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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.
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.
Tiny drops of dew on a leaf. Shot with the Schneider Componon 50mm reversed on tubes. Stack of 20 photos.
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.
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.
After shooting some stacks of other bugs I've found in that morning, I've returned to the place where the small blue was still waiting for the sunrise.
This time 44 natural light exposures at ISO 200, same equipment.
Boîte et allumette de l'Hotel Stella, Interlaken, Suisse. Macro 1:1. Focus stacking de 53 images avec Zerene Stacker. Canon M5, objectif Tamron SP 60mm F/2 Macro Di II, ISO 100, F/8.0, éclairage 2 x Ulanzi VL49.
... sorry for the dust & spots...just test.
40 photos, stack is taken through the glass of the microchip.
4000px version
