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I had recently found this beautiful field of sunflowers. The last days here were quite rainy and as yesterday evening the clouds started to break up a bit I drove back to this field. It was great! before taking this shot I had plenty of different cloud formations in the sky and good light. But as so often theses days finally I end up editing the last picture of a shoot. This is so often the case when I'm shooting during sunset. I usually have enough time to get the whole magic light and sunset, I try around with a couple of compositions and then just before packing up my gear or even after packing up I setup again for a last shot. And in 3 out of 4 shoots this will be the picture I like the most.
This field of sunflowers also was a big challenge in case of composition, it was not easy to find the right flowers for the first row, either there where to few and I had emply corners or it was to much. Here I think I got a nice distribution in the foreground :-) And I loved the dramatic sky as a contrast! Bad weather in germany sometimes also makes for a good shoot, but I'd really prefer the coast again :-)
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f/11+focusstacking (foreground shot ISO200 and f/6,7 to freeze motion)
3 exp Bracketing + DRI
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A Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) on dead wood on the floor in Surrey woodland. It kept still just long enough for a focus-stacked portrait.
-- Alpa Reflex Model 6 Camera (S/N 36xxx) -- 1956-1959
-- KERN-SWITAR 1:1.8/50 AR (S/N 920xxx)
Body weight = 631g
Taken with a Canon T2i/550D and Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens at f/5.6. 58 1/30-second exposures at ISO100 in a focus stack (DoF stack) were combined with Zerene Stacker using DMap mode. Shooting was done tethered to a PC using the Canon EOS utility. Focus stepping was done by pressing the live view ">" focus button once between each exposure in the stack.
Something cool and refreshing in this heatwave.
I love the colour and the way the water formed in such an even distribution of tiny hemispheres that magnify the petal detail.
Four image focus stack. Petal roughly 2cm long.
The ladybird Scymnus oertzeni (= S. melanarius) on a fir needle.
Ladybird length : ~ 2 mm
With thanks to Olivier Durand for providing the specimen.
Focus stack of 124 pictures
Microscope objective (Nikon achromatic 10x 160/0.25) on extension tubes
Tomatoes from our garden.
Macro isn't really my thing. Photoshop isn't really my thing either. But it was fun to learn something new for this week's challenge. This is a focus stack blend of six photos, each at a slightly different manual focus from front to back.
Focus stacking: 4 images.
Location: Blockhouse Point Park, Montgomery County, MD.
M. uniflora is a flowering plant devoid of chlorophyll. It survives by parasitizing fungi, commonly a small range of l hosts that are members of Russulaceae.
I wanted to try this technique for a while now. This is a combination of four different images. I focused on a different spot for each one, then merged them in photoshop pretty much the same way you do a pano.. It's all automated.. It's pretty cool, but it did come out a little goofy... Here is a video tutorial that I followed
View This Damn Huge to see the goofiness.
Valgus hemipterus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) female. Body length: 8 mm.
Studio stack of a living pupa found inside a dead cherry tree trunk. 15 shots combined in Zerene Stacker.
Agrilus integerrimus male
Body length : 7 mm
20.VII.2021
Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Arc 2000, Savoie, France
Captured on Alnus sp.
- Hand held in camera focus stack of 15 images
- Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
An experiment from a week or so ago. I took 5 shots, manual focus of this scene and stacked it so the woods in the back round would be in focus.
I think it worked out well.
For the first time in my memory we actually smelled the dead Velella a mile away from the beach. I saw in a Neighborhood post that it has been called The Great Stink of 2025. It's not THAT bad, but it is unusual. And has probably already dissipated in the past few days as the small animals dry.
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
Noting how many jillions of them are on this beach, one has to wonder how far they extend up and down the state's beaches. (I have read that they have been at least as far away as the San Francisco Bay, 220 miles north.)
This little hedgehog cactus is a perfect analogy for the Sonoran desert of the American Southwest. Spectacularly beautiful and dangerous for the unwary. This is a 7 image stack built with Helicon Focus software. Loads of fun to play with.
A soldier of Eciton sp., a large army ant from Ecuador (Ecitoninae).
Focus stack based on 77 images, assembled using Zerene Stacker (Pmax & Dmap). Post production using Adobe Photoshop CS6. Canon 600D. Canon EF 100mm USM, ISO-100, F/6.3, 1/160 sec. 1 Flash, diffused with tracing paper.
Es ist Wochenende... einfach mal abhängen...
Heute war es mal nicht so windig wie bei uns üblich und der kleine Kerl hatte wohl keinen Bock was zu machen und war am chillen. So hab ich es geschafft eine brauchbare Serie mit Stativ in den Kasten zu bekommen.
17 Aufnahmen - gestackt mit Helicon Focus (Methode C) es waren nur sehr leichte Retuschen um die Fühler nötig. Hat wirklich brav still gehalten. :-)
First posting with new camera, new software and new technique.
The flower was rescued from garage that is used to winter some of our flowers. Not bad for January in Minnesota.
TMI Section:
I used focus stacking software, Helicon to stack 20 images to get extended depth of field. I am happy with the results with one major exception. It appears that I did not start the series close enough to the camera; the front of the vase is not just out of focus it is all muddy.
On the image right out of Helicon before it was reduced for Flickr, cat hair can be seen in the foreground and background on the sheepskin.