Macro Plants and Flowers' in August 2024.

2022-23: Expert merit award out of 5917 entries in Photocrowd 'A Single Flower' competition in January 2023. Judge commended out of 3145 entries in Photocrowd 'Two-toned Flowers ' competition in February 2023

Lampenschirm / Lampshade

Focus stack

Focus stack

Plover Scar narrow crop.

A very Merry Christmas to all who celebrate this festive season.

Hope you get what you want from jolly old Santa! He's is on the way!

(A 12 image focus stack of a battery lit Christmas ornament - about 4 inches across)

Shot using the Canon RP in-camera focus stacking feature, and combined and processed in Canon DPP4.

40 natural life stacked exposures of a harvestman.

X-Large 4K

Focusstacking from 6 pictures

Many older Australians will be familiar with this car. It was a very popular model made between 1958 and the year of my birth, 1960. This is the General Motors Holden FC. Price brand new back then was around 1,100 pounds depending on the model variant. Powered by a good old straight six of about 2.2 litres capacity.

This is a 1/18th scale model made by a company called Classic Carlectibles who specialise in Australian models, and is one of just 800 or so that have been released of this particular model. They make many older model Holdens and Fords, and as model cars go, they are very high quality with all doors opening and working steering and suspension. I love this one for the wonderful detail, right down to the hubcaps in glorious chrome, and even the tyre valves.

This is the "showroom" shot taken inside under LED lighting and is a ten image focus stack taken on the Canon RP using the 35mm macro lens. Processed in Canon DPP4.

More of the Hover fly as it shelters inside a fall crocus. This is a 5 image stack. Thank you for your comments and faves.

51 image stack using Helicon focus method A

This was one of the coolest caterpillars that I have ever found. Photographed at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia on 9/8/23.

It sure feels like fall is coming early this year to Alaska. The leaves are already turning colors at Reflection Lake.

Quite a bit of the Yellowstone looks other worldly, but the Fountain Paint Pot takes it to another level. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2020

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Sony A7RIII, Sigma 105 mm Macro

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Your comments and favs are appreciated and do not go unnoticed

I found this incredible fly yesterday. I managed to get some ok focus stacks of it before it started to wriggle around.

Here is a details shot of a wing www.flickr.com/photos/197602498@N04/54849011325

Helicon focus Pro

Adobe PS

Topaz Denoise AI

Olympus Em1 MKii

OM SYSTEM 90mm F3.5 PRO

GODOX V100

CJ DIFFUSER

For #FlickrFriday #Water

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Focus-Stacking mit Raynox DCR 250 aus 130 Aufnahmen, Stativ, Kabelfernauslöser, Helicon Focus

Couple of European orchard bees (Osmia cornuta - Megachilidae, Hymenoptera) in a flower of Magnolia stellata. In the garden (Belgium, Boom, 23 March 2023).

First fieldstack of the year. Live specimens. Image based on 116 exposures (fast method), assembled in Zerene Stacker (Pmax & Dmap).

Sony A6500 + Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x ultra macro apo; ISO-400, f/4, 1/640s, +0.7 step, natural diffused light.

Gear & method used: www.flickr.com/photos/andredekesel/8086137225/

Here is a new attempt. Focus stacking of a dandelion. Image was combined with 5 individual shots. Like it ?

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Hier mal ein neuer Versuch. Focusstacking eines Löwenzahn. Bild wurde aus 5 Einzelaufnahmen kombiniert. Gefällt es?

20 shots / 20 Bilder

Miniature landscape